Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger
The eldest was very excited about this months board game as
part of luck at being one of the bloggers from Asmodee UK bloggers board game
club. Having discovered the books last summer, he couldn’t wait to get started
on this game during the half term week and it kept him blissfully quiet in the
evenings!
Starting at chapter one you read the text on the card and
start the game. A goal card tells you what you need to complete during the
chapter and each story card give you an extra part of the story and choice to
make….
Sometimes the cards give you a challenge, there are 5 different
ones but you roll the dice and if the number matches or exceeds the danger
meter you succeed. There are five chapters to work on during the game and
taking risks can offer higher rewards.
Aimed at 10 years + its playable from one person up to many.
Eldest played this on his own a couple of times – perfecting his skills I think
for playing with his friends. It takes a while to play – there are a variety of
chapters and the first took just under an hour to complete. I suspect the whole
game would take a week to complete if playing solo. He replayed chapter one
towards the end of the week with one of his friends and said it was great fun
replaying it with his friends and added extra to the game.
If you read the CYOA games when you were younger, you’ll love
the nostalgia of the make up and the art work matching the books! The writing
is surprisingly engaging for the reader and you do really start to get into
pretty quick.
I suspect that having played this a couple of time you might
want to swap it for another set but so far it hasn’t lost its shine and its
encouraged my son to also hunt out some more of the books! All in all a great
game to have round the house!
My person favourite for this game was that he was putting
aside electronics out of choice with out being asked to play!
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