Table feel
Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation, with high interaction frequency and limited emphasis on cooperation.
Rich game profile
Death Valley
Sunlight glaring through the windshield. Your favorite songs blasting through the speakers. Candy bar wrappers piled next to a warm drink in the cheap plastic cupholder. Your companion riding in the passenger seat, snapping pictures of landmarks as you settle into the hypnotic rh...
Players
1-2
Time
?-?
Age
8+
Weight
1.94
Rating
6.86
Should this hit the table?
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Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation, with high interaction frequency and limited emphasis on cooperation.
Teach
2.3
Teaching signal
Replay
3.9
High replayability
Interaction
3.7
Highly interactive
Scaling
4.5
Scales well
Strategy
3.8
Deep strategy
Control
3.0
Luck-sensitive
Replay value
The game Death Valley has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, availability of expansions, strategic depth, scalability, and moderate easiness to learn.
Luck profile
The final luck score for Death Valley is 6. The game has a moderate level of randomness impact, where random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. Players have some ability to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions, but luck still plays a significant role. The overall luck dependence is balanced, with a mix of luck and strategy influencing the game outcome. While luck does play a role, player strategy and decisions have a substantial influence on the game. Overall, Death Valley provides a good balance between luck and strategy.
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Sunlight glaring through the windshield. Your favorite songs blasting through the speakers. Candy bar wrappers piled next to a warm drink in the cheap plastic cupholder. Your companion riding in the passenger seat, snapping pictures of landmarks as you settle into the hypnotic rhythm of the road. But be careful as this fun road trip could get dangerous as you drive through Death Valley. Death Valley is a pocket-sized, push-your-luck, tableau-building game for 1-2 players, with each traveler striving to assemble the best mix of cards in their journey and scrapbook in order to win the game. Each turn, players choose whether to assign a card to their journey, or move cards from their journey to their scrapbook. Cards feature stars (points), special abilities (which affect the value and position of cards), and some interesting facts about Death Valley. Each card also lists a hazard: heat, terrain, flood or animals. Having three of the same hazard visible in their tableau causes the player to bust and lose all the progress in their journey. At the end of the game, players sum the stars in their journey and any additional points from card abilities to determine who wins. Death Valley was a top-three finalist in Button Shy's 18-Card Challenge: Design a game about a real life location.
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Designers
1
Kevin Ellenburg
Artists
1
Fachri Maulana
Publishers
1
Button Shy
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