Forbidden Desert

Gear up for a thrilling adventure to recover a legendary flying machine buried deep in the ruins of an ancient desert city. You'll need to coordinate with your teammates and use every available resource if you hope to survive the scorching heat and relentless sandstorm. Find the flying machine and escape before you all become permanent artifacts of the forbidden desert! In Forbidden Desert, a thematic sequel to Forbidden Island, players take on the roles of brave adventurers who must throw caution to the wind and survive both blistering heat and blustering sand in order to recover a legendary flying machine buried under an ancient desert city. While featuring co-operative gameplay similar to Forbidden Island, Forbidden Desert is a fresh, new game based around an innovative set of mechanisms such as an ever-shifting board, individual resource management, and a unique method for locating the flying machine parts.

{
  "game_id": 136063,
  "name": "Forbidden Desert",
  "core_verb": "spend actions, dig tile",
  "decision_shape": "mixed:spatial+probabilistic",
  "reward_schedule": "delayed",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Challenge",
    "Fellowship",
    "Narrative"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Spend 4 actions to move, dig sand, share water, and triangulate flying-machine parts before the storm buries you.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Easy",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Already ported to iOS; the grid + co-op puzzle compresses perfectly to touch input.",
  "direct_digital_port": "Forbidden Desert (iPad, Button Mash Games)",
  "direct_digital_port_kind": "first_party",
  "closest_loop_translation": "none yet",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "coordinate_triangulation",
    "shifting_grid_storm",
    "shared_resource_pressure",
    "asymmetric_role_powers",
    "sand_accumulation_blocker"
  ],
  "confidence": 0.7
}