Nature / Type: Board game
Who would love this: Kids/ Adults that enjoy wordplay / word-games
Wordplay goes wild in Landmarks, a clever and captivating game from Floodgate Games that turns language into survival tool. Big thanks to Let's Play Games for sending us a copy to explore!
Why I love ❤️ it:
(1) Game With Strategic One-Word Clues
In Landmarks, one player becomes the Guide, secretly studying a map filled with treasures, traps, curses, and exit. Using a trio of starting words—like Sandwich, Friend, and Eye—the Guide writes strategic one-word clues to lead the team across the terrain. Want to target just Eye? Try Glasses. Aiming for both Eye and Sandwich? Roll might do the trick (eye-roll, sandwich roll—get it?). The Explorers then debate, discuss, and place a tile where they think the clue leads. Each choice reveals what the team stumbled into, with the ultimate goal being to snag treasure and escape the island alive.
(2) Water Wells, Traps, & Curses
Landmarks is full of twists and turns. Run out of tiles, and it’s game over! Thankfully, water wells can restock your supply. Traps shrink your tile count permanently, while curses add tricky conditions—like needing to find an amulet before you can escape. But pick up a second curse in the same round, and you’re doomed. Add to that the chaotic minds of your teammates, who will absolutely interpret your clue in the weirdest way, and you’ve got a game full of surprising detours and laugh-out-loud moments.
(3) Competitive Team-vs.-Team Mode
Landmarks also packs a punch with a competitive team-vs.-team mode. In this variant—no traps, no water wells, no tile limits. Instead, two teams face off using the same map, racing to collect four treasures first. Each team has their own coloured loot to chase (plus a couple of shared treasures up for grabs), and clue-givers take turns crafting hints to steer their squad to victory—while dodging curses and accidentally helping the other side.
(4) Solid & Well-Designed Components
The game unfolds on a beautifully illustrated cloth map, with a more minimal version on the flip side. The dry-erase landmark tiles are satisfyingly reusable, the tracker board and card stander feel solid, and the box insert keeps everything neatly in place. With 150 map cards and 37 chunky tiles, Landmarks looks and feels as smart as it plays.
# gifted in exchange for review
Where to buy this:
https://www.m-g.com.au/product/landmarks/
Find your local game stores here: https://www.localgamestores.com.au/
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