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In Salvation Road, the players control 4 to 8 characters struggling to survive in a barren wasteland.
A set of Heroes, exceptional individuals, are holed up in a barricaded Compound, protecting a group of young, old, and wounded Survivors. The desert around them is filled with the shattered husks of buildings, and with marauding gangs of bandits. The Survivors are doing their best to keep the Marauders at bay. Some have even been recruited by the heroes to help search through this wasteland, scavenging Resources.
The good news is that they've heard radio broadcasts from a settlement called Salvation, which claims to be a safe haven with plenty of food and water. The Characters need to save up enough Resources to make the long journey down the dangerous highway, in hopes of reaching safety from the Marauders.
Can they survive long enough to get themselves, and the people under their protection, to Salvation?
Salvation Road is a co-operative game for 1 to 4 (up to 8 with a Scenario) players that plays in about an hour. In the standard game players are assigned 2 Characters (1 Hero and 1 Survivor). Both Characters are useful but you must deal with the Survivor's limitations and exploit the Hero's strengths to succeed. While scavenging resources in a post apocalyptic wasteland may sound easy, try doing it with the marauders on your tail, wounding you every chance they get.
- Really liked it
- Cool
- Challenging game
- Thought it was good
- Ranked 6248, which is lower than it should be.
- Post-apocalyptic survival, non-zombie
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Limited actions per turn, with turns being super fast.
- Cooperative — Felt it was a very good implementation of a co-op game.
- Location actions — Data winner kind of thing where players go out to locations and search things, and stuff happens.
- scouting — Actions to scout ahead on the road to see what is needed.
- Set Collection — Collecting things of a kind or colors.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- you only have five tries to do it
- it's too lucky
- someone can just Crush by getting some good roles
- The core still is flawed
- I want to like it more than I do
- she got that Mr carcasson age
- Kickstarter is still where you gotta go
- we call those people normies
- I like to think that nobody's above the law
- it's a train wreck
- the acting is great
- there's not a weak person weak actor in that group
- the last lost no wow
- absolutely sucks that Lance Reddick is no longer with us
- The Mamas and the Papas I listen to that song a lot
- It was great and then and then they just [ __ ] all over themselves
- it's a little late