Kevin C. Wong

Board Game - CoraQuest (2022) [+]

CoraQuest is a children's fantasy dungeon-delving board game with lots of colorful pieces.

There are a good number of characters and you take three or four of them into the dungeon (if fewer players you double-up characters). Each character has hit points, movement and a special ability and they can carry weapons and items (weapons show what die they roll to attack and their range as a graphic). It's a basic move+action or action+move system and in combat you roll their special combat dice to get hits (one thing to make it easier: if you miss then you turn the character card over into their angry state where they get more dice to attack with until they score at least one hit).

A scenario starts with a mission card. Then you venture into the dungeon and explore it. Dungeon tiles are chosen randomly and then you can orient so as to make sure it connects. Most tiles reveal a monster or three which you should attack as they'll go after characters are done with their turn. Killing monsters you can get treasure which can also be magic items.

I only played half a scenario with Csr and Cjr, though they've played it several times. Seems like a typical dungeon-delving board game with fun graphics and a bit simpler rules though still enough for parents to be entertained.