"The 'Escape from Devil's Island' is a game where players have to escape from an island that is being destroyed, while they have to remember where they have placed their people/players with the highest score on their board (island) to increase their final score.

An island consisting of 40 hexagonal tiles sinks slowly into the ocean (as the tiles are removed from the board). Each player controls ten people (with scores ranging from 1 to 6) who are trying to move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the island is ultimately destroyed.
Players can either swim or use boats to escape from the island, but they must avoid sea monsters, whales, and sharks until they reach the shore.

Very nice game! Awesome! Smart, strategic, suspenseful, and because it is competitive (who will eat whom to survive), it also leads to arguments!!! Hahaha!
It has become one of our favorite games that is frequently played! It is definitely worth the money!

Note: Regarding the part "while they have to remember where they have placed their people/players with the highest score on their board to increase their final score."

A slight variation: We noticed that if we know the people with the highest score, it is a bit "unfair" because we intentionally place them in front and close to the boats, so we make sure to put them all in the boats first to save them and have the highest score. However, this is not very interesting, so we decided to change it by shuffling them, keeping them in our hands, and placing them blindly, without seeing who we are placing where, leaving it to chance who will be saved and how much score we will have! We liked it more (at least us) this way, and since then, we always play it like that!
Try it yourself if you want and judge for yourself how you would like to play it. Have a good time!"

The game is incredibly fun and exciting. We usually play it with 3-4 people, but it's definitely better and more competitive/chaotic with 4 people, as it becomes a real frenzy until it's your turn again, since 1+3 tiles will have disappeared from the island and you will likely have to readjust the survival tactics of the explorers.

Each move is equivalent to the sinking of one of the 40 island tiles, and your explorers have really slim chances of making it, with only 4 out of 10 successful attempts being considered a great achievement and a recipe for victory.

Practically, the game ends when all the explorers drown/get eaten or when the volcano randomly explodes on one of the mountain tiles (the sand and later forest tiles will have already disappeared by then).

Until then, the mixture of strategy, tactical moves of opponents, bluffing, and luck creates an explosive combination that raises adrenaline.

The game is not only focused on rescuing your own explorers (human figures with points under their feet that you have to remember who they are and where they went once you place them on the island) but also on making crucial decisions on whether to move your own pawns (explorers, boats with explorers) or neutral pawns (empty boats or three-person boats without a majority of one player) or even whales/sharks/monsters to make it harder (sink the boat with a whale) or to sabotage the opponents (with a shark or monster). You also have to be suspicious of where each player has placed their explorers with the most points in order to sabotage them.

First and foremost, you have to help your own, preferably those with many points (as long as you remember who they are after 5-10 moves), to step on one of the 4 corner islands. Until the last tile, a rescue can turn into a boat overturn or an attack from a monster and ultimately into a shipwreck and a complete failure.

It skillfully combines many types of winning strategies based on the placement and development of pawns (explorers, sea monsters) without being overly chess-like and boring, so it can be played by anyone.

It can be easily played by 7-year-old children (the little one gets especially excited if their sea monsters don't eat their pawns) while the 5-year-old can play it without obviously delving into the strategy.

One downside is that it gives countless opportunities for misunderstandings among immature or selfish characters, such as why me and not him, why did you sink the tile where my explorer was standing, why did you break my boat, why did you send a shark/monster that ate my pawns? Also, it's really frustrating when your pawns get eaten by monsters just before you reach the shore or when the volcano erupts one move before you empty the boat that took a lot of effort to reach the coast. It's fun when you diplomatically place your own explorers on someone else's boat, forcing the opponent to carry you to safety.

One rather noteworthy, if not negative(?), aspect is that the title was translated from "Escape from Atlantis" to "Rescue from the Island of the Devil". Okay...

Excellent, balanced, Machiavellian game for people who know how to lose!