The Lost Expedition: A Game of Survival in the Amazon

I love that this is a solo game. My 6 and 4 year old love to help me. It’s really hard to win and there is alot going on and a lot of stratagy in such a simple game. If you need a game to play by yourself this is THE GAME TO PLAY! it can also be played as 2 player, I’ve only done that a couole of times. My boys love the graphics on the cards. They have a snake and a jungle cat that can give you meat or injure you. They have natives that can be bad, good or indifferent depending on how you play the game. Each game is never the same so you’ve never get bored of it. I have one kid in carge of injuring the people, eating or gaining food and the bullets. The other is in charge of pulling the cards and we decide together how we want to play the cards. We all enjoy it.

I have a pocket sized collection of games, and love Curious Expedition. This is my traditional way of playing it so to speak. It makes me very happy. I wish sometimes there were either more interaction or less punishing mechanics. You can add that with the expansion but I don't think it'll fit in the box right. Likewise, the tokens just go in a baggie bc otherwise they fly everywhere. The box is beau-ti-ful and opens like a fancy box of chocolates or something. It's a good game, but I would look up play-throughs and see if you'd actually like to play it.

I've only made one attempt to reach the lost city of Z. It didn't end well. The art in this game is fantastic. The theme is cool. You play as a group of 3 explorers trying to trek through a perilous jungle and reach Z. But the jungle is harsh. There are many dangers in your path. The trick is in selecting the right cards to play, and in an order that you can survive. I've only played solo mode, but there is also a cooperative mode, and a competitive mode. The cards are huge (80x120mm), which is nice, but means that some people will find it difficult to shuffle. It also takes more table space. But the art is top notch Rin Tin Tin style, so big is nice.... But maybe they should release a pocket version? I can't really comment on the balance after only a single play. Can you usually win with skill? I don't know. Maybe luck plays a large role? I will return to the review if I ever find out. So far, it's fun. It is also really easy to scale. If you find it too difficult, there are several ways to make it easier, from making the path shorter to giving yourself more food, ammo, health, and/or explorers. So I'm saying that it doesn't have to be hard if you don't mind cheating a little.

This game is really difficult, but you can always give yourself additional advantages by increasing the amount of health your characters have at the start, or by limiting the number of movements needed to reach the end goal. I have played the game about five times, and I have only won a single time (no deviation from suggested solo rules). The game is a fairly quick play, and the strategy needed to progress is both diverse and engaging. Do not buy this game, however, if you do not like a challenge or if you believe that there should always be a way to overcome misfortune. I have found myself hopelessly lost, without any reasonable means of salvation and on the brink of disaster over and over again playing this game. Very little happens in the jungle that doesn't kill you, apparently. This really adds a sense of urgency and excitement to this game, even when playing alone. You will lose. . . a lot. The one victory I have had with this game was satisfying as a result of the dire odds. The game is not too rules heavy and the set-up is simple and quick. Gameplay is engaging and offers a lot of different challenges around the management of your few resources. There is even an element of luck that comes with the shuffling of the deck of cards, but the strategy elements do a nice job of giving you some way to balance the random nature of the card draws. In short, this game is a pretty good time without requiring hours of rule study and execution.

The Tintin-inspired art and lettering font used in the box image of this game are what drew me to this game initially, and curiosity took over from there. Indeed, the art on the inside of the box (on all the game materials) is just as spectacular. This is the game that takes place after English explorer Percy Fawcett (recall last year's movie "Lost City of Z") vanishes in the Brazilian jungle at the turn of the century. It is a collaborative game, in which players interactively "control" (to the extent possible) three explorers who are making their way through the jungle to the Lost City of Z, aka El Dorado. Explorers face interesting challenges and must balance food supplies, ammunition, and health. Occasionally an explorer succumbs and dies along the way. If at least one explorer survives all the way to El Dorado, then all the players win. If all the explorers die before reaching El Dorado, then all the players lose. The game mechanics are ingenious, combining random elements with a good amount of player agency, so that players really do feel that they are active contributors to the outcome, not just ruled by chance. There are strategies in this game that become apparent only after a few plays, so the game promises to become even more engaging over time. I have a 9-year-old daughter and from the product description thought this game might be too complicated, but after watching a "watch it played" video on YouTube decided to go with it. The same video was very helpful in explaining the rules to my daughter, and now she's a pro!

Enjoyable solo and coop gaming experience. Game presents itself as a tactical puzzle - where you're faced with difficult decisions. You are a team that is trying to reach the lost city of city, facing many obstacles a long the way. The game structure is straightforward - each round has a morning and evening stage that dictate the order in which cards will be played to the communal tableau. Afterwards the cards are resolved. Each card typically presents some combination of action that you are forced to take, several choices from which you have to pick one, and optional actions. You are juggling between gathering resources, spending resources and moving your team to the finish line. Fun game that can be played in 30min, great vehicle for story telling (e.g. today the explorers went on a morning hike and encountered a jaguar. Unfortunately we had ran out of bullets so the long and strenuous detour caused Yves exhaustion, -1 health... Etc) There is a little random element due to luck of the draw with the deck, but the game isn't long enough to feel like that's a horrible punishment... Overall, easy to teach and fun to play experience.

I grew up reading Tintin and American superhero comics. As an adult, board, card and miniatures games became a hobby. Within that interest, I grew to appreciate and love solitaire games. The Lost Expedition hits a lot of sweet spots for me in the aforementioned interests and so, this review is from a solo player's view The game plays puzzle-y, tense and challenging, the artwork is superb in the European clean line style and the presentation is gorgeous! The card size is that of Tarot, I believe. The box is a single piece with the box lid as a hinge. The replay value is there as the deck is not only shuffled, but the cards from it and the player's hand are sorted and managed first in numerical order during Morning hikes and, however the player sees fit, in the Evening excursion. A truly entertaining game with exceptional presentation. Nice work to designer Peer Sylvester , artist Garen Ewing and of course, Osprey Games.

From a game design standpoint, this is a good, challenging game. I have played solo and coop (and never won!) although not the competitive mode (which looks good). The production is excellent, with large, colorful cards, high-quality cardboard tokens, and eye-popping, Hergé-inspired artwork and blocky Tintin fonts. The game mechanics are clever and simple and the system is smooth, easy-to-learn, and thematic. The issue I have with this game is that I find the illustrations to be, in some cases, rather gruesome, as are the narrative events they describe. When you're playing with kids, as I have, this casts a bit of a shadow over the activity. "Oh look, everyone , it's...hookworms!" Or ants, or piranhas, etc. And the characters die terrible deaths. I have come to view the deck with a sense of dread. The game has infused this deck with an actual sense of danger; I tip my hat to them for that. My problem with the game is entirely about the tone and feel. The original Hergé artwork was always shot through with humor, and his physical comedy if fantastic. The artist for this game has outwardly imitated the style but the humor is absent. It looks like a kids' game, but in fact it's pretty grim. It's a fine game, mechanically, and if theme suits you, then I do recommend it. I'm not sure it's for me.

Es muy entretenido para jugarlo en solitario. El juego viene en inglés pero es facil de entender las instrucciones, si se tiene dificultad ver los tutoriales en español que hay en Youtube. Aunque la dependencia del idioma al jugarlo es casi ninguna. Llegó muy bien empaquetado y en perfectas condiciones, sin retraso ninguno.

Sehr schnelle Lieferung in 3 Tagen von AMAZON Großbritannien. Das Spiel selbst ist in einer stabilen Schachtel, die sich zur Abwechslung seitlich öffnen lässt. Sehr hochwertige Spielkarten mit aufwendigen Illustrationen. Man begibt sich mit 3 Entdeckern auf eine Expedition in den Dschungel, mit dem Ziel Eldorado zu finden. Doch das ist gar nicht so leicht, weil unterwegs eine Menge Gefahren lauern. Es gibt verschiedene Stämme, mehr oder weniger angriffslustig, man kann sich verletzen, von Schlangen bedroht werden, das Essen kann knapp werden und vieles mehr. Das Spiel lässt sich Solo, Kooperativ oder Gegeneinander spielen. Habe es bisher nur Solo getestet und bin kurz vor Eldorado gescheitert. Was mich nicht vor weiteren Versuchen abhält, im Gegenteil. Man muss viele strategische Entscheidungen treffen, aber das Glück beim Ziehen der Karten spielt auch eine Rolle. Soweit ich weiß, gibt es das Spiel nur in englischer Sprache, was aber kein Problem ist, weil es eine deutsche Übersetzung der Spielregeln zum kostenlosen Download im Netz gibt. Die Spielkarten selbst arbeiten mit Symbolen, sind also allgemein verständlich. Wer sich für das Thema interessiert und sich von Rückschlägen nicht so leicht entmutigen lässt, dem kann ich dieses spannende Spiel empfehlen.

Muy clever. Jirnbilsyrado. Y con un destacable modo de un jugador. Es una gran experiencia para jugadores nuevos y experimentados.

The product, packaging and the concept of the game is great

Very easy to learn, hard to master game in which you lead your team through the jungle to find the lost city of el dorado. Basically you've got a some food, some bullets, a bunch of hp and other survival skills, and you deal from the deck of card 6 encounters in the morning, and 6 in the evening. These are things you'd encounter in the jungle. For example, if you encounter a snake, you could lose a bullet but gain food. Or if you had no bullet....you'd lose an HP. The whole game is oriented around you managing your resources so that you can deal with these encounters, while hoping to get the encounter card that allows you to move forward in your travel. Survive long enough to find 8 of these, and you will find El dorado. Simple, right? Its very addictive. You try your best to save your resources or your teammate so that you can live to see the next morning. Best yet, takes 1 minute to setup, and 1 minute to take down. Great game. The cards and components are top quality, and I love the art style - as someone else said, Tintin art style. Now can we get a mini version of this game so i can pocket it on the go?