Small Islands details
- Designer: Alexis Allard
- Artists: Aurélie Guarino
- Publishers: Kobold Spieleverlag, Lucky Duck Games, MushrooM Games (II), Playagame Edizioni, The Wood Games
- Release Date: 2018
- Player count : 1 - 4
- Age range : 8+
- Time range : 30 minutes
- Mechanism(s): Push Your Luck, Solo / Solitaire Game, Tile Placement
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Small Islands is a tile-placement game in which you are daring explorers discovering a magnificent archipelago. Its islands are brimming with natural resources but also temples from an ancient and mysterious civilization. Brave adventurers, bring back to your clan wealth & prestige!
A game is played in maximum 4 Rounds. At the beginning of each Round, each player secretly picks an Objective Card out of three cards. And in turn, players draw and place a Landscape Tile out of the 5 available (2 in hand, and 3 on the table). At a certain point, another option becomes available: placing a Ship Tile. When this tile is placed, in turn, all players place Houses on the islands and earn Prestige Points according to their Objective. Then players start a new Round. When the game ends, players receive additional points for their Ship Tiles.
In Advanced Mode, Objectives are split in 2 types of cards which allows you to create your own objectives amongst many combinations.
There is also a Solo Mode, innovative for its mechanics as well as for the very concept of a solo mode in a tile-placement game. We gave it an AI with a personality and different behaviors.
Small Islands offers you even more surprises, hidden at its heart.
Gather your crew, pull up anchor, unfurl the mizzenmast, and get ready to set sail for the Small Islands. Check out our review!
