Days earlier than the ultimate episode of Survivor’s forty seventh season, gaming firm Exploding Kittens introduced Survivor The Tribe Has Spoken, a brand new card-based celebration sport designed in collaboration with the present’s Emmy Award-winning host and producer Jeff Probst. Designed for each superfans and the uninitiated alike, the Survivor card sport makes an attempt to reflect the social technique the genre-defining actuality present has change into well-known for.
This isn’t the primary licensed sport by the Exploding Kittens staff — having launched Exploding Minions in 2021 — however co-founder and CEO Elan Lee’s pleasure for this partnership appears to be greater than only a savvy enterprise collaboration. “I’ve watched each episode of Survivor for the reason that first season — 24 years in the past. It has had a large affect alone sport designs and skill to craft wonderful experiences for our gamers,” stated Lee within the sport’s press launch. “I’ve at all times needed to deliver the Survivor expertise to at-home audiences, however condensing a multi-week sport to lower than half-hour has been difficult. After two years of working intently with Jeff Probst, we’ve lastly achieved it… with all of the enjoyable, technique, alliances, and betrayal packed into a fantastic field.”
The sport incorporates the present’s practically 25 12 months historical past into card-based play, together with participant playing cards that includes a number of the present’s most (and least) beloved contestants. All through the sport, gamers will type alliances and blindside energy gamers all in an try and be the ultimate two survivors standing, the place they will make their case about why they performed the sport higher than their opponent and deserve the title of Sole Survivor and 1,000,000 dolla — er, bragging rights.
“Once we got down to make a card sport model of Survivor — we would have liked it to be an entertaining expertise for each legacy followers and individuals who merely love enjoying video games,” stated Jeff Probst, Host and Government Producer of Survivor. “I knew the Exploding Kittens staff was the proper companion to type an alliance with to deliver the sport to life, and we hope folks take pleasure in enjoying it as a lot as we loved designing it.”
The gameplay makes use of iconic Survivor mechanics like benefits, hidden immunity idols, and vote-based tribal councils — which makes use of the video games’ field as a stand-in for the present’s well-known urn the place Probst himself “tallies the votes.” Examples of the playing cards used all through play embrace Reward Challenges, which require you to scheme and strategize with different gamers; “The Spy Shack,” which helps you to peek at any participant’s hand and steal a card; and the counter-card “Sorry for You,” which blocks opponents from stealing your playing cards. Bonus playing cards additionally enable gamers to steal and manipulate votes and even declare themselves Tribal Council Chief.
Finest fitted to gamers ages eight and up, the sport accommodates three to 6 gamers and takes round 30-60 minutes to play. Survivor The Tribe Has Spoken is at present obtainable to preorder for $19.99 at Amazon, Goal, and Walmart.