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Description provided by GMS Magazine - Role Playing Games on YouTube:
Few maritime tragedies have fascinated humanity like the Titanic. The horrific and needless death of more than one thousand humans product of the arrogance and carelessness of humans who thought were above mistakes and oversights still haunt us and teaches us lessons we should have never had to learn.
Based on that, you'd think inappropriate to make a game about that event, but yet, that's exactly what Ludonaute have done and they've turned it into a cooperative game in which you have to work together to save as many people as possible in as little time as you can.
With a very interesting board and some serious amount of attention to detail and theme, this game promises and looks good at first sight.
But are the contents of the box good enough to justify the amount of money you have to pay to get your hands on this game?
Let's find out!
Mainly reviews. SOS Titanic is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 16 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
1 - 5 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About SOS Titanic, from BoardGameGeek:
At 23:40 on April 14, 1912 in the North Atlantic, the R.M.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg. Water immediately floods into the liner's compartments and the ship is listing to starboard in a worrying way. There is no hope about the outcome. On board, there is widespread panic.
Alone, or co-operating with other crew members, you must show presence of mind and do the right thing to save as many passengers as possible. Time is short...
The card game SOS Titanic uses a mechanism similar to Patience, with the cards representing passengers who must be arranged on the decks, then placed in the lifeboats in a particular order. As one of the crew members, you and your teammates need to move and arrange these passengers as quickly as you can. Each section of the Titanic holds a pile of cards of which only the first is available.
On their turn, a player draws a few cards from the main deck and tries to move passengers out of the sinking ship onto the lifeboats. Failing to move at least one passenger or needing to reshuffle the main deck might cause one section of the ship to sink, thus reducing the number of piles available as well as the hopes of those still on board. Players can also use action cards to step in at fateful times when things otherwise seem lost. The game ends when the ship has sunk completely or when all remaining passengers have been saved.