Apparently “defusal” is not a word..
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a game that attempts to emulate the famous bomb defusing scenes, in movies and TV. Once again, an ingenious idea for a game, and executed neatly as well
It's an exclusively co-op game, where one player has the Bomb Defusal Manual in front of them, and the other has the bomb itself. Player one must then guide player two through defusing the bomb, without mistakes, and before the bomb goes off
Each bomb is helpfully divided into modules that need to be individually defused, and the arcane rules of correctly doing this leads to a back-and-forth between the two players that quite accurately emulates the scenes it's based on. Take a look if you're interested
Playing this on the Deck made it much easier to rope in my (non game-playing) partner, and we ended up having a lot of fun. We've made it to the end of the "Challenging" section, which is enough for beaten purposes, but we may play more - and i might try get other friends/family into a round or two
I really like the idea of the game. But I was kept off initially by not having someone to play it with. Though, right now I am considering to buy and use it as teambuilding event at my work. Not entirely sold on the idea yet, though :P
Yeah, you need to have a second person to play, unfortunately. Although you can play over voice chat very easily, if that helps
Setting it up for a teambuilding event at work is also an idea i had, weirdly enough, but there’s no way my introverted ass is wrangling my coworkers together..