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Mysterious Island

Mysterious Island

True Freedom Games · 2019
2–690–120 min7+ yrs2.0/5 complexity5.4 BGG4Co-op
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A Cooperative Game of Survival, Exploration, and Escape Loosely based on Jules Verne's novel "The Mysterious Island" In the early 1860s, a hot-air balloon carrying six friends, crash landed on an uncharted island in the South Pacific Ocean.

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A Cooperative Game of Survival, Exploration, and Escape

Loosely based on Jules Verne's novel "The Mysterious Island"

In the early 1860s, a hot-air balloon carrying six friends, crash landed on an uncharted island in the South Pacific Ocean. Together, they must craft, explore, and move during the day and fight off threats at night. Survivors will move across the island finding clues that will reveal story moments and help them how to escape the island. However, as they move toward their ultimate goal, time is running out, as a catastrophic event will unfold at the end of 30 days!

Mysterious Island is a cooperative survival game that uses an action point system for players to make strategic choices. In conjunction with those choices is the variability of cards drawn during the Day and Night Phases. These cards often will determine how players make their choices.

The Day and Night decks double as a "timer" for the end of game. Once they run out, the game is over and the survivors lose in catastrophic fashion. Of course, staying alive while searching for a way off the island is another adventure of its own.

The Craft and Explore decks offer the player ways to improve their skills and chance of survival. The 35 Craft cards will ALWAYS provide items to help survivors along their way. The 35 Explore cards have both positive and negative effects on the players depending what is drawn.

Out of the 130 cards used in a game, only 6 are doubles, which makes each game session very unique. These variables offer high re-playability and make the gaming experience different each time.

If you or someone you know love adventure games with elements of survival and exploration, give Mysterious Island a try!

—description from the designer

🔬 game anatomy
Complexity2.0 / 5
BGG rating5.4 / 10
Vibe
Co-op
Play time
90–120 min
Players
2–6
Recommended age
7+ yrs

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Mysterious Island is a exploration game, for 2–6 players, taking ~90–120 minutes, featuring action points. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Mysterious Island — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Mysterious Island support?
Mysterious Island is played by 2–6 players.
Q5How long does a game of Mysterious Island take?
A game of Mysterious Island takes about 90–120 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Mysterious Island for?
Mysterious Island is recommended from age 7.
Q7How complex is Mysterious Island?
Mysterious Island has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 2.0 out of 5.
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