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Feb 21, 2022·Review·09:17·2·Watch on YouTube

Library Labyrinth Review - 5 reasons why you should be excited about this game on Kickstarter

BoxedMeeples

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Watch “Library Labyrinth Review - 5 reasons why you should be excited about this game on Kickstarter,” a board game review on BoardGameVideo.

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Libby and Julian have been provided a prototype of an Exciting upcoming Kickstarter called Library Labyrinth from UK Based indie publisher Dissent Games. Library Labyrinth sees players trying to escape from a library, which has been overrun with monsters. In order to defeat the monsters, they must call on the skills of famous fictional characters and historical figures from the books around them. Made up of Jessica Metheringham (creator of Disarm the Base), joined by Mill Goble (VR and Escape Room designer), Artists Samantha Grieve and Ella Royer are portraying over 100 literary and historical characters, plus obstacles and monsters, and stunning box and board artwork Library Labyrinth is a co-operative game for 1-5 players, and takes approximately 45-60 minutes to play. Bookmarks 00:32 Inspirational Women 01:45 Wide Appeal 04:09 Variability 05:35 Clever Mechanics 07:38 Entertaining and Educational Motion Backgrounds by: "#AAvfx" https://www.youtube.com/dvdangor2011 Music: Traveller by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Now we Ride by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Drifting Minds by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Beyond the Horizon by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Adventure by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Library Labyrinth

Library Labyrinth

2023·Mill Goble, Jessica Metheringham

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Mainly reviews. Library Labyrinth is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 4 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 1 unboxings, and 1 other video.

1 - 5 players
30 - 60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Library Labyrinth, from BoardGameGeek:

Build a team of amazing fictional and historical women to put escaped literary terrors back in their books! Can the Lady of Shalott defeat Dracula? Or Heidi and Ada Lovelace overcome a Kraken? Can Nzinga and Mary Seacole deal with the Martian Robots from War of the Worlds? Library Labyrinth is a co-operative board game set in a cursed library that plays in about 45-60 minutes for 2-5 players and around 30 minutes as a solo game. The play space is a grid of 25 octagonal tiles that can rotate and flip, revealing (and changing) parts of the library. Some tiles spawn literary terrors, which players need to defeat by drafting different book cards from their hands. These book cards each feature a fictional or historical woman with a combination of six different skills. Team up different cards to defeat specific terrors, then travel through the library to place the terrors back on the correct shelves. The curse is still at work in the library, however, undoing your good work, so make sure that you don't run out of time or let the library become overwhelmed... In more detail, on your turn you can pick up cards, trade cards, flip or rotate floor tiles, move down a lit path (as shown on the floor tiles), capture a terror, or put a terror back in the right shelf. You have three actions available with the option to donate one action to another player. After each player turn, a curse disturbance card is drawn, which disrupts the playing area by rotating a tile or spawning a new terror. When all six shelves have been filled with a captured terror, you win; if the deck of curse cards runs out or six terrors are left on the library floor before this happens, the game is lost. Library Labyrinth is a quick game leading to ridiculous character mash-ups. Of course Alice in Wonderland and Marie Curie can deal with the Big Bad Wolf! The game can also scale between a game suitable for ten-year-olds and a fiendish puzzle. Floor tiles can be swapped out to make a harder grid, more difficult monsters can be used, or the amount of time can be reduced. Each game also comes with a booklet about the characters and the literary terrors in the game.

Designers

Mill Goble, Jessica Metheringham

Artists

Samantha Grieve, Ella Royer

Publisher

Dissent Games

Categories

MazeBooks & Novels

Mechanics

Cooperative GameGrid Movement
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