In CoraQuest you take control of four adventurers exploring a dungeon, avoiding traps, finding treasure, fighting monsters,and sometimes rescuing gnomes called Kevin.
Being a proactive fellow, I’ve been on the hunt for a dungeon crawler I can eventually play with my daughter. She’s only two at the moment, and I don’t fancy waiting another ten years, so I’d been Googling “dungeon crawlers for kids”. I’ll admit it was a somewhat half-hearted search, but it didn’t throw up anything that caught my attention.
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Anyway, it turns out that all I needed to do was attend this year’s Tabletop Scotland to find what I was after. I hadn’t been through the doors two minutes when I spotted a lovely wee game called CoraQuest. I had a chat with the nice chap from Bright Eye Games, got shown the basics, and did the old “take my money” routine.
When I got a look in the box that evening, I learned more about the game’s origins, and it turns out there’s a heartwarming tale of a Dad (Dan) and daughter (Cora) creating it as a lockdown-era project in 2020.
Anyway, the next natural step in this sequence of events was, of course, to have a chat about it on the podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear from CoraQuest co-creator Dan about the game’s background, how it plays, and the media frenzy that followed its release.
CoraQuest is a cooperative game with everything you need to start playing right out of the box. But it also lends itself to adaptation and homebrewing. There’s a booklet inside that helps you create your own characters, weapons, and items. The game is played with brilliantly drawn cardboard “standees”, but these can easily be substituted by miniatures from your collection. My old Monster in My Pocket horde are just screaming to be let loose on these dungeon tiles…
Links
- CoraQuest on Amazon (affiliate link)
- CoraQuest official website
- Bright Eye Games
