Isles of Terror: Kickstarter läuft

Der neue Kickstarter von Voodoo Games läuft.

Embark on sinister adventures in this 1-4 player story-driven strategy game of exploration and conquest.

Isles of Terror can be experienced as a competitive or a cooperative game by 1-4 players. Each game is based on an adventure with an overarching storyline that can either be played separately or as part of a campaign.

You will need to explore different isles and overcome their dangers in the form of minions, terrors, seasonal events, and unforeseen situations. Carefully manage your resources as you advance deeper into the jungles through fighting or negotiating with its inhabitants in order to gain control of the areas, to raise camps, and to strengthen your position.

In the end, earning victory points is essential to win the game and they can be earned in many different ways, e.g. by following the given scenario objectives, focusing on progress tasks and completing missions. Now it is up to you to evolve a strategy and bravely lead your expedition into the unknown regions of the Isles of Terror.

Each game is unique – Seasonal effects, an exploration deck, and randomly set up area tiles shape a new experience with different and unpredictable explorations in each game.

Against each other, together or on your own – Wether you prefer competitive, cooperative or solo games, Isles of Terror features all of that without losing anything of its mechanics or atmosphere!

Become a part of the story – Delve into a new story with each adventure or follow the overarching plot while playing a campaign. Backgrounds, epilogues and the adventure design itself will help you to feel like you are part of the story.

Stay in the game – There is no player elimination and a growing threat system will help to keep the leading players within striking range so that no player ever feels like they do not stand a chance of winning anymore.

Choose your strategy –Go after the adventure objectives, complete missions, focus on your progress tasks, or even raid other players to earn victory points. There are plenty of options to win a game.

Self-restricting action system – Plan ahead and choose your actions wisely as each decision restricts the usage of your other actions during a round.

Endless possibilities – Easily create your own adventures and campaigns by customizing the isles’ layout, minions, bosses, progress tasks or adventure objectives.

Es gibt zwei zentrale Pledges, die so aussehen und sich wie folgt unterscheiden:

If you choose the EXPLORER reward you will get the base game of Isles of Terror plus all unlocked stretch goals.

If you choose the CONQUEROR reward you will receive the base game of Isles of Terror plus the miniature pack add-on with 92 plastic miniatures. These can be used to exchange all wooden components of the base game. In addition, you will also receive all unlocked stretch goals.

Add-ons gibt es auch:

In addition to the core game you can make optional purchases in the form of add-ons. Add-ons cannot be selected directly through Kickstarter. You will need to manage your pledge and increase your pledge value by the amount of the add-ons you want to add.

Basically, you pay for what you want as an add-on right now here on Kickstarter. Later on, you will then choose your add-ons in the pledge manager with your prepaid money acting as a reserve for any add-ons you want to add.

Isles of Terror can be played competitive, cooperative or solo. Players will have the choice of different adventures that can be played as single scenarios or a full campaign.

Each player leads their own expedition based on one of the four factions. Each faction is distinguished by specific strategy cards that can be played to influence game situations and slightly different player board layouts.

Game rounds are played as seasons in which each player acts on a turnaround basis performing a total of three actions. At the beginning of a season a new event card will be drawn that affects all players.

Placing action tokens allows a player to choose one of the actions linked to it. This system restricts or even forbids the usage of specific actions based on how the action tokens are placed and which actions are performed.

Land actions allow you to bring new troops to the isle and receive all resources that have been gathered on your ship.

Using a move action lets you explore new areas or move into conflict with other players by spending rations to move your characters.

Add new troops to your controlled areas by performing a recruit action and spending gold on new soldiers and captains.

Once you control some areas you can use a produce action to generate new resources.

If you are lacking any kind of resources you can request new ones with a support action.

While exploring the isle you will be confronted with its inhabitants. And you may choose to negotiate with them or fight them and conquer the area in order to establish a camp. Each exploration is also accompanied by an exploration card that creates a unique situation.

The types of minions and bosses you could face will change with each adventure and you will also have the chance to adjust them as you like to create your own stories.

Sometimes you might even discover one of the special places, each with unique beneficial effects, or you might explore a river that quickens your movements.

The winner of a competitive game is usually the player with the most victory points. Those can be earned by completing adventure goals, defeating captains and bosses and fulfilling missions.

Victory points can also be earned by focusing on three progress tasks that change with each adventure. Each time you meet the criteria of one of the tasks your progress token will advance on its scale. Hitting the colored areas marked with the totem symbols will then earn you a victory point.

When playing cooperative or solo your victory conditions will differ and you have to work for a common goal in order to succeed in an adventure

Und das sind die Stretch Goals:

When exceeding our funding goal, we would really like to use any additional money to improve the game and its components in order to make it more special. In addition, we hope that we can add a few awesome adventure and faction expansions that we have already prepared for but that will need some additional funding.

The following lists the next possible stretch goals. A stretch goal will be unlocked once its necessary funding amount is reached. You will notice that we grouped the stretch goals into different sections and made it up like a “quest” that can be fulfilled. Once all stretch goals of a section are unlocked the free bonus is unlocked as well and acts as some kind of reward for fulfilling all the stretch goals of a “quest”.

Es gibt auch schon einige Videos zum Spiel:

Die Kampagne läuft noch 26 Tage und ist bereits finanziert.

Quelle: Isles of Terror