'Ravine' play review that cooperates with everyone to challenge desperate survival to survive from a dangerous uninhabited island

" Ravine " is a game that allows passengers who crashed to desert islands by plane to collect items while exploring islands and survive while cooperating with each other until they are rescued with cards. Kickstarter gathered $ 31,677 (about 34 million yen) against the target amount of $ 7,500 (about 810,000 yen) and it was commercialized. The real thing of such "Ravine" reached the editorial department of GIGAZINE, so I actually played it.

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"Ravine" package looks something like this. Illustrations of an uninhabited island and an airplane crashing in the valley are drawn. The number of players is 3 to 6 people, and the target age is assumed to be over 10 years old.

The content consists of hemp bags containing instructions and tokens, 36 tokens (heartworms) of hearts, 1 token with bonfires, and 6 types of cards.

Heart's token was drawn with a heart mark painted black on the surface, and a heart mark written with cross marks on the back.

The tokens with bonfires are about twice the size of the heart's token. Also, when turning over the bonfire, the torch where the fire had disappeared was drawn.

There are 6 kinds of cards to use. Cards with maps and compasses on the back are " Forage " cards necessary for survivors to survive in the game. Food such as rabbits and fish, materials such as tree branches and stones are written.

" Craft (card)" cards are drawn on convenience items "stone yuri" "basket" "cabin" which can be made from the material of Forage cards collected.

One " Crafting Guide " distributed to players is a recipe that describes how many Forage cards you can collect and how you can get a Craft card.

Cards with airplanes and aerial maps are " Wreckage " cards. The surface is designed to mimic the ticket of the aircraft, with the name of the player and seat number of the airplane, along with the initial item, its effect, the number of times of use. The survivors who are thrown out on a deserted island must clench the items written on this Wreckage card and survive the uninhabited island until escape.

However, it is the wilderness of the desert island that stands in front of survivors. By pulling the " Night " card to the night phase various events will occur. There are quiet and nothing nights, even the night when you steadily scoop away the survivors' physical strength with heavy storms, and even the night when you feel like life will shrink with the call of supernatural something. However, by pulling "The Rescue" held in the left of the image, all the survivors can escape from the uninhabited island. The purpose of this game is to sustain the life without losing anyway, sometimes cooperating until pulling The Rescue.

Even if you successfully survive the night, players who have drastically reduced their physical strength will have a mental abnormality, so you must draw a " Madness " card and carry out the written mission This is a big feature of this game. For example, the card of the image below is "Blind Rage" (anger that forgets me), and the player who subtracted it must cover or close his eyes until the strength recovers.

Give players 1 Wreckage card and 1 Crafting Guide, and 6 Heart's tokens. Place 8 to 12 of the Craft card, Madness card, Forage card, and Night card in the battlefield. The more Night cards you put in the battlefield, the longer the number of days until escape, so you can adjust the difficulty of the game by the number of cards.

Next, we decide the physical strength of the player. Three out of six hearts tokens will face the table, and the other three will shake to the battlefield as if to roll the dice. The sum of the number of tokens table (black painted hearts) finally becomes the physical strength of the player. For example in the image below, since only 1 heart of the table has appeared, the heart is 4 in all.

The game started at once. At the beginning it starts from the "night phase", so turning one Night card turned "Heavy Rain (heavy rain)". Each player will lose 2 physical strength.

However, one of the survivors, Tarp (from the plane that crashed tarp was brought). Tarp is an initial item that protects only one player from weather events. Because the initial physical fitness was low, he protected us with Tarp in order to protect our suddenly becoming dying suddenly with heavy rain. In this way, it is the heart of this game that not only uses items for themselves but also uses it for others for support while supporting each other.

Still there is only one person to protect with Tarp. Survivors who became moribund as one remaining strength with heavy rain ......

I got a mental abnormality, and to draw a Madness card. A survivor who has entered the "health check phase" as soon as the night's phase is settled in the state of "the state of rest being 1" must draw a Madness card.

The turning card is "Tiny Dancer (small dancer)", which means that you must continue dancing without stopping until you recover one physical strength.

A survivor who continues with unfamiliar steps on the spot.

When the health check phase is over, the search phase will be entered. Each survivor consume up to three hearts from their remaining physical strength ... ...

You can draw as many Forage cards as you have consumed.

By pulling a Forage card, you can get food that can restore your physical strength ......

You can also get the material to obtain Craft cards such as chestnut and basket. For example, "Spear (stone motif)" exchanged with the following image ......

Even wild animals such as bats and cougars attacking in the middle of the night can repel, and it is possible to protect one survivor.

Also, by consuming one piece of wood, you can fire a bonfire overnight only.

When a bonfire is raised, it is possible to invalidate wild animals and supernatural events attacking that night. However, there is a limitation that you can not make a fire the next day after it rains.

The survivors own owned materials individually, but they can share it with everyone. The cards of "Shelter (hut)" to gather and exchange the materials of the three people ... ...

A super convenient item that protects three survivors from bad weather such as heavy rain and "The Sleet (sleet)". "I will make it because it was a serious eye due to heavy rain," I called out and built a hut on the desert island.

Survivors who lost all their physical strength by being attacked by wild animals and bad weather at midnight lost their lives and were unable to escape from the islands survived Game over.

However, collecting all "Bone Pile" which is only included in the Forage card, you can revive only one person by the strange power of the deserted island.

Forage cards that can be obtained by exploration are not only those that are advantageous for survivors. For example, if you eat Mushrooms (mushrooms) you will see hallucinations, you have to draw a Madness card regardless of physical fitness. It was on the card drawn by the survivor who ate the mushrooms in the following scenes ......

It was a mission that you can throw all the cards on hand and leave only the cards on hand at hand.

When I played with five editorial staff, the situation was steadily robbed of by heavy rain and raccoon raids, 3 out of 5 people lost their lives and the rest of them survived with their strength 1 Image of. The Madness card drawn by the health check is a card called "Showdown" in which players fight with sum fight or arm wrestling, losers lose 1 life.

Survivors were in a situation where each other had physical strength of 1, and it was instant death so that the survivors failed to survive from the uninhabited islands. Two survivors who seriously wrest an arm while saying "Why do we have to fight like this at the last minute though we have cooperated so much so far?"

When the editorial staff who survived as a result of arm wrestling turns the Night card in the next night's phase, "The Rescue" card appeared. It eventually escaped by stepping on the survivor who was supposed to be a friend, and although it was able to escape safely, it ended in a bad end result.

Actually playing Ravine, the part that cooperates with all while aiming for survival while sharing food and items is very unique, "I am recovering from eating river fish that I have because my physical strength is low Please "Are you going to play together while survivors actively interacting with each other such as" Why do not you make a hut together? " Since difficulty and playing time can be adjusted by the number of Night cards, it is a game that can be enjoyed even by people who have never played analog games. In addition, when playing with 3 to 6 people, the number of items that can be obtained increases as the number of people increases, so it will be easy to survive.

On the other hand, it was a shameful part that the content of the Madness card was not in line with the world view, although it is a severe world view that "survive uninhabited island and aim for escape" by all means. There are also many content like punishment games to be held at banquet places, such as "Hug the opponent", "Tell the name of the other family's family", "Talk with whispering at the ear of the next person" Some also show a considerable disgust. Therefore, when playing it is also ants to devise Madness cards beforehand or devise other penalties instead of Madness cards.

Ravine can be purchased at 22 euros (about 2700 yen) at the following site. However, it costs 15 euro (about 1900 yen) as a mailing cost to Japan.

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