Survive The Island is a cutthroat game in which players race to evacuate their adventurers — especially those of a high value — from a sinking island to maximize their score.
An island made up of forty hex-tiles is slowly sinking into the ocean as tiles are removed from the board. Each player controls ten people (valued 1-5) that they try to move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island's volcanoes finally erupt. Players can either swim or use rafts to travel, but must avoid sea serpents, kaiju, and sharks on their way to safety.
But your meeples aren’t all the same. Each has a number from 1 to 5 on the bottom, representing the number of points they are worth if rescued. Players can note these numbers during initial placement, but can’t look during the game.
On your turn you’re given 3 movements, either of meeples across land or rafts across water. Use them wisely!
Then rising waters occur, removing one of the island tiles, leaving only water. When an island tile is removed, the player flips it to see if they should take an immediate action (like spawning a new sea creature) or if they are given a one-time ability they can use later in the game, like having a friendly dolphin move you extra spaces.
Finally, you roll the creature die and move the baddies accordingly. These monsters can knock meeples out of the game, losing those points for good.
The game ends when there are no adventurers left to rescue, or a 3rd volcano erupts. Count up points on the bottom of your rescued meeples - highest points wins!
Survive the Island is a straightforward, easy to learn game and a light-hearted one. One thing to note is that although your main goal is rescuing your own meeples, there is a bit of “take that” in the process. After all, when you have to move the monsters, you aren’t going to send them after your own meeples!
Sounds fun, right? You can enjoy it right now on Board Game Arena by clicking the link below and discovering all the details before engaging in a game:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=survive
And it's all thanks to the game designer Julian Courtland-Smith and the whole Zygomatic publishing team that you can enjoy this title on the platform!
Let's also note that the game was fully developped by darhf who made an excellent job again. You can play it from your phone, tablet or computer with ease thanks to the level of care that has been put into this port.
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