In order to find these totems, you will spend turns travelling from island to island on the steamship Manticore. Only by collecting totems scattered throughout the islands of this new world will the gods awake and allow you to return to your normal life. After freeing yourselves, you find the only way back to the real world is to wake the Sleeping Gods, who reside in this world. In Sleeping Gods, you’ve been Bermuda Triangled into a fantasy world, and immediately get captured by a group of ruggedly good-looking minotaurs. Where the game tells a great story through role-playing and doesn’t focus too hard on adhering to the letter of the law. Not the old school everyone vs the Dungeon Master version of D&D, but the new school D&D like Critical Role and Dimension 20.

It’s currently sitting as the fourth-best board game from 2021 on Board Game Geekĭespite all of this, Sleeping Gods still took me by surprise with how good it was.Īt its core, it’s Dungeons and Dragons. It won the 2021 Golden Geek for Best Thematic Game and has won over critics like Space-Biff, Player Elimination, and No Pun Intended. There’s no getting around it, Sleeping Gods is a fantastic game.