Deep Sea Adventure Review - with Zee Garcia 

we have a very fun time with this one. It's brilliant, tense, cut throat, hilarious. Those less than positive things Zee mentions are actually fun parts of the game. The game is fast so no one is dead long. If you dive deep and die I promise you will adjust your strategy next time.

The "group think" issue Zee criticizes is the very point of this game, and in my gaming group we see it as a strength rather than a weakness. It's hilarious when (almost) everybody drowns because some coward returned early, using up as much oxygen as he could on the way up.

most of the people (of the meetup group in Antwerp) that I playing with it, drowns the first round, figure it out at the second round, (but does the same thing to shorten the way to the treasures!) and on the third round we all - most of the time - get some treasure. TO be honest, everything is great fun with the game. Even if people loose, they find it a funny game. As the cat. does say: it's a "push-your-luck-game". ))

I don't know what's weird about the winning strategy described. It's a push your luck game and choosing to mitigate risk is how you win such a game. This game is a delight and one of the best push your luck games I've seen because outcomes are dependent on other player behavior rather than sheer luck (like Quacks of Quedlinburg, for example).

New people tend to do that group think. But like any good game people are not experts at it on the first play. They will quickly learn the group think strategy is not a good strategy. Instead, what might happen is people will tank the first round on purpose. Go down and pick up as many low value tokens as possible just so in the next two rounds it is easier to get at the high value tokens. This is one of my go to quick fillers. Works with everyone I have played it with.

I don't see the issue at all that you are saying. Yes, my very first game of this I tried (just like most everyone I show it to) to go far down. Then I realized there are 3 rounds for a reason. You go to the 2 MAYBE 3 dots first (obviously depends on everyone else and dice rolls) then you come back. The next time those big treasures are closer to the surface. Finally on the last round they are much closer to the surface. I think that if people continuously are dying after 2 games of this it's because they didn't adjust and realize what the game offered/how it worked.

I love how Magical Athlete is still there after the time... and the box is half opened behind Zee... That game rocks! :)))

If people are constantly adjusting strategy this shouldn't happen, someone should clock on to get lower numbers and then suddenly there's a rush quick profit ...a lot of it is based on judgement of oxygen so perhaps people dont do that well enough?

Played this for the first time last night at a local boardgame café. very fun game, Quick to learn and did not get boring.

Just picked this up a few weeks ago and it has quickly become one of my favorite "small" games

Why is it weird Zee? That sounds hilarious!

I do like Zee's reviews. He's real and doesn't sugar coat it. If he likes it, he tells you. If he doesn't, he'll let you know.

This game works quite well with my 5 year old. Just the right level of counting for her. 3+2 = 5. ... but then -1 so 4?

Played it last night. We died a bunch of times, it was great! Seriously though, it was pretty neat. Despite the rules not being very clear (esp. for people reading it at 3 in the morning...)

Wait... at 3:53 yellow rolls a 4 minus the 1 treasure they have makes it a 3. But you counted 3 spaces and counted the space red was on as a space. They should have gone up one more space no? Because just earlier at 3:16 red rolls a 6 and you skipped counting the spaces that blue and yellow were on, so really they moved 8 spaces. I am so confused now on proper way to move....

It's a push your luck game. What do you thinks going to happen if you push it to it's limit every game?

Maybe u play with super risktakers Zee, who also dont learn their r lesson after round one :P

TMG needs to make a deluxe version. :-)

That your group making the wrong choice with going too deep too soon. It’s part of the strategy you deploy. Will be picking this game up.

This is a fantastic filler and the group think sometimes adds to the amusement ("you realize we're all going to die").

I think you should get more oxygen if more players

I'm making a big box game with a similar feel to it. Push your luck try to get out in time. My publisher won't let me kill the players who don't get out in time anymore... But it seems to me that's what makes it exciting like in this game...

This seems like a way better implementation of incan gold

I remember someone asking a US publisher if they would consider picking this game up for a US release and the publisher's response was a no because they said the game was broken. They never went into detail as to why, though. Any idea what they might have been talking about? I really dig this game, so I haven't encountered anything broken yet. Definitely a head-scratcher.

Wow. I gotta pick this up. This is a great filler. :)

Echoing your experience, Zee. I want to like this game, but every time I do, people die repeatedly and don't want to play again.

Didn’t you say you skip a person but you didn’t skip on the yellow guy on his 2nd turn. Confusing?