Osprey Games The Lost Expedition: A Game Of Survival In The Amazon

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

It's a nice thematic game wherein you are trying to reach the lost city of El Dorado and along the way you will be encountering various problems in the jungle. You can play this game solo or in co operative mode with other players. There is a competitive variant of the game as well. There aren't many rules and it's very easy to teach this game to kids. Theme comes out nicely. Description on each card makes sense. Off lately i have refrained from buying games from Amazon because apart from certain small box games, every other game i ordered got delivered with littlrle to large damages . This time i took a chance because i saw this game could be delivered in 2-3 days which is a rarety with Osprey Games. I am glad that this is the first time i have received a game with no dents and scuffing on the box. Packaging was nothing great to talk about. It was inside a brown paper bag(courier bag). I think the game was in good storage condition by the seller and secondly the package was handled well by the logistics this time. A gamer can not be more happier if he/she receives a game in perfect condition...

Original product was delivered by Sunrise Bookstore well before delivery date. Good service by amazon. The game itself is gorgeous with amazing artwork and engaging play.

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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.

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.

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

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?

This review is for the SOLO play variant only. The same game can however be played 'head to head' by two players competitively, or by 2 to 5 players cooperatively. First of all the packaging and artwork on the cards are superb. The whole thing just feels 'quality' and, in my opinion, has lots of atmosphere. The game itself is very compelling and, whilst there is a 'luck of the draw' element when it comes to the cards, the player does have some control over the order in which they're played. This requires careful thought, strategy and planning which makes the game challenging and interesting. Every game is different and I never get bored. If you spend time reading and thinking about each card as it's played you can really get into the atmosphere of the game. This is what really makes it for me. In standard [solo] set up the game is extremely difficult to win. Infact, in my experience, it's near impossible. I've found that increasing the starting amount of health per explorer (from 3 to 4), ammunition (from 3 to 4) and food (from 3 to 6) balances the game up a lot better and brings a near even (50%) win rate. For me this makes playing far more enjoyable as you feel 'in with a chance'. The game comes with a comprehensive instruction booklet. Additionally I found watching a couple of independent 'how to' YouTube videos very helpful in terms of enhancing my understanding of exactly how to play the game. An expansion pack called 'The Fountain of Youth' is available to buy separately. That said, even without this, the base game is superb, challenging and has a real 'just one more attempt' allure. I do have the expansion pack but have not yet used it. However, having looked through it, I'd say it will definitely add some very interesting extra dimensions to the game which can only increase it's already compelling playability. Overall 5 stars, all day long.