Comments on: You may not survive Hellapagos

By: Trent

Trent — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:15:08 +0000

In reply to Robert R Paul. Robert - Can you be more specific about the situation you're asking about?

By: Robert R Paul

Robert R Paul — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:11:48 +0000

To ‘transform 2 food rations into 2 water rations’, must you actually use up 2 food rations first?

By: Okie

Okie — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:55:07 +0000

In reply to Trent. lol...Crusoe can definitely be long (unless you fail really fast). The shorter length may make this one work with my family, especially since even once someone is eliminated, they know they won't have to wait too long for the game to be done. I'm not a fan of player elimination that leaves someone sitting out for what could feel like the length of a game.

By: Trent

Trent — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 01:54:41 +0000

In reply to asutbone. I had a similar thought on the name.

By: asutbone

asutbone — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 23:07:37 +0000

I saw this on the shelf at a thrift store last week. I didn’t pick it up, mostly because of the title. Glad to hear it’s at least a fun game.

By: Trent

Trent — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:22:09 +0000

In reply to Okie.

Okie – It plays so quickly that you could play ~10 times waiting for others to finish Robinson Crusoe. (Which actually happens to be the next game on our Review list…)

By: Okie

Okie — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:35:42 +0000

This sounds a little bit like a stripped down version of Robinson Crusoe. I had a lot of fun with Robinson but worried that it might be too heavy/intricate for my family. At the same time, I think (like you) that some of the direct confrontation points wouldn’t go over well in my family. While in Robinson you had to make the hard choices of who got to eat or go hungry, the goal was still to have everyone survive. This game almost seems to encourage player elimination (by adding in the shoot the survivor aspect). I suppose you could do some house rules where you play without the guns and instead of immediately dying from hunger you just skip your next turn and will need food the following turn or you die…something to make it less confrontational (I suspect you’d still need to have people die off or else the game balance would go away).

Still, it sounds like a fun game that I’d enjoy playing but it would need to be with the right crew.