Sometimes this falls shorts and the nearer player can make it back with something, but at least they couldn’t take more! Once divers have picked up their treasures it’s a race to get back to the sub without running out of air! When you land on a ruin chip you may pick it up and keep it in front of you without looking at it’s value. Deep Sea Adventure’s box is jam packed with cardboard and wooden bits that you’ll set up in a semi-freeform manner (no “board” in this board game). Since the path is constantly changing, having multiple rounds does make a lot of sense, so I appreciate that in this game.

Compounding the impending doom is the fact that your movement is slowed down for each piece of treasure you hold. No two divers can share the same space, so you’ll leapfrog over people, meaning you can and will move more spaces that the total you roll. If everyone worked together, there would definitely be enough oxygen to get to the end - provided nobody picks anything up along the way. Sure, there’s some luck mitigation by having the ruins tokens decrease your movement ability, but you might see some players confounded by the compounding luck elements of both, simultaneously.This is a very direct sequel to the first scenario, featuring many of the same cards, and another Villain drawn from the. The push your luck factor of the game probably errs a little far to the luck side for some player’s tastes. You decide whether to claim the treasure you land on, and if you do, you replace it with a generic space token, so everyone still has to include this space on their descent, or ascent back up.

All of the treasure pieces taken each round shrink the game space so the big points become even more easy to obtain as the game progresses. It’s not obvious the dice are d3’s, and a lot of people I’ve played with have been surprised to discover this after a few rolls. Game contents : 48 Artefact Chips, 6 Explorer Pieces, 1 Submarine Board, 1 Air Marker and and instructions. A group of adventurers got together on a submarine to try and gather the treasures that sleep at the bottom of the sea.After a few last checks, it was time to leave the vessel and hunt for treasure - and make it back alive.