Gaming Session - sharks and level 7

From the simple to complex, October games rock already. One of the most simplest games we played is Get Bit! an appropriately named game about avoiding a shark. You have a guy with removable limbs, and you place them on the table in a lione and play one of your cards numbered 1-7. If you play the same number as someone else, your position in the line remains the same, all other jump to the front in ascending order of card number. The one in the back of the line then loses a limb to the shark, but jumps to the front. Play another card, move players, someone loses a limb. As I am scared of sharks this simple game can be instense for me. Last survivor wins. It has some cool little strategy, but is easy to play. I dig it.

That doesn't compare to the fear involved in Level 7, a new cooperative game where 1-4 player try to escape a facility doing otherworldly experiments. Cooperative, until the place goes on lockdown and then it is every man to himself. In the meantime you are trying to control your adrenaline and fear level, as clone aliens in the facilty smell fear and are after you. Oh yeah, and then there are military guards intent on keeping you in there. The game involves 7 scenarios you can play as you try to escape, each with varying difficulty and the facility layout with tiles is different every time so there is great replayability. Challenges on every turn can be overcome with strength or intelligence, and every level has its own goal to meet before you can escape. You can also travel through the facility vents, but beware, so can the alien clones!

Our first game was rough as an introduction as we were just getting to know the rules, and went  really slow. We found out some rules we weren't playing right and decided to play the second scenario with three of us. It was pretty tense and we needed some fortunate rolls to escape a few times, but in the end we lost one player and only two escaped. Even then we weren't playing all the rules right and it was still cool. I can't wait to play it again, as I think we have it down now and there are more scenarios to go, but it can be intense.

My character card in Level 7, never got to use the scalpel

That's my guy on the right, need to get by two guards to escape.