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Sleeping Gods

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Published
2021
Reach
Well known
Players
1–4
Play time
60–1200 min
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How it plays

Work together to explore the Wandering Sea, manage the Manticore’s crew, and find enough hidden totems to return home. On your turn, resolve a shipboard action and an event, then spend actions to travel, explore locations, visit ports or markets, complete quests, and face challenges or combat. The campaign ends after three event-deck cycles, with your ending and score based on your discoveries.

Main mechanics

  • Co-operative
  • Hand management
  • Legacy & campaign
  • Dice rolling
  • Co-operative: Everyone wins or loses together against the game.
  • Hand management: Timing which card to spend is the core puzzle.
  • Legacy & campaign: The game changes permanently between sessions.
  • Dice rolling: Dice create swing and force you to adapt.
Full publisher description

Are the stars unfamiliar here? she asked, and the sky grew suddenly dark, the star's patterns alien and exotic. This is the Wandering Sea. The gods have brought you here, and you must wake them if you wish to return home. In Sleeping Gods , you and up to 3 friends become Captain Sofi Odessa and her crew, lost in a strange world in 1929 on your steamship, the Manticore . You must work together to survive, exploring exotic islands, meeting new characters, and seeking out the totems of the gods so that you can return home. Sleeping Gods is a campaign game. Each session can last as long as you want. When you are ready to take a break, you mark your progress on a journey log sheet, making it easy to return to the same place in the game the next time you play. You can play solo or with friends throughout your campaign. It's easy to swap players in and out at will. Your goal is to find at least fourteen totems hidden throughout the world. Like reading a book, you'll complete this journey one or two hours at a time, discovering new lands, stories, and challenges along the way. Sleeping Gods is an atlas game. Each page of the atlas represents only a small portion of the world you can explore. When you reach the edge of a page and you want to continue in the same direction, you simply turn to a new page and sail onward. Sleeping Gods is a storybook game. Each new location holds wild adventure, hidden treasures, and vivid characters. Your choices affect the characters and the plot of the game, and may help or hinder your chances of getting home! Welcome to a vast world. Your journey starts now. description from the publisher

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