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Willkommen im Dungeon

Enter, if you dare!

Once again we face a dungeon, adventurers and monsters, but this time the dungeon comes into play later, first we fight for the privilege to send the adventurer into the dungeon!

One adventurer for all is put on display and all his equipment in corresponding color is laid out next to him. Then you randomly stack five Success cards and each player puts down a summary card, white side up.

Then you play rounds comprising the phases Bidding and Dungeon: In the Bidding phase you either draw a card from the monster deck or pass your turn for the round. If you draw a card, you take it from the monster deck and either place it onto the dungeon stack – to be one of the monsters the adventurer must fight later -  or you put the monster down face-down and put one of the adventurers equipment pieces on it. If you are the last one in play for the round, you send the adventurer into the dungeon with the remains of his equipment. You add his Life Points to those from the equipment and then the monsters are resolved one by one. If a monster can be defeated with a piece of equipment it is set aside, otherwise it takes LP off the hero. If he survives, you take a Success card and a new round is prepared. If he does not survive, you as his player turn over your summary card to the red side. Would you have to do this a second time, you are out of the game. If you take the second success card or are the last one in play, you win instantly.

Well, this is definitely a somewhat different dungeon crawl, nicely irritating and unexpectedly strategic, provided you are familiar with the game and the cards.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Masato Uesugi

Artist: Paul Mafayon

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2015

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Adventure, dungeon 

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en fr nl jp

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Comments:

Strategic when you know the cards

This is an advantage when newcomers play, too

Good design and good components

Compares to:

Quick fantasy adventure games

Other editions:

Japanese from Oink Games, French, English, Dutch from Iello, Polish from Portal Games, Korean from BoardM Factory.

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0