The Captain is Dead
Thunderbox Entertainment · 2021 · Strategy, Board Game, Space, Survival, Atmospheric
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 66
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About The Captain is Dead
Based on the frantic and fun board game, The Captain is Dead puts you in charge of crew members on a besieged starship. You must co-ordinate the crew to repair critical systems and fend off hostile aliens, or you will share the captain’s fate. From the Chief Engineer, Weapons Officer, and visiting Admiral, all the way down to the Ensign and the ship’s Janitor, you must combine your unique talents to avoid utter annihilation in the cold depths of space!
Step into the Captain's chair and command the crew! Each team member has a very particular set of skills that you'll need to leverage to the full if you want to survive, including...
- Admiral - A master of plans and evasion.
- Cyborg - Immune to the mysterious forces of deep space.
- Crewman - Gets killed very easily... good thing there is an infinite supply!
- Counselor - Can manipulate skills for the best chance of success.
- Ensign - A fast learner, and even faster runner.
- Chief Engineer - Can fix the ship real quick.
- Soldier - An expert in kicking alien ass.
- Teleporter Chief - Beam stuff like a boss.
- Tactical Officer - Keeps the shields up, and the crew ready.
- Hologram - lasers pass right through him... just don't let the computers go down!
- Scholar - always has some space wisdom to dispense to the crew.
...with more on the way!
Defend the ship against an unknown alien nemesis that will do everything they can to blast you to atoms! Fortunately you have state-of-the-art systems to help you out...
- Bridge - Scan for threats, repair shields and communicate with your crew.
- War Room - The Captain planned ahead, and left emergency dossiers to help you out.
- Armory - Destroy alien ships with torpedoes, and activate auto-turrets to repel boarders.
- CPU Core - Power-up your crew with skills.
- Cargo Hold - Bust open the cargo pods to grab lasers, scanners, and other helpful gear.
- Infirmary - He's dead, Jim! Oh wait... no... it's just a flesh wound. That can be fixed here.
- Science Lab - Upgrade the ship, and research spooky, sub-space anomalies.
- Engineering - Fix the Jump Core to get the heck outta there!
If you can stay cool, repel the aliens, protect the crew, and keep the systems operational long enough to repair the Jump Core, then you can activate the engines and escape to Hyperspace!
Or is it Warp Speed? I can never remember...
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
They should have spent effort adding online multiplayer rather than putting in cute voices. Without the ability to play this with your friends on a Friday night, it's an easy pass. Just fire up Tabletop Simulator and play it there...it's easier to understand what's going on and your friends can play with you. This is a great game - real shame about this adaptation.1 found this helpful
I really loved the board game and had a great time. I bought this, because the devs took the game off of tabletop simulator, so I thought this would be a way to play with friends all over the country. Unfortunately they didn't put effort in to actually make the game cooperative, even when they enabled remote play. The game is always single player and you can just have a second person see the game and tell you what they want to do on their turn. That's awful and really deceptive. On top of all of that, the developers didn't even actually build a proper tutorial. They filled it with memes for the laughs, but don't actually explain what any of the stuff does, so it's assuming that you've already played the board game. Really disappointed in this, and sorry I bought it.
A solid game that matches the board game well. It's a difficult game to master as you are juggling many emergencies that need your limited resources. Well worth it if you played the board game and liked it or didn't want to buy the board game and still play it. I'm sad it doesn't come with multiplayer options as this game would be more fun with people to yell at and blame. Also there are some UI issues that make navigation or finding information a little hard. Also the internal links to things like steam leaderboards don't seem to work anymore. Buy this on 50% sale if you like board games, it's a fun one.
Really enjoy the Captain is Dead. Played it during the pandemic and it helped me stay sane.
Excellent game!
love the tabletop game but this is a poor adaption to a video game.
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