Curious Expedition

Pretty fun little expedition roguelike. The first few hours are great: build a party, manage supplies and sanity, then one random event completely ruins your plan. Those little disaster stories are probably the best part of the game. It does get repetitive once you've seen the same events a few times, and sometimes RNG just decides your run is over. The dice combat feels a bit weird at first, but works fine. Not something I'd play for hundreds of hours, but definitely worth a few runs, especially on sale.

Impressive. Very nice.

Turn-based "roguelike" puzzle game. This game is tough. And very much replayable. You can choose your starting character and each character has a very different playstyle. You play through six expeditions where you are racing against other explorers to find the exit (golden pyramid) and as many valuable artifacts as you can. To win you need to not die and to score more points than your computer opponents. Exploring is tough, you need water, food, and other resources, and have to survive attacks from wild animals and the dangers of the environment. You will need to constantly manage resources, occasionally make difficult decisions, occasionally trust to be a bit of luck and when you die you can try again. It's a tough learning curve. Once you win your first game you'll find that you will do well in most games, you definitely get better at the game. I love it.

good

I paid $3.23 for this in 2024, and I have a rule for putting in an hour of gameplay per dollar. I'm glad I didn't spend $15, because this isn't really a $15 game. Definitely a $10 game. Part of it is due to the roguelike element, part of it is due to the combat sequences (I just can't seem to enjoy a game with a random dice roll). BUT it is a fun game, especially if you get it on sale.

I played this on vacation without knowing much about it but it was such a vibe. Lovely game, I enjoyed it lots.