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Sub Terra is a tabletop horror-adventure game where your objective is to escape the cave before your flashlights run out or you succumb to the various hazards littered around the system. The experience was a confusing albeit an enjoyable one as well. Most of the confusion arises from the fact that My group and I didn't play many tabletop games and we had to learn the mechanics on the spot during the gameplay. Once we familiarized ourselves with the mechanics we had a little fun losing to terribly timed hazard cards and having our spawn be immediately surrounded by horrors. The game was easy to understand for a mostly video game playing audience which was great, however I still was confused with whether we were playing it correctly since we lost so often.
The game's core mechanics were easy to identify in this not-so-complicated game. You work alone or with 3 others against the game to escape the cave. The space took place on the board, where all the cave tiles and resources were present. Those resources being items like action points or health tiles to allow our characters to proceed to move about the board and do the objective, essentially allowing us to carry out the procedures while following the rules of the game. You moved in turns as tabletop game usually worked, meaning the game operated in discrete time and it didn't matter how long you took to play in the real world. Meaning you could play for 24 hours straight and still win, or lose your flashlight battery in the matter of a few minutes. Preserving the battery depended not only on skill, but also on the chances and what randomly selected hazards were chosen. It takes mental skill to know where to go and when to do so, when to risk health and action points and when to stay back. However even the best of players could be stumped by the hazard cards being activated at the worst times or being imminently entombed with 4 horrors around the cave entrance.
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My name is Mario, and am currently studying Digital Design and Game Art in DSA. This is my class blog Archives
January 2023
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