Ravine is a strategic and cooperative survival card game. You and your friends survived the plane crash, but will you survive the night? Work together to forage for food, craft a fire, and build shelters, but be wary: every step you take in the ravine could be one step closer to madness.
During the Day, players risk their hearts to leave camp and forage for food and supplies. Before sunset, players work together, share what they found, and craft supplies. If you prepare well enough, you may survive the Night.
Be prepared for more than just bumps in the night. Weather, animals, and other wild things will put you and your team to the test. BEWARE: Fall below two hearts and you will go mad.
Lose all of your hearts to risk or the elements, and you lose the game. Survive all of the Night cards in your deck, and you win.
- Easy and fun gameplay
- Well crafted design
- Perfect for party gamers
- Madness mechanic adds tension
- Resource gathering and shelter building elements
- Survival, sanity, wilderness survival
- Survival scenario after plane crash
- cooperative survival narrative
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative gameplay — Work together with other players to survive
- Resource management — Forage for food, craft fire, build shelters
- Token as dice system — Use heart tokens as dice to avoid negative outcomes
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Hello guys and welcome to one more wine around up
- We're gonna see some new and interesting board games that you can check out and possibly back on Kickstarter
- The kind of game you need to invite your friends over and have some jazz playing and make some fancy cocktails and just enjoy the game
- This game is a love letter to the sci-fi movies and comics of the 80s and the 90s
- Root is an asymmetric game of adventure and war where you rule a fantastic forest kingdom