What Next: Cooperative Adventure Board Game | Which Path
What Next: Cooperative Adventure Board Game | Which Path Will You Pick?
Pick Your Path Adventure Game WHAT NEXT?
- ADVENTURE AWAITS: An action adventure board game with over 60 mini games that you’ll need to master.
- PICK YOUR PATH TOGETHER: You’re being chased through the jungle by a giant koala. Will you vote to climb up a tree and hide or to escape through the swamp?
- PERIL AROUND EVERY CORNER: If you take a wrong turn or fail a challenge, add a peril piece to the ‘Tower of Peril’. If it topples, it’s game over!
- TRY IT SOLO: All the adventures and challenges can be completed with 1-4 players aged 10+.
There’s Peril Around Every Corner…
HOW TO PLAY WHAT NEXT?
What Next? is a cooperative action adventure board game. It’s crammed with over 60 challenges and mini games to master
Choose your adventure
ADVENTURE AWAITS
First, choose one out of the 3 adventures: “Drums of Koala Cave”, “The Sky Scraper Caper” or “Blinky’s Great Escape”. Inside of each adventure there are location cards, event cards and item cards. To start the game pick up one location card and read it out to the rest of the players, these cards will guide you trough your adventure. Next, everyone has to vote to decide which direction to go in.
60 unique mini games
ACTION-PACKED CHALLENGES
Every time you take a location card you must rotate the time dial one space clockwise. If at any point you find the event icon on one of the location cards, then it means is time for the event cards. The event cards feature physical challenge, such as shape build, puck push, item search and 60 unique mini games.
Don’t let your tower fall
BEWARE, THE TOWER OF PERIL
If at any point in the game you see the peril icon, this means that you must add one piece to your tower of peril. Be careful, it’s not as simple as it sounds, if your tower falls then it’s game over and you’ll have to start again. Try to finish the adventure without knocking your tower of peril.
THE SKYSCRAPER CAPERYou’re a billionaire crime-figther with a problem—your elderly housekeeper won’t stop trying to kill you. If you want to get to bed in one piece, you’ll have to do everything you can to stop her.
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What Next
Don’t Get Got
Muffin Time
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| Dimensions: | 26 x 24 x 7 cm; 1.61 Kilograms |
| Model: | WHATN01 |
| Material: | Cardstock |
| Colour: | Multicolor |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Assembly: | No |
| Dimensions: | 26 x 24 x 7 cm; 1.61 Kilograms |
| Material: | Cardstock |
Board games are big in our house. We play either 2 player (me and my wife) or with 3 young children, 3 players with the father in law, or occasionally we throw a games night with a few friends.
This game is one of those games that everybody can enjoy, be they serious strategists or not into games at all. It gets people laughing, talking and involved, and is light and fast enough that it doesnt dominate the evening.
It has dextrous elements (much to my dismay as I am infamously bad at Jenga and the like!) like stacking a tower or flicking a puck to try and land it in a certain place, but it doesnt take itself too seriously and this is great for interactivity, kids, and creating laughter.
It has storytelling elements as well, like a choose your own adventure novel, but is nowhere near as deep. It wont put off people who might see that as too nerdy, and will instead get everyone around the room talking and weighing in their opinions.
The component quality is surprisingly good here, with a nice velvet bag, delightful magnetic flap box, and soft rubber-feel ‘peril’ pieces, makes the game feel really premium for the steal of the price I got it for.
Its not the BEST game in the world, and doesnt have incredible replayability once youve played through it a few times. Also, you would struggle to play it while traveling on a train for example, because of the dexterity elements, but it is in a medium sized box so is ok for traveling and playing in a hotel or bnb etc.
Overall, a must buy if you like party games and want to entertain a small group of people. It would be great for families around xmas time.
This is essentially 3 games in one, 3 stories to play through. It took us the majority of a day to complete the first one, as due to errors in our progression through the story we had to start again several times. This is worth doing! You get more play value from the game and in life we often do have to start again so it’s good, I’m really glad we planned a relaxed day at home to complete it however. We haven’t done the next two games. It’s essentially a card game using the same accessories pack, very clever, and at the 15 I paid I am delighted with the value of this game, I may even buy more to gift to other children as the price is so good. The box is really good quality with a magnetic closure, it feels good quality. I’m not sure how it will be to “replay” in the future, but as a mother and son activity it is a winner. Great for single parent families where you can sometimes struggle to find games which are fun with only 2 players. I hope that more versions of this game come out. I have not tried playing it with a group of children though after we have completed it together we may wait a while then play with a group of children to see how that works; you have to vote on how to proceed with decisions based on majority or person holding the card so will have to see how that goes. It’s a good game to encourage reading practice as each player reads their card turn by turn. Can be frustrating when their is a loss (which may seem unfair sometimes) but it’s great for children to develop cooperation skills and emotional regulation if this is a goal too. Definitely worth sticking to the rules and accepting defeat when it is called for or this skill development will be missed. Allow plenty of time so you are not rushed and can really enjoy it, we had little breaks through the day. Really felt like quality time.
The game was easy to set up and fun to play.
Although it only has 3 adventures included I found the replay value was very good.
The challenges included vary in difficulty. The hardest being keeping the tower from falling.
The best description for this game is chaotic storytelling.
I play a lot of party games and this one is one of my favorite recent pickups.
It was a lot of fun, challenging at times, and was really enjoyable.
We did find that if you played with exactly 4 people the challenges kept falling on the same person but we just randomized the dial spins to avoid that.
Would play again and recommend to those who enjoy a bit of a board game/party game combo.
This game is such a well- made and well-thought board game, with a lot of different elements to keep it interesting. I like that the players play as a team and not against each other. I definitely recommend it!
The cards and everything inside the box is of great quality and is packed in paper envelopes rather than plastic. Beautiful game, with three fun adventures to play through with friends or solo. Honestly a gorgeous boardgame.
This game is great for a weekend away.
Comes with 3 stories, each replayable as you can take different routes. Some of the scenarios/pictures are funny which gets a laugh.
The challenges are simple, yet infuriating when you fail them, but this keeps things interesting.
I assume the challenges and stories will get a little too repetitive after a while, but we have enjoyed them so far.
The cards, pieces for the mini games and even the box are all very sturdy and reassuringly chunky – seriously the box weighs a ton – and although there are only three scenarios there are multiple paths through each, and just changing the turn order ensures that everyone gets a new experience with new mini-games that they haven’t tried before. The time dial for each scenario also adds more variation as each card has a “day” and “night” version. The line drawing artwork sells the scenarios nicely.
If I’d taken Scrabble or Monopoly or any of the other usual suspects round, it might have kept a few of us entertained while my parents drifted off, my dad would have ended up having a nap, my nephew would have gone on his phone and me and my mum would have ended up talking politics for hours on end – but instead all seven of us stayed around the table fully engaged from landing on the island to successfully escaping from…well, that would be telling…
For more adventurous gamers, there is also the possibility of making your own scenarios. What Next? is a game system as much as a game in and of itself, and you could soon knock together new scenarios making use of the existing mini games or adding ones of your own. People have been doing this with the vastly more complicated DnD ruleset for decades.
Should you buy this? Yep.
Good family game. Easy to get. Easy to play. Definitely worth the money. Only three scenarios lots of different possibilities, but could do with a couple more stories or expansion packs
Although it’s aimed at 10+ (which is probably accurate) because it’s co-operative we managed to play it with a younger child too (5 years) with a little help.
Game does take a little concentration to set up and learn the first time. The supportive videos really help and after 1 play through was really simple to get going the next time.
Heartily recommend, especially if competitive games sometimes get too intense and you’re looking for something genuinely fun you can play together!
We have done two of the three adventures and loved each one – we very much hope the publisher will bring out new expansion decks so we can continue playing after the third one! The quality of the components is top notch, the storytelling and game mechanics work really well and I really appreciate the avoidance of single-use plastic packaging throughout the game. It’s a thumbs up from us!
This review is based on 2 people playing the game. It might be better with more players and we are looking forward to trying that out.
We really enjoyed playing the game. It was very interactive, with great quality components. The artwork is absolutely incredible and often brings levity to scary parts of the story. We also really enjoyed the animated intros, which really helped get us into the story. There was leeway to adapt it, and it was exciting to replay and take different paths and try and survive the adventure. It took us several attempts to be able to get all the way through a story. Because it did take us several attempts, the beginning of the stories did tend to get a bit repetitive. The only thing that we think could be improved is the time dial- it should be an odd number (best would be 5) rather than 4. As 2 people, the same person would get the ‘night’ time every time, which seemed a bit unfair. But generally, we enjoyed playing the game.
We are looking forward to the next edition to see what adaptations and new stories get included.
Really enjoyed playing this. Will be bring it to the table at Xmas! Very creative game and lots of variety to keep things interesting
The first thing that stands out is how thoughtfully made this game is. The quality of the box, mini games (yes, there are mini games!) and pieces really shows. It seems to be made with genuine love and care.
After reading some instructions and being slightly overwhelmed with various systems and mechanics I was very pleasantly surprised that it’s really quite straightforward when you actually start playing. The game has a simple flow to it and you can jump in fairly quickly and get going, referring to the rules as and when things crop up.
I used to absolutely love choose your own adventure books when I was younger and this is a great way to introduce that to a younger audience (but is still a great time for adults). It’s a cooperative game, so no family competitive drama to be had which is a plus too!
The goal is to work together through a story, making choices as you go and playing various mini games and challenges as things unfold in the story. Some of the games are really creative and entertaining and there are some genuinely tense moments when it’s all on you to avoid failing a challenge (and the consequences that come with that!).
When things go wrong (and they will!) you have to add a “peril piece” to your collection. These essentially need to stack up on top of each other. They are odd shapes so some careful consideration and placement is necessary to avoid failure. If this tower collapses, its game over for everyone!
We had a great time with our first adventure and we’re looking forward to playing some more with our friends and family soon. Perfect for a Christmas get together!
My only issue with the game is that the table you play on is very important. It needs to be big enough for some of the mini games to really work, but also sturdy so you don’t knock the peril pieces over when you get up to go to the loo! It won’t work on the floor or on a small coffee table for example but if you’ve got the place for it I can’t recommend the game enough.