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In Don't Make a Sound, it was a quiet day in a barren one horse town when gravity pod landed near a sheep farm on the outskirts of town. Gravity pod is just my name for what it was, since it was entirely alien. The pod contained a ravenous being born and bred by a higher intelligence for one purpose: to clear a planet of current life so that it could be terraformed. Devoid of eyes, The Eyeless uses heightened sensory faculties to seek and destroy anything and everything that makes noise.
Welcome to Utopia! Jokingly called "nowhere" by the rest of the state's residents, Utopia is a desert town where the people are outnumbered by... well just about anything else you can think of. Little do the residents know, but they are about to be set upon by a brood of giant sand snakes, each as large as a tractor trailer, that were nested just below the town almost a million years before. The million year molting period.
Requires Final Girl Core Box to play.
- description by the publisher
- The 'Gruesome Deaths' mechanic adds flavorful narrative elements.
- The game offers a straightforward entry point for new players.
- The Sand Snakes can potentially deal damage to the killer.
- The bulldozer item provides a thematic and useful defensive ability.
- The 'Unlimited Endurance' Terror card, which fully heals the killer, is highly frustrating and can prolong the game unnecessarily.
- The killer, the 'Eyass,' often doesn't feel menacing until the very end of the game.
- The noise mechanic can feel less impactful if certain Terror cards aren't drawn.
- The Sand Snake mechanic can feel underdeveloped and not always a significant threat.
- The art style of the killer is described as goofy and detracts from its scariness.
- Alien invasion and survival
- Utopia, a small town
- Lore provided by the game is read aloud
- Tremors
- A Quiet Place
- Alien (Xenomorph)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action cards — Players use action cards for movement, attacks, defense, and other abilities.
- Gruesome Deaths — Thematic ways victims die, providing narrative flavor and sometimes triggering game effects.
- Item cards — Players can acquire items that provide various benefits or special abilities.
- Killer Abilities — The killer has unique abilities and a Terror deck that dictates its actions and introduces new threats.
- Noise Track — Players generate noise by using items and performing actions. Higher noise levels increase the chance of the killer targeting the player.
- Sand Snakes — Environmental hazard that erupts from the ground, dealing damage to victims and potentially the killer.
- Sinkholes — Impassable terrain tokens that appear on locations, dealing damage to players who are in or enter the space.
- terror/horror track — A track that increases as victims die or certain events occur, leading to game-ending conditions or increased killer aggression.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The Unlimited Endurance card is dog [expletive]
- I don't give a [expletive] what their reasoning was it's still a [expletive] card
- The Eyass isn't my favorite one that I've ever played
- I think the sand snakes are just kind of there
- This one would probably be as a as a box set would probably be a five out of 10