Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Ocean Pods is a 2 to 5 dice drafting game for 2 to 5 players. You are a Marine Biologist with research objectives to achieve for points.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Semi-Cooperative Game
Players share some objectives while retaining individual victory conditions.
Events
Triggered events alter the shared state, rules, or available choices.
Resource Queue
Resources enter an ordered queue and become available as it advances.
Take That
Direct negative effects at selected opponents.
Read the full game description
Ocean Pods is a 2 to 5 dice drafting game for 2 to 5 players. You are a Marine Biologist with research objectives to achieve for points. To do this players must draft dice resources from various Oceans such as Krill, Cephalopods (squid & Octopus), Crustaceans (Crabs & Lobsters), Fish and Pinnipeds (Seals). These resources are exchanged to attract Whales and Dolphins to your pod by paying the resource cost for the animal cards in the open pod deck. However each turn the boats move to different Oceans blocking your options and plastic pollution leaks into the sea. Too much Plastic and the game will end. Players have to work semi-cooperatively to clean the plastic or they all lose. Should you sacrifce a turn to clean the Ocean? In this beautiful game only one player can win but all could lose! —description from the publisher