2022Helge Meissner, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Eilif Svensson, Anna Wermlund
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1 - 4 players90 - 120 minHeavy weight

2025Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Eilif Svensson, Åsmund Svensson
Mostly reviews. Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 7 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, and 1 unboxings.
From BoardGameGeek
You have finally reached the archipelago of Scoundrel Bay! Here, amidst treasures and dangers, fortune awaits any crew daring - or foolish - enough to seize it. In Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay, players are pirate captains who try to collect the most gold by conquering harbors, seeking hideouts, delivering crates, digging up treasures, and gaining reputation by fighting monsters. During the game, each player builds up their crew to unlock stronger actions such as digging for treasure, invading hideouts, and picking up and delivering crates. On your turn, play one card from your hand and choose one of three actions for it: Recruit Sail and shoot monster Invade You may not pick the same action you took on your previous turn. The deck contains 84 unique, multi‑use cards, and every card works with all three actions. After each of five reefs, you resolve an event and feed your crew. The game ends as soon as a captain crosses the fifth reef. Sailing quickly shortens the game, but racing ahead might leave your engine too weak to claim victory. In the box, you'll find unique player power tiles, asymmetric player boards, screen-printed captain figures, screen-printed pirate ship figures, 108 pirate figures, event cards, and a lot more. Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay is a high interaction game in which players compete to gain area‑majority over lucrative islands, outpace foes in an open draft of crew cards, race to engage monsters before others can, and outwit captains in tense blind bids - all without resorting to negative or take‑that attacks. -description from the designer
Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay has 10 videos from 10 creators: 7 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides and 1 unboxing. They date from 2025 to April 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "All the Games with Steph: Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay - Teach & Playthrough" by Steph Hodge, which runs 2 h 42 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Is a pirate life really for me? - Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay Board Game Review" by Board Gaming Ramblings. 7 creators have reviewed it.
If you like it, try Revive, The Magnificent, Bad Company and Trails of Tucana, also by Eilif Svensson.
8 of 10
2022Helge Meissner, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Eilif Svensson, Anna Wermlund
1 - 4 players90 - 120 minHeavy weight
2019Kristian Amundsen Østby, Eilif Svensson
1 - 4 players60 - 90 minHeavy weight
2021Kenneth Minde, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Eilif Svensson
1 - 6 players30 minLight weight
2019Kristian Amundsen Østby, Eilif Svensson
1 - 8 players15 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
You have finally reached the archipelago of Scoundrel Bay! Here, amidst treasures and dangers, fortune awaits any crew daring - or foolish - enough to seize it. In Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay, players are pirate captains who try to collect the most gold by conquering harbors, seeking hideouts, delivering crates, digging up treasures, and gaining reputation by fighting monsters. During the game, each player builds up their crew to unlock stronger actions such as digging for treasure, invading hideouts, and picking up and delivering crates. On your turn, play one card from your hand and choose one of three actions for it: Recruit Sail and shoot monster Invade You may not pick the same action you took on your previous turn. The deck contains 84 unique, multi‑use cards, and every card works with all three actions. After each of five reefs, you resolve an event and feed your crew. The game ends as soon as a captain crosses the fifth reef. Sailing quickly shortens the game, but racing ahead might leave your engine too weak to claim victory. In the box, you'll find unique player power tiles, asymmetric player boards, screen-printed captain figures, screen-printed pirate ship figures, 108 pirate figures, event cards, and a lot more. Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay is a high interaction game in which players compete to gain area‑majority over lucrative islands, outpace foes in an open draft of crew cards, race to engage monsters before others can, and outwit captains in tense blind bids - all without resorting to negative or take‑that attacks. -description from the designer
Designers
Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Eilif Svensson, Åsmund Svensson
Artists
Billy Christian, Sylvain Leroy
Publisher
Chilifox Games
Categories
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