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Into The Black: Boarding Party

Breach the airlock, blow the doors, board an enemy star ship, loot and plunder, complete your objectives and survive! Into the Black: Boarding Party is a semi-cooperative space pirate dungeon crawl with a hidden traitor element. You are a fierce band of space pirates who have boa...

Players

1-4

Time

90-120

Age

13+

Weight

3.33

Rating

6.80

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Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation, frequent interaction, and limited emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.0

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation, frequent interaction, and limited emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

Into the Black: Boarding Party has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, availability of expansions, deep strategic depth, and scalability. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with multiple paths to victory and variable setups. The expansions add new content and gameplay elements, enhancing the replay value. Players have room to improve their strategy over time, discovering new tactics and strategies. The game adapts well to different player counts without compromising its appeal or balance. While it may take some time to learn, the easiness to learn score is still within a reasonable range. Overall, Into the Black: Boarding Party offers a fresh and engaging experience with high replayability.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Into the Black: Boarding Party is 6. The game has a notable but not exclusive impact of random elements on the game outcome. While there is some room for players to influence or mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions, luck still plays a significant role. The game has a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with neither element dominating the outcome.

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Breach the airlock, blow the doors, board an enemy star ship, loot and plunder, complete your objectives and survive! Into the Black: Boarding Party is a semi-cooperative space pirate dungeon crawl with a hidden traitor element. You are a fierce band of space pirates who have boarded an enemy vessel, set on accomplishing your mission while each pirate has their own secret goal to fulfill. Explore and loot the vessel of its bounty, fend off a seemingly unending wave of enemy defenders and encounter a potentially lethal series of events around every corner; All this while keeping morale high as the clock ticks down to your potential capture. Be wary of the the traitor lurking among you, out for personal glory at the expense of the rest of the crew! Will you make it off the ship with all of your goals accomplished and your crew intact? Find out in Into the Black: Boarding Party!

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Designers

1
James J Campbell

Artists

2
James J Campbell Jared Sanford

Publishers

1
I Will Never Grow Up

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