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Sharkula
Sharkula is a 2022 film where two men take jobs in an isolated seaside town. The town is revealed to be ruled by Dracula and a vampire shark.
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Ghost Castle
Ghost Castle is a game from Buffalo Games & Puzzles where 2-4 players compete to get their team of ghost hunters out of the house first.
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Cult of the Lamb
Cult of the Lamb is the latest release from Massive Monster and Devolver Digital and the cutest cult simulator of all time.
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Fright House by Fred Wiehe
Fright House by Fred Wiehe is a book about a young psychic named Penny who, after fleeing her old life, goes to work at a haunted house that used to be an asylum. Her boss calls in a TV ghosthunting crew to investigate the attraction after several employees go missing. Ghosts happen, chaos ensues, people die. I was sent a free copy for review.
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if you knew what this was about you'd never take me seriously again
Adorabyssal Oracle Card Game
The Adorabyssal Oracle deck also doubles as a card game for 2-4 players.
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The Hollow Woods
The Hollow Woods is a storytelling game with multiple ways to play. Player count varies, but usually 2-4 players come together to tell a story.
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Unlock: The House on the Hill
Unlock is a series of card games where 1-6 players work together to solve a mystery or go on an adventure. Here, I’m focusing specifically on the House on the Hill scenario.
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Ghosted
Ghosted is a game where 3-6 players are ghosts trying to solve their own murders. The ghost who can figure out who killed them, with what, and why, before anyone else wins.
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Blood Artist
An artist finds himself lacking inspiration and gets help from an unlikely source.
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oh, wyrm?
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a wolf for different reasons
Tales From the Loop: The Board Game
Tales From the Loop is a board game from Free League publishing based on the art book of the same title by Simon Stålenhag. In it, 2-5 players play a group of kids in the ‘80s solving various sci-fi mysteries. Free League was kind enough to send me a free copy to review.
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Bloody Good Horror
Bloody Good Horror is a horror anthology from HellBound Books containing 35 short stories with no set theme. The people at HellBound Books were kind enough to send me a free copy for review.
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Crime Zoom: “Bird of Ill Omen” and “His Last Card”
Crime Zoom is a series of investigation games where 1-6 players examine a scene and look through cards to try and solve a murder. My playtest groups and I tried the “Bird of Ill Omen” and the “His Last Card” scenarios.
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Toxic Shark
Toxic Shark is a movie about a shark that spits acid at people and turns them into zombies.
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Interview with Martin Takaichi
I had the opportunity to interview Martin Takaichi, the lead designer of the Tales From the Loop board game. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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Final Girl
Final girl is a single-player modular board gamewhere you take the role of a final girl as you fight to take down a fierce killer.
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Betrayal at House on the Hill
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a game by Bruce Glassco where 3-6 players explore a spooky old mansion until things take a darker turn and one betrays the others.
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Attack of the Jelly Monster
Attack of the Jelly Monster is a game where up to 5 players compete in a race to roll dice to clean up the most goo.
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Jaws: The Board Game
Jaws is a board game based on the 1975 classic film. Across two acts, up to 3 players control Quint, Hooper, and Chief Brody as they work to take down 1 other player- the one who controls the deadly shark.
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Not Alone
Not Alone is an asymmetrical hidden movement card gamewhere 1-6 players are explorers who’ve crash-landed on a mysterious planet and 1 is an alien creature hunting them down. The hunted players play place cards to move around the planet and the creature player has to figure out where they’ve gone and catch them.
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Dragon Fury (2012)
In my Wyvern review I mentioned how much I wanted to see more dragon-themed horror movies, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to have stumbled across this film. You can also imagine how heartbroken I was to find that this film utterly blows.
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Wyvern
Wyvern is a 2009 film in which Jake, an ice road trucker with a tragic past, must band together with the citizens of the small town of Beaver Mills to defeat a wyvern that was released from an iceberg by global warming.
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Dread Draw
Dread Draw is a competitive fortune-telling game where players take turns playing cards to summon monsters, dealing damage to their opponents, until only one player is left standing. At the end of the game the players attempt to tell the winner’s fortune.