Many moons ago, a mighty Spanish ship, The San Miguel, was barreled up with precious metals and stones. To escape pirates hot on their trail, the crew ventured into the perilous Infinity Storm, never to be seen again. Pirate Captains from every port in the Seven Seas have flocked to these waters in search of the fabled Treasure. Aye, with so many greedy scallywags, these ROGUE SEAS are not to be reckoned with!
In this EASY TO LEARN strategy game, the goal is to:
Find the five missing pieces of the treasure map
Safely navigate the Infinity Storm & reach Treasure Island
Players must upgrade their vessel and assemble their crew in order to find buried treasure, slay Lethal Monsters, and plunder Loot from Merchants and other Captains.
—description from the publisher
- Easy-to-learn strategy game
- Evocative art tied into the theme
- Easy-to-understand player boards
- Streamlined and easy-to-learn gameplay
- Gets right into the action quickly
- Combat mechanism is enjoyable
- Option to parlay or escape instead of fighting
- Fantastic solo mode
- Pirates of swashbuckling adventure on the high seas
- the Seven Seas
- Jamaica
- Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Libertalia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting/hand management — You're going to have your crew members in hand you're going to have your combat your weapons upgrade.
- Combat — You're going to battle uh not only each other but you're battling uh some uh NPCs right you've got your merchants and you've got your monsters.
- cooperative play — The game also has a solo mode with a different deck of event cards and objectives.
- Dice Rolling with Mitigation — You're going to roll dice but it's not just a dice chucker you are going to be able to mitigate those dice with some of the cards or crew members that you have.
- Player vs. Player — You can also fight each other so if Michelle and I happen to run each other in a spot then we're going to go to uh combat.
- Resource Management — You're going to manage two different currencies uh gold and notoriety.
- Set Collection — You're going to do a little set collection.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Pirate captains from every port in the Seven Seas have flocked to these Waters in search of the fabled treasure.
- The San Miguel a mighty Spanish ship was filled to the brim with precious metals and stones to escape Pirates hot on their Trail the crew ventured into the perilous Infinity storm never to be seen again.
- Rogue Seas is an easy-to-learn strategy game in which players must upgrade their vessel and assemble their crew in order to find buried treasure slay lethal monsters and plunder loot from merchants and other captains.
- Rogue Seas is a fun and familiar theme Pirates of swash buckling Adventure on the high seas.
- The game play in Rogue Seas is really streamlined and pretty easy to learn uh you're basically doing a couple of things uh every turn and what's great is you get right into the action right away.
- The combat mechanism here it's not just rolling it's just not a rollof you're going to have your crew members in hand you're going to have your combat your weapons upgrade.
- there's also a way to say hey we don't need to fight right now let's parlay let's talk out our differences.
- This game has a solo uh mode and I'm a solo game player and this is fantastic.
- it's got the adventure of uh the multiplayer game but you're using a different uh deck of uh event cards and also uh and um some objectives that you need to do.