Explorers
1-4 players | Ages 8+ | 20-30 minutes
Publisher: Ravensburger, 2021
Art: Sabrina Miramon
At the beginning of Explorers, you place four landscape tiles and three different scoring tiles in your game frame. Then from your starting village, you go on an exploratory tour. Over four rounds, you expand your territory, receiving a special action for each checked box with an object in it. You receive points for provisions and gems, with a map you can place crosses on any type of terrain, and lost temples can be explored with keys - but whoever reaches the temple first receives the most points for it. Explorers contains a solo version as well as additional task tiles for experienced players, with more than a million possible game combinations.
Explorers develops some of the “flip and write” ideas from Silver & Gold and Super Mega Lucky Box, but turns them into a more involved board game. Here, you are exploring a modular map by writing on it with dry erase markers. I wanted the game to have lots of replayability, so there are countless combinations of map setups and scoring objectives. This is my first game published by Ravensburger, one of my favourite game companies. Playing their games as a child was certainly part of what kindled my love of board games!
Links
➚ Download the Explorers app at the App Store
➚ Download the Explorers app at Google Play
➚ Explorers at Ravensburger.de
➚ Explorers at BoardGameGeek