Join the expedition in this gorgeous adventure game!
In the year 1934, the Columbia expedition crash landed on a mysterious island where legends say that several old and powerful civilizations have left many sumptuous treasures.
Each player is a brave explorer who joined the expedition with old maps that contain clues as to where some of these treasures can be found. Since the land is largely unknown and potentially dangerous, all players travel together, trying to avoid the mysteries that await them in this inhospitable land by hiring beasts of burden in the native villages.
Even though all the explorers travel in one group, each of them individually wants to be the one who brings back the richest treasures from Isla Dorada!
• 2 sea travel tokens
• 1 game board
• 1 leader token
• 1 expedition figure
• 1 Bigfoot figure
• 1 Leviathan figure
• 1 rulebook
• 16 wooden exploration markers
• 112 goal cards
• 112 adventure cards
• 6 reference sheets
In Isla Dorada, players join together to form an expedition, navigating through a mysterious and treasure-ridden island. However, since each player is competing to be the one explorer to find the most treasure, they each have their own treasure maps and their own secret motivations. To move the expedition, players bid cards that allow them to move the expedition through certain terrain. Whoever wins the bid gets to move the expedition and potentially find their hidden treasure.
“I consider Isla Dorada the best of my game designs so far, and I hope you will play it and share my opinion.”
“My first play with 4 people was a blast! We played with the co-operative bidding variant since everyone seemed to think it sounded cooler, and we had a great time.”
“Played this weekend with four others. We had actually a lot of fun. Stunning artwork, easy and well written rules. It got no high praises at first but everyone wanted to play it again.”
“It didn’t really matter who won or lost, not only because it was our learning game, but mostly because we all had a blast. Janneke already thinks it’s one of her favorite games and so do I. Joost has decided to get a copy of his own as well. We shared a lot of laughs and we all can’t wait to play another game of Isla Dorada.”
“I played this game last night with a group of 6 and I think this is probably one of my top games for 2010. The struggle with other players to move to different locations can be intense yet fun. Everyone has an objective for major points, while also scoring additional points for treasure cards. You start to see a pattern in everyone’s movement, which can be fun to decipher. The options of movement are a lot of fun, and the only way I could describe the adventure cards in the theme is that they’re an abstract way of resources and influence over the rest of the team to move to a location. An interesting couple cards I had was a treasure card worth 5 points, yet I had a curse card; both for the same location. Fortunately there’s an adventure card in the deck that lets me bypass the curse, however that’s if I’m lucky. There’s a major replay value in this game.”
Download the rules and card reference sheet in several languages.
English rules English reference sheet
French rules French reference sheet
German rules German reference sheet
Hungarian rules Hungarian reference sheet – On BoardGameGeek.com
Italian rules Italian reference sheet – On BoardGameGeek.com
Spanish reference sheet – On BoardGameGeek.com
Estonian reference sheet – On BoardGameGeek.com
Features
Category: Board Games
Nbr of players: 3 – 6
Gametime: 60 to 90 minutes
Age: 10+
Authors
Bruno Faidutti
Alan R. Moon
Andrea Angiolino
Piergiorgio Paglia
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