Featured game: Survive! Escape from Atlantis

I’ve only discovered this game within the past couple of months yet it became a fast favourite in our household. Survive! Escape from Atlantis is a cut-throat game made for competitive, ruthless gamers like me. Some revisions of the games have been made since its debut in 1982 including game title and rule variations. Although I’ve played tabletop games for years now, I’m still surprised I haven’t come across it earlier. Let me explain why this game is awesome and is still kicking around 32 years after its release.

Survive! Escape from Atlantis' 30th Anniversary edition released 2 years ago
Survive! Escape from Atlantis’ 30th Anniversary edition released 2 years ago

Residents of Atlantis must flee the slowly sinking island. There are some boats available to take you to safety but watch out! There are horrors lurking in the ocean. Sharks that will swallow up any swimmers around, whales that’ll smash through boats in its path, and sea monsters who don’t discriminate: destroy all. Your goal is to save your people and send the other players’ people to a watery grave.

Survive! Escape from Atlantis board setup
Survive! Escape from Atlantis board before we sink this island. During setup, players alternate putting down their players on island tokens and boats in the water.

To make things more interesting, your citizens of Atlantis are weighted. This means your people, if saved, can be worth between 1 to 6 points depending on what number is etched at the bottom of the meeple. Only during the setup and tallying points phase are you allowed so turn over the meeple tokens and see their points value. It’s easy at first to try to remember where you placed each person, but partway though, pure chaos ensues and makes it a lot more difficult to memorize who is more important to save.
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This game is loads of fun and easy learn (although you might want to think twice on how vicious and aggressive to play with younger players)! It’s a great selection for those who want a fairly fast game and/or want to sit down with some buddies and some drinks. I know every time I play, bursts of laughter are common when we try to redirect sea creatures towards other players.

Survive! Escape from Atlantis: a game where mercy is futile and causing mass genocide is encourage. Pick up this must have game and its expansions at our store!

Survive! gameplay: end of game
Game over, man! Game over! Green just got decimated. Game end is determined when the volcano tile is revealed. Only people who are safe on a surrounded island are worth points

 

Review: Ticket to Ride 10th Anniversary Edition

‘Ticket to ride’  is a common gateway to Euro games for those who have previously only played classic Western family games like ‘Monopoly’, or completely unfamiliar with tabletop entertainment altogether. ‘Ticket to Ride’ (TTR)’s popularity is due to the fact that it’s family friendly, easy to explain, and fast to learn. Its re-playability is fairly high as there are different route combinations that would change players’ strategies, and a variety of expansions to mix it up. This year is TTR’s 10th year anniversary. To celebrate, an anniversary edition was released. This will be a review on just the latest edition rather than the game play.

Ticket to Ride 10th Anniversary Box Art
Sleek box art

We recently played TTR Anniversary Edition with our friends and their kids (ages 11 and 14) . I was highly impressed of the player pieces. They come in individual player tins with such intricate train tokens. For example, red was a circus train with giraffe heads poking out from the top of each freight cars, and black was transporting coal in open back carts.

Ticket to Ride pieces
Yellow Player’s Tin with train pieces inside

The physical quality of the board was the same as the other releases but the map on the board was more colourful and detailed than its original counterpart. Additional routes were included from the 1910 USA expansion to make it more interesting.

mid-game shot
mid-game shot

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Full Board
Go home green train, you’re drunk.

I feel this set is a must have for TTR fans. Special editions like this are made year of their anniversary only so pick up a copy before they sell out!