SHG2002 Escape From Atlantis Survive 30th Anniversary edition Board Game Stronghold An underwater volcano has erupted and the island of Atlantis is sinking into the sea! Unless the people of Atlantis escape before the volcano explodes, all the inhabitants are doomed! In this game you try to lead your people from the sinking central island of Atlantis to the safety of one of four islands nearby. Your people can get there by boat (if they find one) or by swimming but avoid the Sea Serpents, Whales, and Sharks! The player with the most survivor points wins. Survive is a cutthroat game where players seek to evacuate their pieces from an island that is breaking up, while remembering where their highest-valued pieces are located to maximize their score. An island made up of 40 hex-tiles is slowly sinking into the ocean (as the tiles are removed from the board). Each player controls ten people (valued from 1 to 6) that they try and move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island finally blows up. Players can either swim or use boats to travel but must avoid sea serpents, whales and sharks on their way to safety. Survive is very similar to Escape from Atlantis with some key differences.
SHG2002 Escape From Atlantis Survive 30th Anniversary edition Board Game Stronghold An underwater volcano has erupted and the island of Atlantis is sinking into the sea! Unless the people of Atlantis escape before the volcano explodes, all the inhabitants are doomed! In this game you try to lead your people from the sinking central island of Atlantis to the safety of one of four islands nearby. Your people can get there by boat (if they find one) or by swimming but avoid the Sea Serpents, Whales, and Sharks! The player with the most survivor points wins. Survive is a cutthroat game where players seek to evacuate their pieces from an island that is breaking up, while remembering where their highest-valued pieces are located to maximize their score. An island made up of 40 hex-tiles is slowly sinking into the ocean (as the tiles are removed from the board). Each player controls ten people (valued from 1 to 6) that they try and move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island finally blows up. Players can either swim or use boats to travel but must avoid sea serpents, whales and sharks on their way to safety. Survive is very similar to Escape from Atlantis with some key differences.
SHG2002 Escape From Atlantis Survive 30th Anniversary edition Board Game Stronghold An underwater volcano has erupted and the island of Atlantis is sinking into the sea! Unless the people of Atlantis escape before the volcano explodes, all the inhabitants are doomed! In this game you try to lead your people from the sinking central island of Atlantis to the safety of one of four islands nearby. Your people can get there by boat (if they find one) or by swimming but avoid the Sea Serpents, Whales, and Sharks! The player with the most survivor points wins. Survive is a cutthroat game where players seek to evacuate their pieces from an island that is breaking up, while remembering where their highest-valued pieces are located to maximize their score. An island made up of 40 hex-tiles is slowly sinking into the ocean (as the tiles are removed from the board). Each player controls ten people (valued from 1 to 6) that they try and move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island finally blows up. Players can either swim or use boats to travel but must avoid sea serpents, whales and sharks on their way to safety. Survive is very similar to Escape from Atlantis with some key differences.
SHG2002 Escape From Atlantis Survive 30th Anniversary edition Board Game Stronghold An underwater volcano has erupted and the island of Atlantis is sinking into the sea! Unless the people of Atlantis escape before the volcano explodes, all the inhabitants are doomed! In this game you try to lead your people from the sinking central island of Atlantis to the safety of one of four islands nearby. Your people can get there by boat (if they find one) or by swimming but avoid the Sea Serpents, Whales, and Sharks! The player with the most survivor points wins. Survive is a cutthroat game where players seek to evacuate their pieces from an island that is breaking up, while remembering where their highest-valued pieces are located to maximize their score. An island made up of 40 hex-tiles is slowly sinking into the ocean (as the tiles are removed from the board). Each player controls ten people (valued from 1 to 6) that they try and move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island finally blows up. Players can either swim or use boats to travel but must avoid sea serpents, whales and sharks on their way to safety. Survive is very similar to Escape from Atlantis with some key differences.
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I have the original version of this game (from the '80s) and bought this to update with the expansions. I was impressed by the upgrades (like plastic boats and thick tiles) but some changes were less appealing like changing the colours of the players from choices like purple and orange to more generic red, blue, green... Also, the images on the underside of tiles are more difficult to comprehend than the original written words/phrases.
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Bought for my son's 14 bday- to give his xbox a rest... We love board games- real ones like ticket to ride, settlers of catan, camel up ( which I reviewed previously) to name a few. So I saw this in a book a million but hubs had me buy Takenoko the panda game instead-- when sons bday came around, we got this game- just the basic 2/4 player set. Sturdy board and solid wood pieces and solid plastic people- not cheap plastic! Game play is a quick learn (7 yr old picked up on it quickly)- basically there's an island with sand, forests and mountains and it's sinking and your people need to get to dry land in one do the four corners. Sand, forest and mountain tile placement is random so it's different every game. Then you rotate placing people on the sand, forest and ... MoreBought for my son's 14 bday- to give his xbox a rest... We love board games- real ones like ticket to ride, settlers of catan, camel up ( which I reviewed previously) to name a few. So I saw this in a book a million but hubs had me buy Takenoko the panda game instead-- when sons bday came around, we got this game- just the basic 2/4 player set. Sturdy board and solid wood pieces and solid plastic people- not cheap plastic! Game play is a quick learn (7 yr old picked up on it quickly)- basically there's an island with sand, forests and mountains and it's sinking and your people need to get to dry land in one do the four corners. Sand, forest and mountain tile placement is random so it's different every game. Then you rotate placing people on the sand, forest and mountain tiles..then you place 2 boats per player in the sea to use to transport your people to dry land. The sand tiles disappear first, then forest and mountain..one of those has a volcano which ends the game immediately. Plus what fun would it be without a few sea monsters, sharks and whales to eat others people and knock them off their boats. People have various numbers 1-6 on the bottom of them, you score only those that make it to land before the volcano erupts- the rest are all lost at sea. Once you get the basics. You can work on strategy- I even had a guy swim to shore because I had two dolphin help swimmer tiles. We are going to get expansions for Christmas- a nice fun somewhat fast game that isn't too complicated for little kids (7-8) but has enough strategy to keep adults engaged and it's fun to kick your kids people out I the boat and eat them....let's be honest here!!
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This is a great family game that my eight-year old loves. The components are good quality and gameplay is intuitive. I was worried that the take-that nature of the game might lead to sore moments, but having meeples get eaten by sharks and sea monsters is such silly fun it hasn't been an issue. Overall, we love it.
| Language | English |
| Number of Game Players | ‎2 |
| Number of pieces | 1 |
| Assembly Required | No |
| Material Type(s) | Cardboard |
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I have the original version of this game (from the '80s) and bought this to update with the expansions. I was impressed by the upgrades (like plastic boats and thick tiles) but some changes were less appealing like changing the colours of the players from choices like purple and orange to more generic red, blue, green... Also, the images on the underside of tiles are more difficult to comprehend than the original written words/phrases.
Bought for my son's 14 bday- to give his xbox a rest... We love board games- real ones like ticket to ride, settlers of catan, camel up ( which I reviewed previously) to name a few. So I saw this in a book a million but hubs had me buy Takenoko the panda game instead-- when sons bday came around, we got this game- just the basic 2/4 player set. Sturdy board and solid wood pieces and solid plastic people- not cheap plastic! Game play is a quick learn (7 yr old picked up on it quickly)- basically there's an island with sand, forests and mountains and it's sinking and your people need to get to dry land in one do the four corners. Sand, forest and mountain tile placement is random so it's different every game. Then you rotate placing people on the sand, forest and ... MoreBought for my son's 14 bday- to give his xbox a rest... We love board games- real ones like ticket to ride, settlers of catan, camel up ( which I reviewed previously) to name a few. So I saw this in a book a million but hubs had me buy Takenoko the panda game instead-- when sons bday came around, we got this game- just the basic 2/4 player set. Sturdy board and solid wood pieces and solid plastic people- not cheap plastic! Game play is a quick learn (7 yr old picked up on it quickly)- basically there's an island with sand, forests and mountains and it's sinking and your people need to get to dry land in one do the four corners. Sand, forest and mountain tile placement is random so it's different every game. Then you rotate placing people on the sand, forest and mountain tiles..then you place 2 boats per player in the sea to use to transport your people to dry land. The sand tiles disappear first, then forest and mountain..one of those has a volcano which ends the game immediately. Plus what fun would it be without a few sea monsters, sharks and whales to eat others people and knock them off their boats. People have various numbers 1-6 on the bottom of them, you score only those that make it to land before the volcano erupts- the rest are all lost at sea. Once you get the basics. You can work on strategy- I even had a guy swim to shore because I had two dolphin help swimmer tiles. We are going to get expansions for Christmas- a nice fun somewhat fast game that isn't too complicated for little kids (7-8) but has enough strategy to keep adults engaged and it's fun to kick your kids people out I the boat and eat them....let's be honest here!!
This is a great family game that my eight-year old loves. The components are good quality and gameplay is intuitive. I was worried that the take-that nature of the game might lead to sore moments, but having meeples get eaten by sharks and sea monsters is such silly fun it hasn't been an issue. Overall, we love it.
I got the original game as a gift when I was a child. (We still have it). My brothers and I played it all the time. So, this game has a lot of sentimentality attached to it. A few things I disliked about this version... The island pieces are made of pressed cardboard, I dread the first time anything remotely wet comes into contact with them (the original pieces are as well, but once you see the new much thicker pieces it is easier to understand), and some of the new playing rules are a bit annoying to me. However, those are easily ignored. I liked the larger more colorful (yet darker) board and the different thickness of the island pieces based on terrain, the boats having slot like areas so the people are less likely to fall off, the people being bigger and easier ... MoreI got the original game as a gift when I was a child. (We still have it). My brothers and I played it all the time. So, this game has a lot of sentimentality attached to it. A few things I disliked about this version... The island pieces are made of pressed cardboard, I dread the first time anything remotely wet comes into contact with them (the original pieces are as well, but once you see the new much thicker pieces it is easier to understand), and some of the new playing rules are a bit annoying to me. However, those are easily ignored. I liked the larger more colorful (yet darker) board and the different thickness of the island pieces based on terrain, the boats having slot like areas so the people are less likely to fall off, the people being bigger and easier to handle and there being places to put everything away back into the box without having to puzzle it together. This, by far, is my favorite design change. Why can't more game designers do this? Overall we loved this version of the game & plan to buy the squid and dolphin packs as well.
I had seen some reviews that this was an older game that still had good playability, and I wanted to give it a try. This is just the base game, and is a good place to start, for the price. I initially opened the box, and saw a bunch of low-detail little meeple-like wooden pieces, which I was not expecting in a reprint (I was thinking there would be plastic figures). Yes, all the monsters/creatures, and boats are wooden cutouts. The "treasure hunters" are plastic meeples, with numbers etched into their bottom surface. The tiles for the island are nice quality cardboard pieces of three different thicknesses, with stickers to denote that they represent mountains, forests, and desert/beach (each location is a certain thickness, too). The gameplay is similar to forbidden ... MoreI had seen some reviews that this was an older game that still had good playability, and I wanted to give it a try. This is just the base game, and is a good place to start, for the price. I initially opened the box, and saw a bunch of low-detail little meeple-like wooden pieces, which I was not expecting in a reprint (I was thinking there would be plastic figures). Yes, all the monsters/creatures, and boats are wooden cutouts. The "treasure hunters" are plastic meeples, with numbers etched into their bottom surface. The tiles for the island are nice quality cardboard pieces of three different thicknesses, with stickers to denote that they represent mountains, forests, and desert/beach (each location is a certain thickness, too). The gameplay is similar to forbidden island, in that it is easy to understand, easy to teach, and feels like you are trying to escape an island. The major difference, is that in Survive, you are trying to get all of your meeples to safety, while trying to stop the other players from doing so, before the volcano blows, all the while, people are pulling tiles, and making the island sink (not to mention, each tile has a picture on the bottom of it, that will either immediately spawn a boat/creature, or can be used later). Players can mess with each other by moving the monsters/creatures on the board to create havoc with other players meeples, stealing/joining their boats, and playing tiles that allow you to turn the game in your favor. Finally, you roll the monster die, and get to move a creature to try to mess with another player. I have played about 5 times, and it has not gotten less tense. There is just enough "take that", and strategy, to keep it interesting every time, and it still feels like I am in control enough to have a chance to win. Overall, it is a good game that has timeless appeal just the way it is.
I have never been on a sinking anything. Sure, I have flipped over kayaks, and paddle-boards, and anything else that requires me to balance on top of water. But I cannot imagine the terror of being on an island that just sinks into the deep. Oh also running out of room and having to swim to safe land. Oh also while sharks, whales, and sea monsters are chasing me. You know what? Maybe Im cool with being located in the Midwest. Ill just play this game and live vicariously through the esceeples (escaping meeples? I need a handbook for these -eeple terms). Survive: Escape from Atlantis! (which I now will call Survive) is an competitive adventure game featuring action points, grid movement, secret unit deployment, dice rolls, and lots of take-that. And little boats. It ... MoreI have never been on a sinking anything. Sure, I have flipped over kayaks, and paddle-boards, and anything else that requires me to balance on top of water. But I cannot imagine the terror of being on an island that just sinks into the deep. Oh also running out of room and having to swim to safe land. Oh also while sharks, whales, and sea monsters are chasing me. You know what? Maybe Im cool with being located in the Midwest. Ill just play this game and live vicariously through the esceeples (escaping meeples? I need a handbook for these -eeple terms). Survive: Escape from Atlantis! (which I now will call Survive) is an competitive adventure game featuring action points, grid movement, secret unit deployment, dice rolls, and lots of take-that. And little boats. It also can destroy friendships and ruin evenings. Play at your own risk. DISCLAIMER: There are several expansions to this game, but we are not reviewing them at this time. We ARE including the 5-6 player mini expansion, however. Should we review the others in the future we will either update this review or post a link to the new material here. Also, I do not intend to detail every rule in the book, but give our readers an idea of how the game plays and our thoughts on it. -T To setup a game of Survive, each player will choose a color and take into their supply all the meeples of that color and two boats. Place all the terrain tiles randomly (and face down) within the bolded line on the board to create the central island. Place out the sea serpents on the sea serpent spots as menacingly as possible. Players then take turns placing their numbered meeples on terrain tiles until all meeples have been placed, and their boateeples on any water space near the island they wish. Keep aside the shark, whale, and dolphin meeples for later. Give the die to the first player and you are ready to play. On a players turn they will 1. Play any tiles from their hand, 2. Move meeples, 3. Remove terrain a tile, 4. Roll the die and move creatures. At the beginning of the game nobody will have any tiles in hand to play, so skip this step if there are no tiles in hand. On subsequent turns players may have collected tiles as a result of the #3 action, and now is the time to play those. Typically they are beneficial for the active player or detrimental to the opponents. Next, the active player will move their meeples in any combination three total board hexes. This can be done with one or more meeples on land or in the water. There are movement restrictions that I will not cover here. After movement, the active player will remove one of the terrain tiles with the lowest elevation (sand, forest, then mountain tiles). The player flips over the tile and will play it immediately if it shows an arrow, or keeps it in hand if it shows a hand icon. Finally, the active player will roll the red die and move creatures per the movement table printed on the board. Creature movement creates the tension in the game (as if fighting over the boats wasnt enough). You see, when sharks enter the board and are moved, they are hungry for swimmer meeples (obv). Whales are hungry(?) for boats and will destroy them but fling the meeples aboard into the water to become swimmers. Sea serpents dont care. They will eat swimmers and manned boats but theyre the slowest movers. So consider that. Play continues in this fashion until the either all meeples have been removed from the play grid, or a player flips over the volcano mountain tile and ends the game. Any meeples who have made it to the safety of the outer islands are worth the VP printed on their bottoms. Wait, not the butts. The bottom of the meeples. Which I guess are the feet. Components. To reiterate, in case it was missed, we are reviewing the 2010 Stronghold edition. There is a newer version, and it seems to look a little better but plays the same. However, I love the components of this version too. The meeples are fine, the creatures are cool, the varying thicknesses of the terrain tiles makes for an interesting mini-3D look, and the board is great without being too busy and distracting. I have absolutely no issues with these components and think they are super. Now, you may have read in my intro that this game may ruin friendships and the evening, and I really am not joking about this. I have played this so many times where at least one person becomes completely angered by the chomping of the shark or the horrible movement of the sea serpent adjacent to their boat. Its just a game, and its inevitable in this one your meeples will get eaten. Its gonna happen! When I teach this now I try to make that apparent right away because it is then not viewed as absolutely treachery when it happens to newer players. Should you be playing with sensitive gamers, please instruct them early that it WILL happen or youre gonna have a bad time. However, this game is great! I love it now as much as I ever have. Its an older horse for me, but one of which ...
This game, from what I can tell is a reprint from 1982 (redone in 2012)Does it stand up to today's modern stands- I totally think so.The game is a mix of very "almost" team work, boats, whales crushing boats, sharks nabbing swimmers and the odd sea serpents crushing everything and everyone.Your people are worth varying points, so you have to remember which one is worth which...but don't let anyone else know you care about them!Each term is simple enough, moving your people off the central island, onto boats and avoid hazards as you go. However at the end of your turn, you take a piece of the island away, potentially dropping a friend/foe into the Ocean. This reveals a benefit or perhaps a new creature to join the fray.Trying to Survive your escape from Atlantis ... MoreThis game, from what I can tell is a reprint from 1982 (redone in 2012)Does it stand up to today's modern stands- I totally think so.The game is a mix of very "almost" team work, boats, whales crushing boats, sharks nabbing swimmers and the odd sea serpents crushing everything and everyone.Your people are worth varying points, so you have to remember which one is worth which...but don't let anyone else know you care about them!Each term is simple enough, moving your people off the central island, onto boats and avoid hazards as you go. However at the end of your turn, you take a piece of the island away, potentially dropping a friend/foe into the Ocean. This reveals a benefit or perhaps a new creature to join the fray.Trying to Survive your escape from Atlantis while either helping or hindering your friends do the same.To play and to behold on the table, it may have a simple but eye catching appeal, but it has a brutal edge that is an absolute blast to play with friends. It plays quick and plays a little different each time.My only warning would be, due to it's high direct spite, it can upset either young children , or more sensitive older souls. So choose your players carefully.This is a classic game, which is immensely popular, for all the right reasons. One that has a pride of place in my collection!
Survive Escape from Atlantis 30th Anniversary is a fun game, with easy-to-follow rules that enable anyone to play. Essentially, the premise of the game is that each player is trying to rescue 10 survivors from an island that is quickly sinking into the water (an element that will be familiar to players of Forbidden Island.) The water surrounding the island is infested with sea monsters, which will destroy life rafts and people, sharks, which will eat survivors as they try to swim to safety, and whales, which will destroy boats, but ignore swimmers. Two game mechanics allow players to manipulate the various sea creatures, as well as providing random benefits. The first is a monster die, rolled at the end of each turn, and the second is the printed graphic underneath ... MoreSurvive Escape from Atlantis 30th Anniversary is a fun game, with easy-to-follow rules that enable anyone to play. Essentially, the premise of the game is that each player is trying to rescue 10 survivors from an island that is quickly sinking into the water (an element that will be familiar to players of Forbidden Island.) The water surrounding the island is infested with sea monsters, which will destroy life rafts and people, sharks, which will eat survivors as they try to swim to safety, and whales, which will destroy boats, but ignore swimmers. Two game mechanics allow players to manipulate the various sea creatures, as well as providing random benefits. The first is a monster die, rolled at the end of each turn, and the second is the printed graphic underneath each bit of island removed from the game by the active player. In the end, the player who has the highest point total from the bases of the rescued survivor pieces wins. The game is simple and colorful, but brutal as players launch monsters at one-another, and scrabble to get on board and gain control of life rafts. I have enjoyed playing this game with my friends, many times, students at my high school, and will soon be sharing the game with my family. I highly recommend Survive Escape from Atlantis!
Survive is a reissue of a game from the early 80s that has seen a component upgrade. I've been able to compare it to the original and the rules appear to be the same, with the new version adding optional variants to the end of the manual.The game is about escaping from a sinking island. This is represented by tiles of differing thickness to match the terrain printed on them. I have to say that the publisher did a great job with these. Even if you felt them blind, there's no confusion between what's a beach and what's a forest or mountain.On your turn you get actions to move your meeples or boats, you get to flip an island tile, which will often dump someone's piece into the water, and you roll the die and get to move one of the hazards (sharks, whales, sea ... MoreSurvive is a reissue of a game from the early 80s that has seen a component upgrade. I've been able to compare it to the original and the rules appear to be the same, with the new version adding optional variants to the end of the manual.The game is about escaping from a sinking island. This is represented by tiles of differing thickness to match the terrain printed on them. I have to say that the publisher did a great job with these. Even if you felt them blind, there's no confusion between what's a beach and what's a forest or mountain.On your turn you get actions to move your meeples or boats, you get to flip an island tile, which will often dump someone's piece into the water, and you roll the die and get to move one of the hazards (sharks, whales, sea monsters). The tiles all have something on the back. Some are the above hazards, summoning a new one to the board, some bring in boats, while others you take to form a "hand" of special powers to play. You may get the ability to fend off a shark for a turn for example.The game is a nice mix of strategy and luck. You're pieces have numbers on the bottom that convert to points if they live, but it's up to you to remember which piece is which as there's no peeking once they hit the board. There's an element of trying to guess where your opponent's high scoring meeples are so you can be sure to feed them to a sea monster. There's also a lot of "take that" as you move the creatures around or choose which piece of island to sink. While the game has a good bit of randomness, I don't think any of our 20+ plays have been decided by luck.
I had 4 new games to play over xmas, and Survive won a dozen repeat plays whilst the others only got 1 look in!I like games where you can move characters as I feel more invested in their outcome. One of the great simple beauties of this game is there is never a moment where you want to give up because your opponent has beaten you so badly - revealing the hidden survivor scores at the end of the game keeps it interesting until the very end and it is possible to win a game with 2 survivors even if your opponent has 4 or 5.There can be some brutal revenge moves if opponents take out a boatload of your survivors with a sea monster, but that just made us want to play more to reverse the odds.Box says 40 min play time but we found we were playing a game in 25-30 ... MoreI had 4 new games to play over xmas, and Survive won a dozen repeat plays whilst the others only got 1 look in!I like games where you can move characters as I feel more invested in their outcome. One of the great simple beauties of this game is there is never a moment where you want to give up because your opponent has beaten you so badly - revealing the hidden survivor scores at the end of the game keeps it interesting until the very end and it is possible to win a game with 2 survivors even if your opponent has 4 or 5.There can be some brutal revenge moves if opponents take out a boatload of your survivors with a sea monster, but that just made us want to play more to reverse the odds.Box says 40 min play time but we found we were playing a game in 25-30 mins once we got used to it.Simple, easy to learn, highly re-playable and fun!
| Language | English |
| Number of Game Players | ‎2 |
| Number of pieces | 1 |
| Assembly Required | No |
| Material Type(s) | Cardboard |
