Explore places, combine items, and experience stories in Adventure Games, a series of co-operative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles, players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play. Working together, players explore common areas, talk to people, look for clues, and combine various items to reveal the secret of the story. Depending on what decisions the players make, the course of history changes and there is no going back!
Unlike the co-operative EXIT: The Game series, titles in this series focus on the telling and discovery of the story with no time pressure. That said, many different paths can be experienced during play, with more than one correct resolution to the story waiting to be discovered. Each title consists of three chapters, each taking about 75 minutes to play. Nothing is destroyed, so the games can be played multiple times.
In Monochrome Inc., players have been instructed to break into the research building named in the game's title, and once they get inside this tower's mirrored windows, they are left on their own. What they find there, what conclusions they draw from these items, and how this nerve-wracking story ends is entirely in their hands. Only by co-ordinating their team will they avoid potential pitfalls, carry out their mission, and solve the mystery of this building.
- Host found it fun
- Not as fun as Dungeon
- base
- choose your own adventure style
- Dungeon
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- Choose Your Own Adventure — It's kind of like a choose your own adventure, but you're all going through not choose your own adventure, but more like uh uh basically the old point and click adventure style things.
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- I know it has its own little like um uh you know sub cult of people who enjoy it.
- I don't particularly like it because I think it has a very strong rich get richer.
- If you start winning an Outpost you were going to continue winning because if your engine gets going faster than mine there's not much I can do about it.
- But yeah this one does not This one is one I wanted to like a lot more than I did.
- it's a good back and forth two-player game.
- I like the theme of it a lot. Seems like most music games I play aren't very good.
- I I find this one amusing.
- It almost feels like you could play it randomly and have the same amount of fun, but it's a nice way to pass some time.
- It's a great little filler.
- I don't think a lot of people have played this one.
- It was replaced by Nobody is Perfect, too, because they didn't get it right the first time.
- This is what a lot of people were talking about.
- It was one of those games that I saw a little bit of buzz and I was like, "Ooh, I'll have to play that sometime." and then never heard anything else about it.
- I think that's just a really solid two-player game from Catalia.
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- I'm really looking forward to deranged and hoping that leaves my sanity intact
- I never got a chance to play star fares of Catan so this is gonna be my first introduction
- zona is an adventure board game design for one to four players