Watch “What Lies Beneath adventure book review | Review copy provided,” a board game review for What Lies Beneath from One Stop Co-op Shop on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by One Stop Co-op Shop on YouTube:
Mike reviews this solo choose your own adventure book with a dice-based action resolution system.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:35 - Stats and Leveling
1:22 - Items and Tags
2:04 - Efficient Narrative
2:50 - Branching Choices
3:48 - Varied Dice Systems
4:39 - Final Thoughts
Mainly reviews and playthroughs. What Lies Beneath is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 3 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
1 players
60 - 120 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About What Lies Beneath, from BoardGameGeek:
You dream you're in a chapel. Small, high-pitched voices sing an ancient song. Yet a sense of unease washes through you. The core is more macabre. Dream yields to waking confusion. Dust, bones and dried death. A flickering torch. Underground. A crypt.
You catch a wisp of a breeze, heavy with the stench of rot. You gag. Yet a breeze suggests a way out. You take the torch, determined to get out of here alive.
Synopsis
Structured as a branching narrative, What Lies Beneath invites you to direct the plot – but only if you master a unique combination of game mechanisms. Enjoy all the challenges of solo roleplay:
Buffing your character: Gain items that unlock new powers
Classic skill checks: Roll against thresholds to hit enemies
Intellectual puzzles: Manipulate dice using limited actions
Dexterity tests (optional): Flick dice at specified targets
And when (not if) you die, you can spend experience points to boost your next character. Perhaps, this time, you will survive.