Plunder - Family Board Games - Board Games for Adults and Kids - Strategy Board Games - Fun Family Game Night - Ages 10 and Up - 2 to 6 Players

I’ve played a lot of different strategy games with friends and family, and Plunder stands out as one of the more fun and accessible ones. It mixes enough strategy to stay competitive but keeps the rules simple enough that you don’t have to spend forever teaching it.The pirate theme is really well done — building ships, raiding for treasure, upgrading your fleet — it all feels true to the vibe without being too complicated. The game scales well for different group sizes too — we had just as much fun with three players as we did with six.The quality of the board and pieces is solid, and the artwork looks sharp. If you’re looking for a new game that’s easy to learn but still feels fresh after multiple plays, Plunder is a great choice.

Plunder is a fun game with 2-person cooperative play or 1v1 or play with larger groups. The game is well made. The pieces are sturdy and good quality. We also like that the pieces all fit nicely back in the box. We bought this game for its ability to be played with only 2 players and love that there’s more than one way to play it as such. Plunder is easy to pick up. Theres strategy, risk, rewards, and potential deviousness! We also like that each game board is randomized, so game play will always be different.

I bought this as a very last minute thought for my husband for Christmas, admittedly not expecting much. We own and have played all the Catans. We have lots of other strategy/society building style games. I couldn’t imagine anything new, fun or reimagined among the game genre, but this game was very fun. It takes awhile to read the directions. And another hot minute (an hour or more) to learn the rules and play a whole game, but once you go through it a couple times it’s fairly quick and very enjoyable. We love the large, chunky, weighted ships. The added crew, masts and canons are cute and sturdy. The overall game play is challenging, but not difficult. We strongly recommend!

Absolutely love Plunder: A Pirates Life! Simple enough I even taught my 6yo how to play. Definitely taking this to the next family gathering. Probably getting one for each of my siblings at the holidays.The materials are mostly good, solid game pieces and accessories, game boards are made of a thick cardboard and nicely printed, resource cards are nicely designed. The treasure and storm relocation spinners are okay, mine kinda buzz from time to time which makes me question their reliability, but I'm going to replace them with a D12 (for 2 player games) & D18 dice and a custom D12 dice with alphabet letters A-L (Etsy, Yo).The gameplay, as I mentioned above, is simple enough a 6yo can understand it, mine just needs the treasure cards read for her. Absolutely love the bit about reading the treasure cards with your best pirate voice! One thing I think would be a fun addition would be to add a sea monster (I've already ordered four 3D printed miniature monsters 28mm scale) that moves at the beginning of every turn, and if it lands on or next to anyone, it immediately attacks and is considered a plus 2 or 3 like the more difficult islands. I like the resource system for upgrading your ships and earning plunder points, I think it's well designed. We do like a little longer game, and to give players a better chance at coming (back) up, so we tend to play to 15 points rather than 10. I also like that the rule book encourages home rules to improve the game. I think another cool addition might be to do challenge cards where you have to sink so many ships and/or capture so many islands in addition to the plunder points. Hmmmm, can we turn this into a drinking game? I foresee a pirate themed party with plenty of rum and booty prizes in our future. Where is my tricorn hat and eye patch?To the review about moving the treasure every turn being monotonous, I don't understand your point of view. How else would you gain additional treasure spots if you didn't relocate the markers after recovering them?Also, to that same reviewer, we tried giving additional resource cards for the harder to achieve islands and it just got stupid with one player capitalizing and dominating the game with practically unlimited resources. One resource per island is plenty.Anyways, run, don't walk (the plank), to get yourself a copy of this game! Happy Plundering!!