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2019 Ranked #7,998

Adventure Games: The Volcanic Island

A cooperative story game has students explore a volcanic island, combine items, solve puzzles, and uncover mysterious events. Decisions change the story path permanently, but multiple resolutions invite the group to revisit the adventure.

Thematic Games Puzzle Narrative Choice / Paragraph Cooperative Game Series: Adventure Games (Kosmos)

Players

1-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.2/5

Rating

5.98

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Explore places, combine items, and experience stories in Adventure Games, a series of co-operative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles, players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play.

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Explore places, combine items, and experience stories in Adventure Games, a series of co-operative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles, players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play. Working together, players explore common areas, talk to people, look for clues, and combine various items to reveal the secret of the story. Depending on what decisions the players make, the course of history changes and there is no going back! Unlike the co-operative EXIT: The Game series, titles in this series focus on the telling and discovery of the story with no time pressure. That said, many different paths can be experienced during play, with more than one correct resolution to the story waiting to be discovered. Each title consists of three chapters, each taking about 75 minutes to play. Nothing is destroyed, so the games can be played multiple times. In The Volcanic Island, you slip into the roles of four students on a volcanic island who face mysterious events. Like a thriller, you need to solve puzzles, make decisions, track traces, and analyze and use objects. You will experience a story together. Gameplay is variable and different in each group. Admin note: The first edition of the German edition of The Volcanic Island contains an error for which KOSMOS has released a PDF correction that you'll find in the files.

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All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–4
Play time
75 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.2/5
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Credits

Designers

3
Matthew Dunstan Chihiro Mori Phil Walker-Harding

Artists

4
Johanna Rupprecht Javier Salas Maximilian Schiller Folko Streese

Publishers

1
KOSMOS

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