Northstar Game Studio Oceans Board Game - Beautiful Strategy Ecosystem Game | Families, Teens & Adults - 2-4 Players, Age 12+, 90 Mins

This game is great and now a standard at my table. I had to buy the 6 player expansion because it became so popular more people wanted in. It's a cool engine game because while it is competetive in nature it has amazing ways to prevent you falling into the classic pitfalls of competitive engine games. If people start attacking you and whittling you down, you can simply build a species that makes it beneficial for yourself to be attacked, or turn it around and harm the attacker with clever use of cards. It's wild the amount of possibilities, but at the same time you never truly feel like you are really stuck on what to do next. The game also promotes keeping track of other players boards in the mechanics, which really helps to keep players alert and focused on the game without being too demanding or punishing if you don't do this. Playing without the deep deck is fine for beginners, but every single deep card is unique and if you see the size of the deck that is impressive. These cards completely change the game depending on when and how certain gameplay mechanics happen. It's amazing and a great additional challenge element for more tenured gamers. Complexity is moderate, you have to understand how to capitalize on what you are presented with in your cards, as well as the cards your opponents have played and how they may Impact you. so it's not as simple as other family games , but I would not say this is a challenging game to learn. There are a few moments where rules get a little muggy and while the FAQ reference pages are nice, it slows the game down when you are searching through rules for very weird and specific combos to make sure they work. Before continuing on, especially since that rule decision will almost always influence the next player's move. On our first game we had a situation we just had to house rule because we couldn't find the answer on any forum or FAQ. I think an individual player reference card would also have been a great benefit to this game and I will likely make my own reference cards for friends to help prevent people sharing the big ones in the box, but this is a minor, But honest complaint. All in all, amazing artwork, great print quality and fantastic game. This one is a keeper!

I love this game. I think I spend about 5 hours in a row playing it once (note: gameplay doesn't have to be that long, I just used some house rules that caused it to last longer) and was fully engaged and excited to be playing it the entire time (which isn't always true with other games I play). The artwork is beautiful and I love looking at it. It's also intriguing how different traits you can play work together, so I like the strategy of it.

It's so fun that you don't even notice how fast time goes by. And it's simple to learn, we tought not all of our group of friends would get into it, but even our none competitive friends for into building their small system not caring to much to attack and it still kept the game fun and interesting. We didn't even realized how much time we spent there until we finished and realized it was 3am. Still we played that night again to be able to use the creatures from the deep and the art is so pretty, is hard to stop drawing stuff from that deck.

It has the right amount of complexity to be entertaining, no too difficult to learn, but have room for a lot of strategy as well. The art for each card is beautiful and all the materials are nice.

I haven't played the game yet, though I sat down by myself to learn the rules and run a few mock-rounds to learn the game. Seems super fun so far. Rule book does a pretty good job at describing rules, the two player references are super helpful. Note: There are 3-4 extra acrylic fish of each color, so be sure to count them out the first time you play. The light blue will be your main color for 2 player game (100 fish), the red and dark blue are for 3 and 4 player games (20 fish each), and the yellow are the 'reserve' for end game (60 fish). Disappointed how the game was shipped in a plastic bag, so all of the corners of the box are rounded off now. Not a huge deal, I'm just OCD and like my things nice and pristine when I get them new. But it shipped in only 1 day (ordered on Saturday, came Sunday!), so that's a plus!

Fun game cute artwork super fast delivery

This game will be very familiar to those who have played Evolution and/or its expansions. It can take a little time to learn the rules, but it's not needlessly complicated or complex. Once you learn how to play, it's quite fun, and also fairly deep. The game design is superb, and the artwork is gorgeous. Highly recommended, especially for fans of Evolution!

Great

The only limited edition thing about it was the back cover. The front lid does not state limited edition as it should, and it does not contain the limited edition components which are: 15 Scenario cards (Foiled) 10 Deep cards (Foiled) 5-6 player expansion 40 Population tokens 10 Species boards 2 Bonus tokens 2 Player screens Unfortunate but I got it for a good price, so just take note before you buy!

Missing the ocean board, which makes the game more complicated to play without it. I paid a lot of money for this game, as a birthday present, but have been unable to play it properly as a result. Not happy.

Solid box with so many quality pieces , really fun to play

La caja llegó con un ligero daño por la paquetería, pero fuera de eso está bien.

Venía imcompeto, le faltan los peces de cartón