The 7th Continent is an exploration, storytelling game. This is a brief review of The 7th Continent Board Game.
Title: The 7th Continent
Year Published: 2017
Designer: Ludovic Roudy, Bruno Sautter
Publisher: Serious Poulp
Players: 1-4
Game Time: 5-1000 mins
Set-up Time: ~5 minutes
Ages: 14+
Theme: Alternate Early 20th Century
Mechanisms: Hand Management, Story Telling
How to win: Cure the curse/s
Game Description
It’s the early 20th century. You have decided to sail back to the newly discovered seventh continent to attempt to lift the terrible curse that has struck you since your return from the previous expedition.
The 7th Continent Round-Up
Wow, what a game!
After sorting out all of the cards the box looks a bit intimidating… ~800 cards with seemingly no order to them at all!
But you’re basically told which ONE card to start with and the rest set themselves up as they go. The included dividers make it easy to find the cards you need to get to quickly… Although unsleeved, you can whiten the tops of them as you’re flicking through.
So the gameplay itself is very simple. Move, flip a card, do a thing, get cards to do other things. It doesn’t sound like much but as you’re building out the map and this story unfolds you really get into what you’re doing.
There are only a few different ‘scenarios’ in the box but as cards are randomly (but deliberately) placed game to game so there is replayability there. The equipment you find vs the obstacles you’ll encounter will make you play and think differently when replaying a scenario.
But I find this game difficult to review because it’s more about the story than the mechanisms, but the gameplay itself is strong.
Just go and experience it for yourself 🙂
Rating
An excellent game with only the length of each mission knocking it down from a ‘9’.
I give it 8/10
The 7th Continent Solo Play First Impressions September 2017
This is a quick video overview after playing my first solo game. It includes a brief overview of the rules, then I give my thoughts on the game.
The 7th Continent Kickstarter Unboxing
A quick unboxing after receiving the game from Kickstarter. What do you get and what is the component quality like?
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