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Featuring the co-operative game system used in Portal’s award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dune: House Secrets delivers a deeply thematic experience that drops one-to-four players in the middle of the highest stakes unfolding on the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
In this story-driven adventure game, players take on the roles of rebels who must solve a series of challenging missions with a finite amount of time and resources. Players cooperatively make decisions on how to progress the story as they decide to explore different regions of the world, follow leads, leverage allies, and overcome opposition of all kinds. During gameplay, players use a variety of physical and digital game components — a deck of cards with essential clues and plot twists, a dozen physical handouts, and a dedicated website with additional resources — to steer the narrative in fun and surprising directions for a truly immersive experience.
Beginning with an introductory prologue designed to get players acquainted with the massive Dune universe, the game then continues with three big adventures, each taking roughly two-to-three hours to play. During each episode, players can earn experience points to level up their characters in between missions and unlock new options in future gameplay. Each adventure can be played separately as standalone episodes, yet should players complete all three episodes, they will unravel a master game narrative with an epic climax and unforgettable resolution with lasting impact on the future two games in the trilogy.
—description from the publisher
Ages | 14+ |
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Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
Play Time | 90m – 180m |
Designer | Jakub Poczęty, Przemysław Rymer, Weronika Spyra, Ignacy Trzewiczek |
Mechanics | Cooperative Game, Solo / Solitaire Game, Storytelling |
Theme | Science Fiction, Movies / TV / Radio theme |
Publisher | GaGa Games, Geekach Games, IELLO, Korea Boardgames co., Ltd., Maldito Games, Pegasus Spiele, Portal Games, Reflexshop |
carlosleonrendon
Definitely a downgrade from the Detective games. It's mostly just playing it for the story and not for the puzzle. The end of the chapter is just a single question and not even one that we thought would be the hardest part. All the really intense parts about having to come to your own conclusions is gone. The tokens were barely part of the game. The worst part of it is the website; they spent a lot of money on some videos that could literally and probably should be text on the site but makes you load and buffer some videos that for some reason take forever to load even with 1Gbps speed. The story wasn't terrible, they definitely have the pieces to tweak the website and ask more questions about the story and create a better challenge/puzzle. Very disappointed and happy that it was only 3 scenarios. Also, don't use the stickers, not necessary as you can just write it down and that way you can re-sell it intact as there's almost zero replayability. 1-4 90-180 minutes
armandoH
Mainly a solo game, and a good one. Story - based …. a good story if you are a fan of DUNE like me. The game begins with events after the movie timeline. If you haven’t read the novel or seen the movie you probably won’t appreciate the game as much.
Educatedguess
Oh, dear! Why does this exist? Portal used to be a serious, reliable company. What a sad, pointless cash grab.