The Lost Expedition: A Game of Survival in the Amazon

Great quality components: cards are tarot sized with brilliant artwork. The box is small and neat. The game itself is an excellent short story-driven game. It is heavily luck based, but is easy to set up, play and pack away.

A lovely little board/card game, which works with 1-4 players.It can be tough to win and even when you play it often a wrong set of cards can lose you the game.Even being tough doesn’t put you off and quite often just one more go comes up.The cards are strong and beautifully drawn, the game is so easy to play and could probably be played with younger children with an adult setting the game up.You have to plan and balance your supplies and health to win the game and allows for some lateral thinking and making tough choices .Would recommend it for anyone but especially those people like me who enjoy co-op experiences .Hope this helps

A great game that challenges you to the extreme.Historically it makes for an interesting premise particularly considering the level of research that has gone into the inclusion of various South American tribes.Me and my wife are hardened strategy board game players and have to admit.... this game is NOT EASY! Give it a go, you might do better than us 😉

Based on the real life expedition of Major Percival Fawcett to find the Lost City of Z, or El Dorado, the Lost Expedition is a card game that can be played solo, cooperatively or competitively from one to five players.The game sees you stocking up on supplys such as ammo and food before making your way through the jungle to reach the end (or try and reach the end) to claim your reward.The game starts with you laying cards out that will give you a series of challenges to complete, these take turns in a morning section and then they change slightly as it becomes evening and you try to struggle through hoping to find some respite.The order in which you lay out your cards is very important, this could mean the difference between you smartly sneaking through some absolutely horrendous moments present to you and the possibility of rewards such as health, ammo and food.Make no mistake, this game is quite difficult especially when playing solo but I suppose a trudge through a creature infested jungle, with diseases and traps wouldn't be a stroll through the park albeit a park that's out to get you at every turn.The moments when you feel a sense of absolute dread because you're out of supplies and you're looking at possibly (almost likely) losing one (or more) of your explorers and then seeing a way to get past by playing the cards correctly keeps you on edge and yet you can finally breathe for a moment when you succeed.The art and stories that it tells each time through how you play your cards always plays out differently and gives you the feeling of a new adventure each time and adds to sense of being on a journey.If you're easily frustrated then this game may not be for you, I've beaten this game only a handful of times and died a lot more but i feel making this game easy would take away from the feeling it gives you and you possibly wouldn't care for it. If you want that sense of adventure and want to bring your friends along with you then I recommend it.

I seen this recommended online and wanted to get a solo game to play given the circumstances with lockdown. In my first play through I managed with beginners luck to make it to the end with one adventurer and one health left, I thought that the game might not be as hard as advertised. But any other play through since has resulted in the grim deaths of my party members far away from the lost city.Game is easy to learn with helpful guides for the symbols used on the cards, great replay ability and so is good value for money. Can pick up and play a few runs and pack away again very easily

This is a great game, but incredibly difficult to win - so hard it gets compulsive.Quite simply you select your team, take some health, supplies and ammunition and try to make your way through the forest to The Lost City. Along the way a large deck of cards helps and (usually) hinders you, giving you resources and health (and rare ammunition) but more often taking them away. You have a team of three and if you get anywhere near your goal, you will have sacrificed two of them.However adept you are at manipulating the dealt cards, the game always seems to come out on top.Illustrations, everything is very good quality, each card is individual and based on what I call the 'Tintin' style colour drawings.The game is an excellent solo game as well.Worth every penny and one game you don't just roll over.

Very good quality but a little boring as no real game play variety, we enjoyed it more as a group who were interested in the subject matter looking up th e tribes etc

I only played it solo so far, and it works very well. I put some thematic music on while I play and I get completely immersed in the expedition. The artwork is beautiful.It is hard to win (I think I won around one third of my games), but for the first few games, I was more about looking at the cards and trying things out than actually trying to win.It can also be played cooperatively with several other players, or competitevly with two teams (trying to reach El Dorado first). I haven't tried those out yet. I think the cooperative game would be a bit less engaging than solo play (but great if you have young children to play with!), but competitive game might be good to spend some time.Lastly, the box is really sturdy and about the size of a thick book.