Deep Sea Adventure Boost - Award-Winning Japanese Push Your Luck Game | Play Both Boost & Original Versions | 2-6 Players | Ages 8+

Me encantó excelente componentes muy competitivo

Fun push-your-luck style card game. Easy to play. Better with a group, but can be played with just 2 players. The cards and tile-type pieces are typical cardboard. Overall a fun little game that takes up about the same amount of space as a deck of cards.

Oink Games is a small Japanese publisher of little boxes that contain tiny games of immense fun. One of the company's first games was Deep Sea Adventure, a hit that established Oink's reputation for delivering a lot of game for the ultra-portable size and the low cost.Deep Sea Adventure Boost is a 10-year anniversary refresh of Deep Sea Adventure. The original was brilliant, but the new Boost addition makes it even more fun.GAMEPLAYYou and the other players are divers from a submarine exploring for treasure in the ocean. You have limited air from the sub's air hose for exploration, and the deeper you descend for the more valuable treasure, the more likely you are to run out of air and lose everything you gained. How low will you descend to beat the other players to the more valuable treasure? Because the player with the most treasure points wins.This new Boost version adds the option to roll an extra die to see if you can descend farther than on the standard two-die roll. The gotcha is that using Boost depletes the air faster for everyone. Carrying treasure already depletes the air you use, so Boost becomes a greater liability. But if it means going deeper for better treasure or getting back to the sub before all the air is gone, it may be a risk you take.Descent means traversing sets of tiles with hidden values underneath. Deeper tile sections score more treasure points. Players roll the dice to see how far they can move down the tiles (or up, if they have decided to go back to the sub with their bounty), and they can choose to take the tile they are on for its hidden treasure value. At some point, a player can decide the air level on the sub is too risky and choose to turn around. If players can't make it back to the sub before the air runs out, they lose all their treasure, which falls to the bottom of the ocean in valuable piles—making descending deeper next time more enticing.The components are excellent, with cute, wooden diving meeples, treasure tiles in four different colors and shapes, a sub, and some marking cubes.The game is fast to learn and plays in about 30 to 45 minutes. Plays 2 to 6, ages 8+. At 4.25" x 2.5" x 1.5", the box is tiny for the amount of game it packs, and it's easy to pop in a fanny pack for a quick play elsewhere.THOUGHTSWe loved Deep Sea Adventure when it came out, and Deep Sea Adventure Boost makes it even better. Every time we play this, it's a hit with new players, and there's plenty of laughter as people's luck goes south. Everybody loves push-your-luck games. The fact that you can take it anywhere, teach it quickly, and play fast makes Deep Sea Adventure Boost a practically perfect game for everyone. Absolutely worthy of a five-star rating, and the kind of classic game everyone should own.

The game is just okay. Kind of small. Not much repeatability. I would have returned it but we already opened it and I felt back about returning it.

First off, I really enjoy the original Deep Sea Adventure and have introduced it to many friends over the years. I was very eager to try the new Boost variant and it did not disappoint. The main difference is using three dice instead of two (players roll all three and choose two), which offers some really nice choices. It certainly helps with further movement, but also helps if you want to land on a specific spot. The second change is that players can choose to "boost" before rolling, which uses 1 extra oxygen but allows them to use all three dice. This can certainly help when trying to move as fast as possible, but can also be useful in just consuming oxygen faster if you're back near the sub and want to leave your opponents stranded. Burning through oxygen sounds selfish, but it sometimes allows you to get back to the sub quicker and stop consuming any on future turns, which can help. Overall, I found the decision of when to boost an interesting addition. You're still at the mercy of the rolls, but it can certainly help mitigate things a bit.There are plenty of reviews available for Deep Sea Adventure so I mainly wanted to focus on the differences, but overall I really enjoy this new version. I also appreciate that it includes a set of the original dice if you just want to play without the Boost rules, so there's no reason to buy the old version over this one. I think the only thing negative I could say is that there is an obvious luck element in both the rolling and scoring, which might frustrate some players, and the little box is a bit tough to open. For a light quick game like this I'm much more forgiving of luck-reliance and any negatives are easily outweighed by the clever and unique theme and gameplay. I would have happily recommended the game in its original form, and am even more eager to recommend this new version!

This is a fun push your luck game. I like how portable it is. Because the "board" is a bunch of tokens, it's a little difficult to pull out in a setting like a restaurant or bar. There's some setup and tear down involved and it's not an easy setup to slide around.That being said, this is a quick fun push your luck game that can be setup quickly in a small amount of space. While it doesn't appeal to me at 2 players, I think it's a lot of fun at 3 or 4 players. It doesn't overstay its welcome and it feels like a game of chicken where you aren't just pushing your luck with yourself but also against other players.A great little game to have in one's collection and very accessible for all ages and levels of experience. It's push your luck, so it's not going to appeal to players who bristle at random elements, but even for them the game is fortunately brief.