Cutthroat Caverns
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Game Reviews
Marks are out of 10
We had an hour to kill on Saturday as we waited for the 7th person to show, so the 6 of us got this out.
Simple directions and quick fun game play.
Tons of strategy for those who like that kind of game. For those that do not get the strategy right …
Back-stabbing and ruthlessness are the order of the day in Cutthroat Caverns!
Cutthroat Caverns is played over 9 turns, each with a random encounter, essentially a game of ‘kill stealing’. Each round, any monster encountered will have a prestige value of 1 through 6.
The player that successfully jockeys for position and lands the killing blow gets the prestige value for the encounter. The player with the most prestige after the 9 encounters is the winner. If the players do not survive all 9 encounters, no one wins the game.
Other games have tried to bring the RPG dungeon ‘experience’ to a deck of cards and have succeeded thematically and mechanically. Cutthroat Caverns does so on an emotional level.
You will be transported to that fateful day, as a young idealistic RPG player with visions of Tolkien’s fellowship dancing in your head, when you suddenly come to the horrible realization that the other players may pose more of a threat than the creatures themselves.
The feeling of that moment is sustained and heightened all through gameplay. A unique combination of cooperative game play and opportunistic backstabbing.
Box contains:
- 94 Action/Attack/Item Cards
- 6 Initiative Cards
- 6 Character Cards (to track your health)
- 25 Oversized Encounter Cards
- 1 Monster Life Tracker
- 8 Glass Beads (2 Yellow, 6 Green)
- 1 Token Sheet
If you’ve enjoyed this product, why not try the Cutthroat Caverns expansion?
