Innmouth Escape - Solo

Innsmouth Escape is a hidden movement game where one player moves around the board trying to pick up enough equipment to fend off the attacking Deep Ones and Shoggoths long enough to rescue fellow humans and then escape the town. The other (up to) four players meanwhile are trying to flood the board and slowly wear him down, because while they are weak, they have infinite numbers on their side: they go down easy, but they just keep on coming. It's loosely based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, but knowing even that much isn't necessary, let alone any details.

The game doesn't ship with solo play rules, but with them being all the rage, the designer came up with some, which i've tweaked and cleaned up a bit. In the solo version, the game controls the Deep Ones and Shoggoths using simple rules that nonetheless seem surprisingly prescient at times. Instead of making this post a mile long — and because i'm not positive that there aren't additional tweaks waiting in the wings — i'll just link to the thread and word file hosted over at BGG.

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