The 7th Continent
Solo Playthrough 2
Crawled onto shore with…four action cards left to draw. Not much life left. Made a fire to chase away my freezing condition. Found a fishing spot and recovered five cards from a decent catch, revealing a way harder version of the same card because this game wants to kill me.
Wandered over to look at cliff face keeping me from going deeper. Yeah…way too beat up for that. Wandered over to a weird hole next to a tree, which required I toss, well…all my cards to get whatever was at the bottom. Which turned out to be a weird fucking crown that made me paranoid as well as dumping tons of experience points on me.
I’ve never been given an opportunity to spend experience points. They’re purely notional as far as I can tell.
So when you run out of draws, you shuffle and draw off the discard deck. It’s all cool until you pull one of the five curse cards, which ends the game.
I figured out a decent trick to getting that fishing hole recharged (via close card reading) and with a very few cards back in my action deck (via close card reading, sensing a theme here) went fishing in the hopes of getting my deck rebuilt.
Aaand got attacked by a horned bear, which looks like it’d feed me for the next year. But…no. Pulled a curse card right off the top of the discards.
Back to the beginning!
What is this game? A solo game? But it has neat artwork!
Two thousand cards of neat art!
It’s a coop but it plays very well as a solo.
Joscelin le esqurel !
Emergent sandbox narrative at its finest. Sounds amazing. 🙂
Christian Griffen lots of talented designers are chasing this particular gaming grail, aren’t they?
Experience is huge, once you find a nice place to rest and recuperate…
Adam Blinkinsop I trust that the game will tell me when that happens, yeah?
Yup, it’ll be obvious. If you’ve got the card draw + crafting mechanisms down, you pretty much understand all the core systems.
Also, that bear is the worst.
Yeah, that bear.
I want to play this game, but it’s SHIT expensive on ebay.
Looks like they’re launching another Kickstarter on the 26th. But it’s unclear if it’s some sort of new follow-up game or if it’s to raise funds for a whole new print-run with errata/updates and such.
I’m so iffy about Kickstarters that justify their existence as reprints. But I also get that KS wants to make money.
I’ll just be happy for a chance to get my hands on it. Everything you’ve said about it makes it sound like something I’d be into.