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2015 Ranked #19,348

Chernobyl

This cooperative survival game has rescue teams explore a nuclear plant, find survivors, and transport them to a heliport. Radiation and collapses threaten the mission, and any character death is a personal loss even if the group succeeds.

Adventure Environmental Action Points Grid Movement

Players

1-6

Play time

20-60 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

5.93

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?

A cooperative survival game where the group play as a rescue team inside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The main objective of the game is rescue the survivors spread across the whole plant while trying to avoid the radiation and the collapses.

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A cooperative survival game where the group play as a rescue team inside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The main objective of the game is rescue the survivors spread across the whole plant while trying to avoid the radiation and the collapses. It has a modular board with 22 rooms. The rooms start face down and the player should discover them one by one until they found the survivors, the walkie-talkies and the heliport. For winning the game the players should transport the survivors to the heliport. If a player's character dies during the game, he loses, even if the rest of the players achieve to win the game. The game also offers a competitive mode where the players should balance the team cooperation for being able to rescue the survivors with their self-interest for beating the other players.

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Play and group

Players
1–6
Best with
2–5
Play time
20–60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.0/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Gonzalo Emanuel Aguetti

Publishers

1
Yamat

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