Themeborne | Escape The Dark Sector | Board Game | 1 - 4 Players | Ages 14+ | 45 Minutes Playing Time

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It’s a linear experience because it relies entirely on a limited amount of chapter cards that players will eventually get through. Confined to the detention block of a vast space station, you and your fellow crewmembers embark on a desperate mission to find your ship and escape.

If doing so would exceed the ammo capacity of the weapon, take only as many as are needed for it to be fully loaded. The component quality is very nice, and the graph used as health counters really solidifies the theme. Resting in Dark Castle presented players with an easily exploitable mechanic that caused harder combat encounters to drag on until players either won, or got so bored that they accepted defeat. Players start with 12 health, and with 12 mission cards and 1 boss to get through, you watch it tick steadily down over the game and if 1 of the crew falls, the mission fails for everyone.Remember, you win when you reach the end of the mission deck and defeat the boss, but if any crewmember is killed the game is over and you all lose!

Combat occurs when a chapter card instructs players to do so or when players have the option to start a fight. From a game design point of view Escape the Dark Sector manages to strike a near perfect balance between providing the solo player a tactical decision space and being subjugated to the whims of Lady Luck. You wake supine on a cold floor with memories of pain etched into your mind and bruises painting your body.IMPORTANT — If a player chooses shoot (Flank Attack) during the Flank Round, the subsequent normal round of combat can be either Ranged Combat or Close Combat, it is up to the players to decide as normal. Strategizing who draws each card is a good idea because the player who draws the card usually takes the most damage. The artwork and component quality are high and the expansion easily blends with the existing content. Gamer Network Limited, Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom, registered under company number 03882481.

This means that provided there is enough ammo left, each time your crewmember takes the shoot action you may choose how many Flame Ammo dice to roll: one, two, or three. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The main mechanism in Escape the Dark Sector is centred around rolling dice for performing skill checks and they are absolutely amazing, anyone who has played and enjoyed the dice featured in Seasons will feel right at home with these custom printed instruments of fate. For example, if your inventory is full and new item cards are drawn, you may use them immediately if applicable.Combat requires the players to either roll matching symbols in close combat, or ammo symbols in ranged. I have no personal experiences of tabletop gaming in the 1970s and ‘80s, yet I find myself feeling nostalgic about that period of gaming all the same. Escape the Dark Sector is a simple sci-fi adventure game with a focus on atmosphere, storytelling, and player cooperation. Escape the Dark Sector adds in range combat, and also a new flanking maneuver for some extra tactical leverage. This is a significant improvement on the scattered nature of the original game’s story, and helps players to enjoy a sense of progression as they complete each act.