Davy Jones' Locker: The Kraken Wakes

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Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to each other's actions frequently, but cooperation is not a major focus in the game.

Teach 2.4

Teaching signal

Replay 4.1

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.4

Scales well

Strategy 4.3

Deep strategy

Control 3.0

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to each other's actions frequently, but cooperation is not a major focus in the game.

Replay value

Davy Jones' Locker: The Kraken Wakes offers a high level of variability with its gameboard, expansions, and strategic depth. The game scales well with different player counts and provides a moderate level of easiness to learn. Overall, it has a strong replayability score of 8.15 out of 10.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Davy Jones' Locker: The Kraken Wakes is 6. The game has a notable but not exclusive impact of random elements on the game outcome. Players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is a balanced mix of luck and strategy.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

Something is lurking in the depths of Davy Jones’... You’ve heard the stories - ships being ripped in half by a giant creature, maelstroms swallowing ships into the sea, & dead sea creatures washing ashore with strange markings. The tides are changing, & not for the better. The stories have struck fear in even the most fearless of Captains! They have decided to band together & prepare for what evil may be waking. Choose your ship, make sail to the ports, & gather everything you can to ready your ship…before it’s too late! Davy Jones' Locker: The Kraken Wakes is a cooperative, pirate-themed game for 1-4 players split into 2 Acts. In Act 1, players will be using up actions to move around the map & upgrade their ship as much as possible before Act 2 begins. Exploring Ports, Visiting Markets, defeating Raiding Ships, Exploring Shipwrecks, & battling Naval Ships are just a few of the ways players can gain stat increases, gold, or equipment for their ships! Throughout Act 1, players will also encounter odd stories - pods of beached whales with strange markings, pools of red in the middle of the sea, & stories of ships being dragged down to Davy Jones' from nowhere... As the stories grow more present, so does the reason behind them: The Kraken! Once The Kraken wakes, Act 2 begins! Players will be sucked into a huge whirlpool & have to fight through the Kraken, its 8 tentacles, & ever-changing whirlpool currents. Ships will sink, but that doesn't mean they are out of the fight! Other players can rescue the stranded crew from the sea, allowing them to man parts of their own ship & keep pushing through the battle to send the Kraken back down to Davy Jones' Locker!

Mechanism

5

Action/Event Cooperative Game Dice Rolling Hexagon Grid Multiple Maps

Family

4

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