The Spill Board Game Review
5The Spill is a cooperative crisis management game for 1 to 4 players. An oil rig has had a major accident and is spilling into the ocean unchecked. The marine life are in danger, and it's up to you to rescue the animals and stem the flow of oil.
***Gideon's Bias***
Review Copy Used: Yes
Number of Plays: 7+
Player Counts Played: 1 & 2
Fan of Genre: No
Fan Weight:
Gaming Groups' Thoughts: No Interest
***Game Information***
Publisher: Smirk & Dagger/Smirk & Laughter
Designer: Andy Kim
Player Count: 1-4
Genre: Cooperative Crisis Management
Weight: Gateway/Light
Price: $49.99
***Pros***
The Dice Tower is fun to use
The colorful board and animals contrast nicely with the oil dice
8 playable characters
Nice randomized solo puzzle to solve
The risk versus reward mechanism for extra action points is nifty
Multiple ways to tune the difficulty
***Con***
The tower and perimeter have to be disassembled to be put away
Multiplayer feels unnecessary at best and detrimental at worst and is prone to quarterbacking
If the game wanted to express how bad an oil spill is, it did so poorly with sanitized messaging
The Spill is very swingy with some games being far harder than others regardless of difficulty
***Time Stamps***
00:00 Overview
01:12 Presentation
02:37 Disaster mitigation
04:30 Weathering It out
06:23 Sticky Execution
08:05 Moral Messaging
08:38 Trigger Warning Start
09:15 Trigger Warning End
10:04 Player Count
12:01 Verdict
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