Players
3-9
Time
30-60
Age
10+
Weight
2.12
Rating
6.32
Teaching signal
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
Luck-sensitive
Saboteur: The Lost Mines has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players frequently need to be aware of and react to others' strategies and turns. While there is some level of cooperation required, it is not the main focus of the game. Overall, the game has a strong interaction score.
Saboteur: The Lost Mines offers a high level of variability with its gameboard, allowing for different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, further enhancing replay value. The game offers deep strategic possibilities and room for improvement over time. The player interaction score is average. It scales well with different numbers of players without losing appeal or balance. The game is moderately easy to learn, striking a balance between accessibility and depth. Overall, Saboteur: The Lost Mines has a strong replayability score of 8.0.
Saboteur: The Lost Mines has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements like card draws and dice rolls play a significant role in determining the game outcome. However, players have substantial ability to mitigate the effects of luck through strategic decisions and planning. The game strikes a balanced mix of luck and strategy, making it suitable for players who enjoy both elements in a board game.
Saboteur: The Lost Mines is a board game inspired by the famous Saboteur card game. While it uses ideas of the basic game, the expansion, and the two-player game, it is also very different. In this game, players are divided in two clans; each clan contains loyal dwarves, selfish dwarves, and a saboteur, secretly working for the opposite clan. Players have their own pawn, and the dwarves must move over the paths in order to physically reach the four goal cards, one of which contains a sleeping dragon that you don't want to wake, so try to avoid that one, if possible. The (non-dragon) goal cards yield a variable number of points, depending on the displayed, but secret, treasure cards. Sabotage isn't performed against a specific player, but directly on the board by playing blocking path cards or adding tokens. In this way, the sabotage affects always all players, including yourself. As opposed to Saboteur: The Duel, path cards you play don't have to be linked to your own start card, which offers many more sabotage options. Even so, no player is ever out of the game, either temporarily or permanently. —description from the designer
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