Watch “Dungeon Crawler Combo,” a board game video for What Lies Beneath from Fervent Workshop - Chris Scaffidi on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Fervent Workshop - Chris Scaffidi on YouTube:
Two great dungeon-crawlers ran on Kickstarter in October-November 2023.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ferventworkshop/dungeon-crawler-combo-print-and-play-pnp-solo-multiplayer
WHAT LIES BENEATH
A solo dungeon-crawler of dice, decisions and death
1 player / Ages 14+ / 1-2 hours
https://ferventworkshop.com/what-lies-beneath/
DUNGEON MAKER DELUXE (dry erase edition)
A draft-and-write dungeon-builder and dungeon-crawler
1-6 players / Ages 13+ / 45-60 minutes
https://ferventworkshop.com/dungeon-maker-deluxe/
Art adapted from Jason Glover, Gibbs Santos, public domain and creative commons. Music by www.AdamVitovsky.com
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.