Cutthroat Caverns
2007
BGG Geek Rating
3.1
BGG Average Rating
3.2
community average
BGG Ranking
#2364
all board games
Players
3-6
Weight
2.1
Playtime
90 min
Age
12+
⚙️ Game Mechanics
How this game works - core systems and player actions
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📖 About This Game
"Without teamwork, you will never survive. Without betrayal, you’ll never win."
Cutthroat Caverns is played over 9 rounds, each with a random encounter. Essentially a game of 'kill stealing'. Each round, any monster encountered will have a prestige value of 1 through 6. The player that successfully jockeys for position and lands the killing blow gets the prestige value for the encounter. Some encounters will not have a specific monster, such as a trap room for the heroes to pass through (and in this case, earning no prestige). The surviving player with the most prestige after the 9 encounters is the winner. If the players do not survive all 9 encounters, no one wins the game.
A unique combination of cooperative game play and opportunistic backstabbing.
