Sleeping Gods: Primeval Peril Review: River of Screams

[@blackbellows]

Mike is a gem to have on the Dice Tower

[@joseg.6187]

I love having Mike back. He was awesome here.. great review by everyone.

[@paltarecords1898]

He is back temporarily?

[@DimeNDice4]

Wendy is my favorite reviewer, hands down. Our tastes are nowhere near alike but she is my gauge for whether a game has longevity or fun for the moment. She notices details that many overlook and has a unique perspective that is very different from my own. Her insights are worth their weight in gold. Please do as many reviews as you can.

[@searose6192]

So happy to see Mike! We miss you all the time 😢

[@arielzao150]

what happened?

[@draheim90]

Really appreciate the review. To speak to what Mike said I had been curious about Sleeping Gods and considered getting it but indeed it was too large in scale for me to have confidence I had the tablespace, mental energy, and time to finish a campaign of it by myself. I had no idea this game existed but now that I do it looks perfect for what I’m looking for and I may even be able to convince my wife to play it with me as well! And like y’all said, getting Jaws of the Lion vibes here and Jaws was a lot more suitable to me than the physical versions of Gloomhaven/Frosthaven for similar reasons this one feels better for me than Sleeping Gods.

[@lisahasegawa2674]

Yes - so nice to see Mike’s face with the other faces.

[@br0adsw0rd65]

I wanted to love sleeping gods, but darn the combat is so brutal. Even on "easy" we always spend all ressources to barely survive an average encounter.

[@peterkarlsson1825]

Ryan Laukat is a never sleeping god.

[@searose6192]

I have sleeping gods and the tides of time expansion (they were a gift) and I haven’t even opened them because I am so intimidated to play alone. This one looks so much more approachable.

[@robinsmith6847]

Does this mean sleeping gods distant skies review is coming soon? 🤗🤗🤗

[@daniellebackus819]

The first sleeping gods was also very easy to play solo (to me). Just took up a lot of space and time, but it’s one of the best games I have ever played regardless of player count. The characters aren’t really independently managed, so it’s not any harder to play them all… in fact I think it’s easier to play them all than split them up.

[@willtuck]

"It's a playable product." Put that on the box.

[@johannesblank1552]

So, Jaws of the Sleeping Gods?

[@juddjensen7578]

Great review. Excited to play through this one with my kids.

[@Trae_Lenox]

I wonder if the 2 hr mark is what Ryan recommends you play in 1 sitting.

[@ethancollins4593]

I see the Dice Tower is expanding to include Major Internet Celebrities

[@JonoNZBoardGamer]

I wonder if the more direct paths that the river gives helps to weave a more cohesive story than the original? Our one and only playthrough (of original) was a bit all over the place with the story and then got suddenly wrapped up when we hit the end... Was a little odd, but I'm still keen to try find another time to play through the game in the space of a week

[@DTWendy]

We did find key words and then activate them a few pages apart, so there was some continuity of story

[@dio1122able]

Man, why does Wendy hate Sleeping Gods?!

[@jackiejlw5493]

😂😂😂

[@DTWendy]

Cuz I'm the worst 😢😂

[@searose6192]

I think this would be fun to play it with my kids..each of us taking one character.

[@nshaw1299]

I will never not call this 'Perilous Peril'

[@nightbirdgames]

Does anyone know when the game will be released to retail?

[@nerdyjawsh]

I loved the idea of sleeping gods but definitely didn't enjoy the actual game. Way too much set up and the combat was very convoluted. I also am realizing after playing sleeping gods and recently 7th continent, I want a little more direction with my exploration games. This looks to fix all my issues. I'm very excited 😊

[@Animal_board_gamer]

It’s probably 2 hours per 2 characters (not including the captain)

[@tmon6219]

Wendy getting Zee's bad habit. Short is good long is bad!!

[@DTWendy]

I'm happy to play a 3-4 hr game, but 8 is a bit mucb

[@daniellebackus819]

@@DTWendy8 hours for this one? No way. My husband and I played this for about 2.5 hours and we already have 15 moonflowers. I think we’ll be done in another hour, maybe 2 tops.

[@dvoid665]

This is not the stand-alone sequel to Sleeping Gods because that one is called Distant Skies. This is a remake of the smaller predecessor to the original Sleeping Gods. I feel like they didn't make that clear at all.

[@acemind1]

Why would the playtime on the box represent the full campaign? It's the time for a session of it

[@DTChrisYi]

It's a tough thing to define what a "session" is in Sleeping Gods games. The campaign is a whole story through, and there's no defined end-points for what a session is. So, it saying 2 hours on the box is kind of a made up number. You could play this one in 4 one-hour "sessions" or just go through it in one evening.

[@acemind1]

@DTChrisYi I agree that it's mostly made up in that you can stop whenever you want, but Red Raven definitely needs to give some indication as to what a normal session might be expected. But I don't know of any campaign game that has the amount of time it takes to finish a campaign in the same area that most games have their average session time.

[@svachalek]

I also suspect this is a made up number for how long you might play a session. But if it’s like the original SG there’s really no natural breaking points for that the way there is in a more scenario based game like Jaws of the Lion. So you just have to go with what’s a reasonable amount of time to get some things done and justify the setup.

[@TattooedEngineer]

Playing time you see on boxes is the time of one session, not the whole campaign.

[@thedicetower]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

[@RubyRevolution2015]

Love Near and Far but found Sleeping Gods boring and frustrating. Always ready to play in Ryan Laukat's worlds but am wary about whether I will love this or not.

[@skankinupastorm]

When did mike come back?

[@tmon6219]

Visiting only!