Run Run Run!

So our half-term basically fell apart. Toby(4) got some sort of gut infection which we are still trying to sort and Henry(1) suddenly got an ear infection that caused his eardrum to burst… I then got ill and was in bed with flu for 2 days and then found out I need to have my gallbladder removed in the next month or so… end of vent…

Needless to say the supposed “Half term marathon” kinda didn’t happen…

Anyway I have a few games that we did play and then never got posted before it all “kicked off” so now that things have calmed down a little (just in time for us all to go back to school) I will post them here.

“Run Run Run!” is a dungeon crawling tile laying game where you having already reached the treasure room have to escape an Egyptian pyramid evading angry mummies.

players cooperate to escape from the pyramid. First they move the mummies using the Mummy dice; then they must decide between 3 actions:

Explore (place a new card to extend the hallway and find the mechanisms to open the door), you then pick up more cards based on the exits on the card you put down

Fight (roll dice to fend off the mummies and block them from getting the relic)

or Cooperate (regroup all willing players at the same spot and act stronger together).

The players win if they exit the Pyramid while beating all the mummies (boss included that appears when the exit is found). The players lose if they run out of room cards or if a mummy reaches the Relics.

As you move you have to put torches in a new room (you start with 5) and if you can’t lay a torch you add a heart to the mummy counter which eventually spawns a new mummy. You can find treasure rooms to replenish torches.

Getting 3 matching rooms in a triangle triggers a mechanism to find the exit (getting 4 makes the exit appear) so doing this while avoiding other issues is your key focus.

It’s a fun dungeon crawler-type game that is a little bit different and fun for kids. I must be honest mine found it a little bit dull compared to something like Coraquest (which still has 10 days on Kickstarter if you wanna be first in line for the expansion and I promise I don’t work for Dan Hughes even though I keep promoting it ). It’s a bit basic.

The rulebook also is a little bit vague when it talks about things like movement and how you engage mummies in combat exactly which isn’t always ideal but I have a feeling it is a translation issue as the game was made in French.

Component quality is good and the mummy meeples are lovely. The tiles are quite thin and therefore get moved easily on the table but you get loads so I can understand why this is the way it is for both cost and box size, and weight.

It’s not an immediate yes but if you are looking for something with a dungeon crawler vibe and not quite ready for Coraquest or something a bit more “adult” then I could see this being good fun.

A solid B- (if that makes sense )