Game designer, Richard Breese, was inspired by David Attenborough's 'Blue Planet' documentary series to create a game that simulated life on a coral reef.
Just imagine, underwater, down in the ocean, coral reefs are full of life, with plenty of minute, colourful marine animals slipping away in all directions. A paradise? Definitely not! You will experience for yourself that this is a perpetual battleground where only the strongest survive. Coral reef life is in fact much more complex than it seems.
Will you be ready to fight for survival?
In Reef Encounter Players compete to grow the largest and strongest corals on the reef, paying attention to the hierarchy of strengths among the different coral families. Here dominants species gain space at the cost of weak ones. Players must defend their corals by placing Shrimps on top to protect them and at the same time catch the right moment to devour everything else with their Parrot Fish. Beware, however, as the final score will be composed not only by the amount of eaten coral, but also by the actual coral's hierarchy, which can be altered by the wise use of Alga cylinders.
Reef Encounter is a clever and structured Strategy Game which will not fail to stimulate the enthusiasm of even the most expert gamer: this is because of the virtually non-existent "chance" component and because of the possibility to carefully plan very different tactics to reach the victory.
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