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Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood is a deeply thematic, tactical campaign RPG for 1-4 players. Set in the grimdark world of the Deepwood, players form a free company fighting for humanity's survival against unnatural horrors. The game features a massive campaign with legacy elements, an immersive narrative enhanced by audio narration, and challenging boss battles.

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The Verdict

based on 21 reviews

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Immersive and Branching Narrative with Professional Voice Acting: The game features engaging storytelling with meaningful choices and professional voice acting from James Cosmo, enhancing the dark fantasy setting.
Unique and Highly Tactical Boss Encounters: Each boss fight is distinct, offering strategic depth through unique attack patterns, weaknesses, and a dynamic 'battleflow' card system.
Exceptional Production Quality and Components: Reviewers highlight the high-quality components, including detailed artwork, optional miniatures with an innovative armory system, and sturdy cardboard elements.
Flexible Combat System (Dice or Cards): Players have the option to choose between dice-rolling or card-drawing for combat resolution, catering to different preferences for randomness.
Effective Scaling for Various Player Counts: The game plays well from 1 to 4 players, offering a streamlined 'companion mode' that simplifies multi-hero management for solo or smaller groups.
High Rules Complexity and Learning Investment: With a medium-heavy complexity rating, the game requires a significant time investment to learn its extensive rules, which are spread across multiple rulebooks and can be cumbersome to reference.
Significant Time Commitment for the Full Campaign: The campaign is notably long, typically requiring 40-60 hours across approximately 20 chapters, which can be a barrier for players with limited gaming time.
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Tim Chuon, Tim ChuonVideo

Tim Chuon delivers an extremely positive review of Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood, declaring it the best campaign game they have ever played. The review highlights its immersive narrative, impactful decisions, and epic boss battles.

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Beastie Geeks, DavidArticle

This review highly praises Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood for its captivating, Witcher-like narrative and innovative boss-battler mechanics, blending elements from other top-tier games. It highlights the unique classes, balanced progression, and how it successfully avoids common drawbacks found in other campaign games.

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Shelfside, WoodyVideo

The Shelfside review praises Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood for its 'unbelievably thoughtful' design, highlighting its accommodating nature, epic story, customizable combat, and diverse character options. It notes the game's smooth operation despite its massive scale, acknowledging minor issues like rules complexities.

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Co-op Board GamesArticle

This review highly praises Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood for its compelling narrative, unique boss encounters, and exceptional production quality, noting its strategic combat depth and companion app support. It highlights the game's demanding learning curve, high difficulty, and premium price as potential drawbacks.

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Board Gaming Ramblings, Board Gaming RamblingsVideo

This video provides a first impressions review of the campaign and boss-battling board game, Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood. It covers various aspects like components, rules, playtime, story mode, combat, and overall thoughts after playing the initial chapters.

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Tabletop Gaming Magazine, DAN JOLINArticle

Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood is a highly praised RPG-lite campaign game, favorably compared to Gloomhaven, which offers an innovative card combat system and engaging story segments. The reviewer expresses strong admiration for its immersive and mechanically creative adventure, deeming it a 'MUST-PLAY.'

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No Pun Included, No Pun IncludedVideo

The No Pun Included review highly praises "Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood" as an ambitious and exceptionally good physical board game, exceeding expectations for a complex project. It highlights the game's innovative design and strong performance.

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3 Minute Board Games, J Carmichael and S RodgersVideo

The video reviews Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood, highlighting its immersive campaign, engaging narrative, and fun, brutal boss fights. It notes the significant time commitment, cost, and the necessity of playing with four characters.

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Hungry Gamer, WoodyVideo

Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood is a campaign-driven, dark fantasy board game that combines extensive narrative choices with tactical boss battles. It offers a deep and immersive experience with high production quality and a substantial playtime.

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Drive Thru Games, Joel EddyVideo

The reviewer highly praises "Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood" as a standout title focusing on engaging narrative choices and rich miniature combat encounters, considering it one of the best games of the year.

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Meeple Mountain, Jesse FletcherArticle

The reviewer highly praises Oathsworn for its impressive scope, unique components, and engaging narrative complemented by excellent voice acting. They found its two-phase gameplay, combining exploration with a distinct boss-battler combat system, to be a compelling and fun experience.

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Quackalope, QuackalopeVideo

Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood" garnered strong praise for its unique harvesting, well-designed characters/bosses, accessible rules, and immaculate organization. The engaging combat ensures a deep, enjoyable experience even over extended play sessions.

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