
- BGG rank
- BGG #26,932
- BGG rating
- 5.4
Pirates: The Great Chase
- 1 player
- Complexity 1.5/5
- 2012

2013
Rules assistance for Pirates: The City of Skulls
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Pirates: The City of Skulls is a board game released in 2013 for 1 player. It was designed by Shuky and its main mechanics are Narrative Choice / Paragraph.
You have successfully completed your first mission and now know where your fugitive prisoner is hiding. But capturing it looks much harder! You will have to search a fortified city full of traps, interrogate locals who are not very loquacious and particularly inhospitable, look for clues to solve the mysteries that hover over the fugitive ... Riddles, quests and challenges will be the watchwords of your second Pirates adventure. ! Your adventure will depend on your choices, because the hero is you! Pirates 2 is a comic combined with a game, one title in a series subtitled "The comic in which you are the hero". You embody a character in a immersive story in which your choices guide your progress. You have a character sheet akin to those used in role-playing games that tracks your possessions, your special abilities, your coins, and your victory points. In general, gameplay consists in following the comic's panels — which contain clues, riddles and traps — and making choices about where to go and what to do, while using your visual perception to collect clues and be smart enough to resolve the riddles. As in any game, you can lose — sometimes really badly! —description from the publisher (translated) Vous avez réussi votre première mission et savez maintenant où se cache votre prisonnier en fuite. Mais le capturer s’annonce autrement plus difficile ! Vous devrez fouiller une ville fortifiée truffée de pièges, interroger des habitants peu loquaces et particulièrement inhospitaliers, chercher des indices pour résoudre les mystères qui planent au-dessus du fugitif… Enigmes, quêtes et défis seront les maîtres-mot de votre seconde aventure de Pirates ! Votre aventure dépendra de vos choix, car le héros, c’est vous ! —description from the publisher
Pirates: The City of Skulls supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Pirates: The City of Skulls has a complexity rating of 3.0 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-weight game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Pirates: The City of Skulls belongs to these categories: Comic Book / Strip, Deduction, and Adventure. Its main mechanics are Narrative Choice / Paragraph. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Pirates: The City of Skulls are: Shuky. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Pirates: The City of Skulls as a base game. It can be played on its own with the components in the box and does not require any other title. Expansions, if any exist, add new content or rules on top of it and are listed separately in the catalogue with a link back to this base game.