Stake Your Claim as the Greatest Pirate of All Time!

Build a pirate empire in the uncharted Plunder Islands of the Carribbi—er, Cairebbe—er, near the Gulf of Mexico! Seize your destiny of buccaneerrific awesomeness, and gather hordes of pirates, hoards of doubloons, greater infamy, and ever more treasure!

Dark Seas is a tile placement game. Each player builds their island, filling its ports with docks, hideouts, and more. Each player rolls a set of custom dice, then everyone uses the result to sail their ships around their islands, and build their reputation by recruiting pirates, gathering doubloons, and acquiring treasure and infamy. Whoever amasses the greatest reputation wins!

Spielinhalt:

- 102 hexagonal tiles:
- 4 central island hexes
- 24 port hexes
- 8 starting plunder tiles
- 66 standard plunder tiles
- 48 black wooden cubes
- 40 natural wooden cubes
- 4 wooden ship tokens
- 4 wooden captain tokens
- 4 round scoring markers
- 1 round natural-wood round marker
- 5 dice
- 1 turn track/score board
- 32 treasure tokens, four each of eight types
- 36 doubloon tokens (24x 1 value & 12x 3 value)
- Active player marker
- Rulebook

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?

A great cavern lies below the surface, ready for you to explore-- this is where the storytelling comes in. When you send a group of villagers to explore the depths, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react, and a lot will depend on which villagers you brought on the expedition, and who you're willing to sacrifice to succeed. The book of paragraphs is packed with encounters of amazing adventure, randomly chosen each time you visit the cavern.