Who doesn’t love a pirate recreation, particularly a pirate recreation that entails racing your ships round an archipelago of islands? And, extra-especially, a pirate recreation that’s at the moment on sale? Glory Islands, from Rio Grande Games, usually retails for $45, however Amazon has it on sale proper now for the oddly-specific worth of $32.17. To prevent a calculation, that is a 28% low cost. Not unhealthy.
Glory Islands for 28% Off
Glory Islands
In Glory Islands, you’ll be dropping off your scurvy crew onto the areas within the hope of successful treasure and scoring factors by way of a enjoyable mishmash of various mechanics that provides as much as a shipshape entire. Ship motion is ruled by enjoying numeric playing cards out of your hand that even have particular powers, such because the 5 permitting you to pause and drop a second pirate. But watch out, as utilizing too many high-value playing cards will value you factors at recreation finish. Occupying an island area wins you small bonuses however, as soon as an island is full, it baggage a bunch of factors for the participant with probably the most crew members there.
Glory Islands is a quick, enjoyable, family-friendly board recreation that doesn’t have the depth to maintain itself over repeat performs or for hardcore hobbyists, however it’s loads fulfilling in the event you choose it up at sale worth. Getting the stability proper between doing nicely within the race, whereas nonetheless hitting the areas that you must rating together with your crew and never incurring a penalty for crusing too recklessly is surprisingly onerous. And there’s actual rigidity in watching the place different gamers drop their sailors, as islands you assume are within the bag can swing away from you with shocking velocity.
The recreation additionally comes with neat wood ships and sailor items, plus miniature barrels of rum you possibly can stockpile to actually really feel like a miniature pirate king.
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Matt Thrower is a contributing freelance author for IGN, specializing in tabletop video games. You can attain him on BlueSky at @mattthr.bsky.social.
