Escape: The Curse of the Temple is a cooperative game in which players must escape from a temple which is cursed before the temple collapses and kills one or more explorers, thereby causing everyone to lose. Escape is played in real-time, with all players rolling dice and taking actions simultaneously. You must roll the right
Escape: The Curse of the Temple is a cooperative game in which players must escape from a temple which is cursed before the temple collapses and kills one or more explorers, thereby causing everyone to lose.
Escape is played in real-time, with all players rolling dice and taking actions simultaneously. You must roll the right symbols to enter a room, and if you’re at an open doorway, you can roll to reveal the next tile in the stack and add it to that doorway. Some rooms contain combinations of red and blue symbols, and if you (possibly working with other players in the same room) roll enough red or blue symbols, you “discover” magic gems, moving them from a separate gem depot onto that tile.
The real-time aspect is enforced by a soundtrack to be played during the game. At certain points, a countdown starts, and if players aren’t back in the safe room when time is up, they lose one of their dice.
Once the exit tile is revealed, players can attempt to escape the temple by moving to that tile, then rolling a number of blue dice equal to the magic gems that haven’t been removed from the gem depot. Thus, the more gems you find, the easier it is to escape the temple. When a player escapes, he gives one die to a player of his choice. If all players escape before the third countdown, everyone wins; if not, everyone loses, no matter how many players did escape.
Escape: The Curse of the Temple includes two expansion modules (“Treasures” and “Curses”) that can be used individually or together.
This is the International version of the game. It includes instructions in English, German, French, Dutch, and Spanish.
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Quick, fast paced, cooperative, and exciting My wife doesn’t like ‘strategic’ board games, preferring the Outbursts and Craniums of the world. I also do a lot of family therapy, and have found that Cooperative Games are the one way to have family game nights where my client families don’t end up having a fit that someone lost. Further, the time-related/cd system of play here is unlike any I’ve seen, and the real-time component here really is that – each game is only 10 minutes. You may take as long as that to set up, but it’s easy to play several games over and enjoy each one without getting stuck in Risk or Monopoly limbo. Having played this with a variety of ages and families, I’ve found that middle Elementary School aged kids really ‘got’ and got ‘into’ this game, while younger K level kids could play along easily with an adult rolling dice. Some kids I played with found it TOO exciting, which surprised me, though it is fairly intense with the timer and CD involved.Despite using this mostly with families, it’s a…
Awesome game, short set-up time, takes only 10-minutes a play through and is INTENSE. 0
Fast enjoyable board game 0