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Have you ever felt like someone was calling you but nobody was there? A voice deep within the crevices of your mind that you typically give little attention. You felt that voice this morning, but this time, it was clear - it was calling you! The voice became loud enough to gnaw at your sanity yet it’s manageable enough that you’ve been able to bury it.
Time seemed to move in slow-motion, mostly due to the eerie voice. What is it saying? It can’t be real. Frustrated, you keep working. Even with the lingering storm clouds ready to unleash a torrent of rain and thunder over the land, you fight that possibility and continue.
Towards the end of the day you hit a breaking point. You need to clear your head. The storm clouds are passing, it looks like a great time for a walk to the countryside. You run to your home and grab your satchel, which contains some odds and ends. As you start moving west towards the setting sun, you turn around to face your home, possibly for the last time. You don’t care. The need to escape is too much. The need to escape the voice is even greater. Yet, the need to follow the voice is consuming! You’re ready for an adventure. You’re ready for the unknown. Little do you realize, you may end up alone. Welcome to…THE ABANDONS!
The Abandons is a press-your-luck game of exploration meant to be played alone. You will traverse the twists and turns of the labyrinth in the hopes of making it out alive. Be careful, your next turn may be your last - and you shall forever be abandoned!
The goal of The Abandons is to make it out of the maze alive by reaching the exit before you've reached too many dead ends and have no way out!
—description from the publisher
- fits in the palm of your hand
- can be played on a break
- has a little bit of a story
- kind of hard to find
- can be a trifle
- not worth tracking down for some
- traversing a labyrinth
- countryside
- Fallen land
- Quests over coffee
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card laying — it is a card laying game with a dungeon type theme.
- Push Your Luck — when you find a dead end you can go back to the last intersection that you played and if that intersection has multiple paths that you haven't explored yet you can continue to play if you have found a dead end and you don't have any more paths to explore on the last intersection you were at then it's game over so that's how you lose the game.
- Set Collection — if you collect the same item the number of dots so two cards to make a bomb three cards to make a magic mirror only one card to make a map then you can use those to help you on your journey.
- tile laying — it is a tile laying game
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- hey everybody welcome back to the dungeon dive Daniel here I hope you're doing well and if you're not I hope you are soon
- equipped with your trusty satchel and your sense of adventure You Follow The Voice through the countryside and encounter the ominous structure
- think of it as a game of kind of like dungeon solitaire or something.
- overall uh this game is okay it's kind of a trifle a little bit it's one of those things that you just kind of pick up and do
- I had actually heard a lot of good things about this and I was expecting a little bit more uh when I first started playing it I was kind of like oh really is that it
- it's so small I mean it fits in the palm of your hand you can stick it just about anywhere on a crowded shelf and it'll fit
- hope you enjoyed this quick look at the abandons we will talk to you later byebye