While card placement in Open Ocean is fairly simply, there’s a few things that tripped us up in our first play. Open Ocean action examples Open Ocean Card Placement Finally you take the turtle card and place it at the edge of your reef. Then take one of the newly dealt cards and place it into your reef and resolve any actions.
In Open Ocean players manage their own personal coral reef composed of cards (fish, sharks, turtles, anemone, and coral) all gorgeously illustrated by game designer Joel Bodkin. The fish and other creatures have fled into the open ocean and it’s your job to entice them back to their homes to begin the process of rebuilding. In Open Ocean from Featherstone Games you get to live out your inner marine biologist and help repair the damage done by a typhoon. The ocean is home to innumerable species of fish, plants, and other life, but nowhere is that more evident than in coastal reefs – some of the most diverse and abundant ecosystems on the planet.