Head a billion years into the future in this collaboration between Monte Cook Games and Lone Shark Games. The Ninth World: A Skillbuilding Game for Numenera is a card game for 1-5 players who explore the Ninth World in search of strange creatures and cryptic artifacts. Based on the incredibly popular roleplaying game from Monte Cook Games, players take on the roles of clever Jacks, stalwart Glaives, and powerful Nanos to explore the mind-bending world of Numenera in competitive, cooperative, and solo games. The game takes about 30 minutes to an hour to play in any of these modes. Gameplay is an innovative blending of technology tree advancement, bidding, and deck building.

The gameplay of the skillbuilding game is enhanced by the Ninth World playmap, available separately.