Description from the publisher:
Escape from Dulce is the first in a trilogy of collaborative, sci-fi adventure games for 1 to 5 players. Choose from one of 8 hilariously bizarre characters, who have been imprisoned on the bottom level of the Dulce Base and have just awoken after a Cryo-Pod malfunction. The players must blast their way through a base full of self strategizing human and non-human enemies, as they attempt to traverse the seven nefarious levels of Dulce and escape to freedom.
Along the way you’ll collect zany items, incredible weapons and level up your characters, while constantly working to keep the alarm from reaching critical levels and releasing the dreaded Man in Black.
The game is more than just blasting enemies though, as a tale slowly unfolds in the form of story themed Encounter Cards, randomly drawn every time the players enter a new room. The story portion of the card describes the room and what happens to the players while in that room, while the business portion of the card dictates what traps or puzzles and enemies the players must overcome. The Encounter Cards create the feeling of a lived in world and allow for maximum replayability and role-play fun.
Will you play as Snippy Von Bell, a two-headed mutant cow that can strap machine guns on its back, or Amelia Earhart, a pilot who disappeared in 1937 over the Pacific? Maybe you’ll meet a helpful sasquatch or have to decide if you should release an Atlantean fishman from his aquarium cell. Tentacle monsters, robot ninjas, a game of lizard man chess and even a mini black hole await you! Good luck escaping. You’re going to need it.
- wacky fun
- super fun
- characters are amazing
- loot is amazing
- so much loot and it all does different things
- pure fun
- really really cool cool
- love that game so much
- still waiting on those expansions
- games can be pretty long like 3 hours three and a half hours if you do the whole thing
- box is huge and it is a kind of a pain in the butt to get everything back in the Box because of that 3D Tower
- MK Ultra, weird Area 51 conspiracy theories, supermarket tabloid exploitation
- Dulce Air Force Base
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Draw Encounters — very basic game you move you draw an encounter card you face the encounter card you move you draw an encounter card you face the encounter card that's pretty much the whole game
- Character Leveling — you can level up your characters
Video topics + discussion points
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- The combat is a little fiddly and just never really feels natural I always forget uh how to solve combat in that game but uh everything else I really like the questing is super cool and just it's a neat world to be in and I think they did a really good job of capturing the uniqueness of Fallout
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- It really is it's impossible to keep up it's impossible to play all the games it's impossible to play the games I want to play enough to to satisfy me because there's just so many things coming out and so many things competing for for our hobby intention