AquaSphere*
In AquaSphere, the depths of the ocean hold a treasure trove of discoveries waiting for your skilled team to uncover. Assemble your crew, including engineers, scientists, reprogrammable bots, and exploratory submarines, and embark on a thrilling underwater research expedition.
Gameplay Overview
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Two Vital Areas: The game board consists of two critical areas—the research station, featuring six sectors for your scientist's experiments, and the headquarters, where your engineer oversees bot preparations.
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Four Action-Packed Rounds: Over the course of four rounds, you'll take numerous turns, each with two key options:
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Engineer's Programming: Use your engineer to program a bot. Each round, you can select from three out of seven available actions, each offering unique advantages.
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Scientist's Exploration: Deploy your scientist and a bot to a sector to perform a specific action, advancing your research and gaining valuable knowledge points.
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Expanding Abilities: Your journey involves tasks like enhancing your lab, dispatching submarines, collecting crystals, and studying octopuses. These actions allow you to expand your team's capabilities and accumulate the knowledge points required for victory.
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Lab Size Dilemma: Balancing the size of your lab, your personal stock, poses an additional challenge. While increasing its size provides convenience, it consumes precious time.
Special Features
- Strategic Depth: AquaSphere is a thought-provoking game of strategy and tactics, offering various paths to victory. Success demands careful planning and seizing short-term opportunities.
Conclusion
AquaSphere immerses players in an enthralling underwater adventure, where every decision counts. Will you strategically allocate your team's actions, manage your limited lab space, and collect the necessary knowledge points to secure victory? Dive deep into the AquaSphere and embark on an exhilarating journey of exploration and discovery beneath the ocean's surface.
Nominated for 7 awards.
- 2 - 4 Players
- 100 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Hard to learn
We like AquaSphere so much that we recommend it in the following board game recommendation lists 2024
- Position 11 in All "Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪 2015" game award winners & nominees in comparison
- Position 90 in All games from the Top100 "Hunter & Cron Award 2020" list 🇩🇪
- Position 15 in The best games where you can pass your turn