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What is Above and Below

Your last village was ransacked by barbarians. You barely had time to pick up the baby and your favorite fishing pole before they started the burning and pillaging. You wandered over a cruel desert, braved frozen peaks, and even paddled a log across a rough sea, kicking at the sharks whenever they got too close, the baby strapped tightly to your back.

Then you found it! The perfect place to make your new home. But as soon as you had the first hut built, you discovered a vast network of caverns underground, brimming with shiny treasures, rare resources, and untold adventure. How could you limit your new village to the surface? You immediately start organizing expeditions and building houses underground as well as on the surface.

With any luck, you'll build a village even stronger than your last-- strong enough, even, to turn away the barbarians the next time they come knocking.

Above and Below is a mashup of town-building and storytelling where you and up to three friends compete to build the best village above and below ground. In the game, you send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the cave, harvesting resources, and constructing houses. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how to best use them. You have your own personal village board, and you slide the villagers on this board to various areas to indicate that they've been given jobs to do. Will you send Hanna along on the expedition to the cave? Or should she instead spend her time teaching important skills to one of the young villagers?

Specs

Game details

Players: 2–4
Age: +13
Duration: 90 min
Difficulty: Medium
Type: Board game
Year: 2015
Mechanics: Action Points · Dice Rolling · Narrative Choice / Paragraph
Categories: Adventure · City Building · Economic
Designer: Ryan Laukat
Publisher: Devir · Red Raven Games · Arclight Games · Bard Centrum Gier

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Meeplay_83225/10

Too much text dependent, if I want a game beautiful because the thematic, I definitely prefer to try something Ameritrash

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davidarribas6/10

Arriba y Abajo es un euro narrativo, gestionamos el desarrollo de un poblado, vamos reclutando habitantes que nos ayudarán con sus habilidades y correrán aventuras para obtener los recursos que permitirán adquirir edificios. El juego es de colocación de trabajadores, y se gana obteniendo puntos de victoria en una ensalada de puntos, lo diferencial en este juego es que al explorar para obtener recursos se utiliza un libro muy similar a los elije tu propia aventura donde vamos tomando decisiones a partir del texto que nos leen. Esto lo hace muy accesible, llamativo y familiar, las única pega e

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ElFrikiJugon8.5/10