Deep Sea Adventure
About
Watching your friends drown has never been so much fun.
Press your luck attempting to dive the deepest and retrieve the most treasure before your air runs out. Make it back to the surface and you collect your points, run out of air and you get nothing.
Thoughts
Tim:
4/5 Very Good
Multiple game mechanics really make this shine over other press your luck or racing games. The shared oxygen supply, the jumping over other players, and the six sided dice with only the number 1, 2, and 3 all combine to make each round of this game a nail bitter. Most games I've played have someone missing the boat by only 1 or 2 moves giving each run a lot of tension.
Everyone that plays this game dies the first time. There is just something difficult in determining the odds that seems to trip you up convincing you that you should go just a little further, or take a bit more treasure. It's rare to find a game that makes you take such a hard second look and attempt to reevaluate the odds.
About the only negative I can see is that it really takes 4 players to shine.
Laura:
4/5
What a simple but pressure driven game! The dice rolls create an extra element of continually second guessing your moves and wondering if you'll make it back to the boat. While it isn't the most pleasant game for people who like to win and press their luck, it is very good for what it is - something exciting but also simple.
Trivia
- Someone on BGG made a "AI Player sheet" to add players to make this fun for 2 players. It must be good when people want to play this even when no one else is around.
9-20-2021