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Play Overview
On each adventure, you must carefully manage your resources to stay alive and choose which heavy treasure you want to take back home. As you explore you interact with natives, trade with villages and communicate with lost civilizations. You can decide to loot the temple but must deal with traps. When eventually you come a cropper you start again from your home port, but if you don't get home you lose anything you find.
Each of the explorers you have in your party has different abilities both in combat and other interactions. They also affect your carrying capacity which determines how much treasure you can take home. The characters are affected permanently on expeditions, sometimes even dying or turning on you and stealing your treasure.
Although it's not an educational game you can play with a wide range of historical figures including Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Richard Francis Burton, Johan Huizinga, Mary Kingsley, Amelia Earhart, Nikola Tesla, Alexandra David-Neel, Marcus Garvey, Dion Fortune, Frederick Courtney Selous, Freya Stark, H. P. Lovecraft, Isabella Bird, Harriet Tubman, Ada Lovelace and Grigori Rasputin.
- Curious Expedition is on PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One.
- Curious Expedition Rivals is a multiplayer expansion of the game, coming soon to PC and consoles.
- Curious Expedition 2 is an enhanced version of the game with new abilities and adventures, coming soon to PC and consoles.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Curious Expedition 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 7 weeks ago.
Duration
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Skill Level
10+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. You need to be able to deal with lots of reading and use imagination to interpret the simple visuals. There are layered systems that need to be managed, both in terms of the combination of explorers you take but also how you handle them and their interactions out on the road. You need to be willing to try out different combinations and learn from the consequences. Although sometimes when you get it wrong some characters are lost for good.
Costs
Curious Expedition
Xbox One | £12.99 | – | – | |
PS4 | £3.59 | – | – | |
SALE | PC | £10.99 | £2.19 until 21/03/2024 | – |
Switch | £13.49 | – | – | |
SALE | Mac | £10.99 | £2.19 until 21/03/2024 | – |
Curious Expedition 2
Curious Expedition 2 - Robots Of Lux
Curious Expedition 2 - Shores Of Taishi
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.The following in-game purchases are available:
Curious Expedition 2: Highlands Of Avalon
Curious Expedition 2: Shores Of Taishi
Game Details
Release Date: 19/05/2015, updated in 2020
Price: 80% off
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Adventure, Strategy and Puzzle
Accessibility: 18 features
Components: 2D Side-On, Dice, Open World and Pixels
Developer: Maschi Mensch (@MaschiMensch)