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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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.