The Dark Quarter
Lucky Duck Games · 2025 · RPG, Board Game, Choose Your Own Adventure, 1980s, Supernatural
PC
6 user reviews67% · 6
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About The Dark Quarter
This application is a digital companion for The Dark Quarter board game from Lucky Duck Games.The Dark Quarter is a cooperative digital hybrid adventure game that tells a rich, dynamic story through a multi-scenario campaign. Players are invited to make critical decisions that will not only affect their characters but also change the course of the narrative itself. Characters are not simply avatars, easily replaceable from one scenario to the next; instead, they are woven into the very fabric of the story. Their destiny and the destiny of New Orleans are inextricably linked.The game is a digital hybrid, mixing physical components with the app. Players move their miniatures around the map, roll dice to perform tests, and scan QR codes printed on cards to use items. The app guides the use of physical components, provides narration, and describes the results of the players’ actions.
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⠀9 found this helpful
This game was a huge misfire for me. I love Lucky Duck games. Destinies is in my top 10 board games. The dialogue in this is so poor. Swearing and cursing in a game like this makes sense, but the writer wields it with all of the finesse of a Machiavellian 12 year-old behind the school portables. All of the game needs to be read aloud, which can be a good thing, but the characters and dialogue don't lend themselves to be fun to read. Annie Christmas was the only character who wasn't angry to see us. Everyone but her is surly or outright hostile. At some point, we stopped using most of the physical components, because a lot of locations only hung around for one player's turn, and then disappeared. The item deck was the only needed item. We didn't finish it. We played 5-8 Intermissions and then realized that it was never going to get better. We were never going to feel like detectives, we were just going to be playing along with a poorly-written digital novel that would drag us from event to event, while degrading our skill tracks as we went. I can't believe they released this as written. A whole rewrite should have been considered in order to make both the story and dialogue enj…3 found this helpful
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