Five heroes awoke from the dead and were made immortal to save the kingdom from the rise of darkness. In Sword & Sorcery – Immortal Souls, up to five players control one or more of these legendary characters brought back to life by powerful sorcery, to fight against the forces of evil, controlled by the game itself.
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Description from the publisher:
Sword & Sorcery is an epic-fantasy cooperative board game in which 1-5 players fight together against the forces of evil, which are controlled by the game system itself.
Each player controls one or more heroes – legendary characters brought back to life by powerful sorcery. Weakened by the resurrection, they grow stronger during their story-driven quests. By acquiring soul points during battles, the heroes’ souls regenerate, restoring their legendary status with multiple powers, magic and soul weapons, and powerful artifacts.
Designed by Gremlin Project (the same team who created Galaxy Defenders), the game system in Sword & Sorcery represents the perfect evolution of its forerunner. Gameplay is faster and dynamic, thanks to an innovative area movement and area control system, with new features never seen before in a game of this category.
Key features of Galaxy Defenders are also preserved in Sword & Sorcery, such as the advanced AI system for monsters, a high degree of character customization, and the multiple tactical options during battles. Sword & Sorcery packs, in a top-quality board game format, all the excitement of the best MMORPGs and action RPGs, to provide the ultimate heroic fantasy board game adventure.
This base game contains ACT I of III.
| Ages | 12+ |
|---|---|
| Mechanics | Action Point Allowance System, Area Movement, Cooperative Play, Dice Rolling, Modular Board, Variable Player Powers |
| Play Time | 60m – 90m |
| Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players |
| Publisher | Devir, GaGa Games, Gremlin Project, Ares Games, Galakta, Heidelberger Spieleverlag |
| Theme | Fighting, Miniatures, Adventure, Fantasy |
| Designer | Nunzio Surace, Simone Romano |
Andi80
Really good dungeon crawler. The rules feel a bit overwhelming at the beginning, but once you get through it and played some rounds it feels good.
Alecevergreen
Solido comparto regolistico, pochi oggetti fra cui scegliere, mal bilanciato nella fase iniziale. Decisamente influenzato dalla fortuna. Divertente
Aschenvogel
My Pros&Cons (Retail Version) + 5 Players without the need for an overlord. + The monster AI really works well and the management is distributed to all players. + Game delivers a really good dungeon crawling feeling. + Story unfolds during playing a scenario trough events and roadmarks. In the first scenario there might only be two or three options to choose from in an event but the decision making gets deeper and more meaningful as the story goes on. + Lots of dice rolling but you almost never really miss an attack just by rolling an X or something like that. + Looting treasures and leveling up your characters is fun! - Story itself (played 4 of 7 quests so far) is only mildly interesting, mostly common fantasy stuff. Partly unlogical and involuntarily comical. - Too much useless tokens! I've never used the tokens for armor, hits, etc. so far. - Insert is completely useless as soon as you punch anything out. I find that really infuriating. Just do a well thought-out one or no insert at all! - I would have preferred no separation in book of secrets and book of adventures. Just put the paragraphs of the book of secrets behind the scenario they belong to. That way you wouldn't have to constantly look up something in one of three books (rules/adventure/secrets). - In the base game are only 5 heroes and a few different types of enemies. More variety in both would have been nice (you can play all heroes on two different sides but that doesn't offer much variety in my opinion. It's basically the heroes's signature move that changes and one or two abilities per hero). - My biggest complaint: The rules are waaaaaaaay to fiddly! Man, I have never played another game in my life in which I forgot about more rules than Sword&Sorcery. I wrote a "rules summery" that took me 8 pages (Gloomhaven took me 2 and 2 for the character retirement). I constantly have to look something up either in the rule book or on several different cards. If I want to make an attack for example I have to look on my character sheet, weapon(s) and inventory item(s) and ability cards and I have to remember rules about dominating an area, focus attacks, LoS and being engaged in combat. Than I have to look on at least 2 up to 4 cards to decide what defensive values my target has. Has it resistances? Has it a defense roll? Has it armor or magical armor? Is it knocked down? Has it special defense actions? It gets better the more you play obviously but I guarantee theres always something I forget. - This belongs to the point of rule fiddliness which makes it even worse: The card design is very unstructured and overload with text and symbols. - Game comes with a reference sheet but that misses some important rules. Despite all the negative aspects I really grew to like this game after several plays. I can't really tell the reasons for this but I really like playing it and think it's a fun game.