Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island
2012

Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island

1-4

players

120

min

14+

age

Categories

Adventure
Exploration
Fighting
Novel-based
Territory Building

Mechanics

Action Queue
Area Movement
Cooperative Game
Dice Rolling
Die Icon Resolution

Community Tags

Description

--- "Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island" is a cooperative survival game where shipwrecked crew members build settlements, manage hazards, and uncover island mysteries through scenarios. Key mechanics include: - *Cooperative gameplay* Players work together as one of four roles: cook, carpenter, explorer, or soldier. - *Survival challenges* Build shelters, palisades, weapons, tools; gather food; fight beasts; endure weather. - *Resource and construction management* Use object and structure cards to develop settlements over in-game weeks. - *Event-driven exploration* Hundreds of event cards reveal secrets like pirate treasures, villages, underground cities, or cursed temples. - *Scenario objectives* Six engaging scenarios with unique goals, starting with signal fires for rescue before new adventures. Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island is a cooperative board game where players embody shipwreck survivors—cook, carpenter, explorer, or soldier—stranded on a deserted island facing survival challenges like constructing shelters, palisades, weapons, and tools; foraging for food; combating wild beasts; and shielding against weather fluctuations. Players collectively steer the game's narrative, shaping their settlement through hundreds of event, object, and structure cards over multiple in-game weeks. They pursue discoveries such as pirate treasures, abandoned villages, underground cities, or cursed temples, guided by goals in six distinct scenarios that begin with igniting a wood pile signal fire for rescue, evolving into deeper adventures and mysteries. ---

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