Skull Tales

About this board game

Skull Tales is a cooperative adventure board game for 1–4 players, with sessions lasting around 180 minutes. Each player takes the role of a pirate pursuing the ultimate prize: becoming the ship’s Master and claiming the most precious booty.

Your crew’s journey carries you across the Caribbean Sea and onto mysterious islands. Explore modular boards, confront fantastic enemies, and solve mysteries while trying to survive the dangers waiting in each scenario.

Every character brings different abilities to the adventure. Players use those abilities to investigate scenarios and islands, complete secondary missions, and work together to escape alive—because, as the old saying goes, dead men tell no tales.

• Fight a variety of fantastic enemies.
• Solve mysteries across different scenarios and islands.
• Sail the Caribbean Sea and explore modular boards.
• Roll dice and play cards to move, fight, or sail.
• Pursue prestige points and the title of ship’s Master.

Dice and cards shape how pirates move, battle, and sail, with available actions depending on how many prestige points remain. Players must balance their individual abilities and ambitions with the shared need to make it through the adventure.

Released in 2015, Skull Tales combines pirate exploration, combat, mystery-solving, and cooperative survival in a lengthy adventure for crews ready to risk everything in search of glory and treasure.