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HUNTED: KOBAYASHI TOWER
It’s your wife Sharon’s birthday, so you decided to surprise her at work with some roses and that expensive chocolate she’s always craving. Your marriage has been in a bit of a rough spot lately, and you were hoping today would be a bit of a turning point. Little did you know that as you arrived at Kobayashi Tower, a group of terrorists were securing the building and rounding up everyone inside as hostages. You managed to elude them, but your wife has been taken and is somewhere in the building.
Now, you’ll have to work your way through the skyscraper, take out the terrorists, and rescue your wife while the terrorists try to hunt you down.
Hunted: Kobayashi Tower is a fast-paced solo game that constantly presents you with tense choices. All the cards are multi-use forcing you to make quick decisions about which ones to discard and which ones to activate. You’ll have to balance running, fighting, and hiding if you want to save your wife and get out of the building alive.
This game in the Hunted series uses a dice-rolling mechanism to resolve events and combat.
—description from the designer
HUNTED: MINING COLONY 415
You were on your way back to earth after a year-long mission when a distress beacon abruptly roused you from hypersleep. The message was mostly static, but it was obvious that something terrible was happening at Mining Colony 415.
Once you and your crew landed and started looking around, unidentified lifeforms started wreaking havoc. During the chaos, everyone got split up and you don’t know if anyone is alive or dead. Even Sprinkles, the ship’s cat, is missing.
You just heard over the colony’s announcement system that the self-destruct protocol has been activated, so you’ll have to race back to Landing Pad 7 to get aboard your ship and get out of there before everything explodes… and you’ll have to do it while being hunted by the aliens.
Hunted: Mining Colony 415 is a fast-paced solo game that constantly presents you with tense choices. All the cards are multi-use forcing you to make quick decisions about which ones to discard and which ones to activate. You’ll have to balance running, fighting, and hiding if you want to get off the planet alive.
This game in the Hunted series uses a dexterity mechanic to resolve events and combat.
—description from the designer
Ages | 14+ |
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Players | Solo, 2 Players |
Play Time | 15m – 25m |
Designer | Gabe Barrett |
Mechanics | Push Your Luck, Solo / Solitaire Game, Dice Rolling |
Theme | Card Game, Dice |
Publisher | Barrett Publishing, Treetato Studio |
charlest
This is an interesting little Die Hard solo card game. You can tell Gabe Barrett's heart is in it: hiding and sneaking around is a core concept, navigating the deck feels like an extended maze of obstacles, violence punctuates the tableau management and is over briskly. True, it's a very random little thing but the game does offer ways to mitigate that element, albeit in a limited fashion. The difficulty feels pretty good, but it can be uneven as a string of bad luck can really do you in and in other plays you may get an early machine gun and breeze through it with some luck. The main pull is the tension woven into the row of cards. Do you hide and wipe the row, possibly losing some good cards to avoid a fight? Do you push your luck a bit and keep drawing? It's not incredibly deep or novel, but it works and it places that suspense at the heart of play. Kobayashi Tower is primarily entertaining. It's not a heavily strategic affair and you will see most all it has to offer pretty rapidly, but it's a neat little experience of running a gauntlet and staying in the shadows.
MrJet
I have a hard time to get back to this game. Seems like a good solo game, but there is something off about it. Need to play more before a final review
spike8888
This has similar game flow to the Hunted: Mining Colony 415 game, but this is based on the Die Hard franchise and involves dice rolling rather than dexterity for tests/combat. This is its downfall for me because the luck of the draw of the Hunted deck plus dice rolling really can lead to some bad luck streaks. There is dice mitigation in the form of other cards you can draw, but a bad draw streak could mean you never get to collect very many of those. Ultimately, I found Hunted: Mining Colony 415 to be the better balanced and more fun game.