Kingdom Death: Monster is a fully cooperative tabletop hobby game experience. Set in a unique nightmarish world devoid of most natural resources you control a settlement at the dawn of its existence. Fight monsters craft weapons and gear and develop your settlement to ensure your survival from generation to generation.Campaign System Embark alone or with up to 3 friends (5 with game variant) on a 5-30-lantern-year campaign with each year consisting of a cycle of hunt showdown and settlement phases. The settlement phase is an intricate civilization building game in which you spend very limited resources to build buildings research new technologies train your warriors and set up your strategy for survival. During the hunt you'll encounter a series of stories in a choose your own adventure style journey through various events and encounters. Finally when you meet the monster you're pursuing you'll engage it in an a massive arena-style battle where only one party is going to survive. If your party lives you'll be able to bring the spoils back home to use in expanding your settlement.Monster AI System Each of the 7 monsters included are controlled by their own pair of decks that scale to 3 levels of difficulty (except for the final encounter which has only 1 level and it's HARD!). Every encounter even with the same monster is highly variable and no two showdowns will resolve the same way. Players will have to plan their gear and keep their minds sharp to prevail.Gear System In Kingdom Death: Monster survivors will craft gear from resources earned from defeating monsters or found on their hunt. Each survivor has a 3x3 gear grid. Selection and arrangement of your gear cards is critical as many provided bonuses and activate special rules when aligned correctly.Story Event System 40+ Story Events plus over 100 hunt encounters will shape and guide your campaign. Story Events detail important evolutions in your civilization introduce new monsters and provide rich detail for your campaign. Some will trigger automatically as you progress through the campaign but most will be entirely based on choices players make.Story Events cover everything from setting up and fighting a monster to key events that happen within the overall story. Some are triggered directly from the timeline and others from choices you make in game.
Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon is an unforgettable solo or cooperative adventure experience for 1-4 players. Blending Arthurian legends and Celtic mythology with a unique vision it allows you to impact the game world in deep and meaningful ways. A deep branching storyline allows you to tackle problems in different ways ensuring no two games play alike. Difficult decisions or harrowing choices wait behind every corner and seemingly minor tasks may reverberate with major long-term consequences.In a land slowly sinking into the Wyrdness and torn apart by conflict; surviving each day is a challenge on its own. Starvation sickness violent weather and random incidents all conspire to end your journey. Guardian Menhirs that ensured safe travel throughout the realm are slowly going dark turning simple logistics into an involving puzzle. To overcome these challenges your character develops along several conflicting lines such as Brutality / Empathy or Practicality / Spirituality. These traits unlock a rich choice of mutually exclusive skills and lead to different deck-building strategies making character advancement meaningful and deep.The character you develop is going to be tested during dozens of combat and non-combat encounters. Sometimes you will need to brute force your way but often diplomacy might be a better option. Regardless whether you fight with your strength or your wits our unique dice-less encounter system makes resolving each conflict fun and exciting while keeping you immersed in the game.In Avalon there’s a legend waiting behind every stone and every tree. All locations have their own rich stories and secrets to discover. Places and characters are often much more than they seem. As you slowly put all the pieces of the larger puzzle together the land will always have a surprise waiting for you just around the corner. Many secrets can be discovered only after several games. Created by one of the best Polish fantasy authors Krzysztof Piskorski the story of Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon aims to push the boundaries of non-linear narrative building upon the rich experience.—description from the publisher
This War Of Mine: The Board Game is the tabletop adaptation of the award-winning video game that pictures the drama of civilians trapped in a war-torn city. You will enter this experience as a group of civilians trapped in a besieged and conflict-ridden city enduring many hardships that often test the essence of humanity. During your struggle as the survivors you will experience dramas connected with making extremely difficult decisions and choices and have to face the consequences of your actions sooner or later.TWOM: The Board Game features a multiplayer experience for up to 6 players as well as a solo variant. You will be able to personify one of the well-known characters from video game and face hundreds of new challenges and difficult choices. The boardgame significantly broadens the original game’s universe and emphasizes the depth of plot yet its main focus will be on human interactions driven by survival instinct and group decision-making. TWOM: The Board Game is an instant play game with no need for reading the manual before starting the adventure.During day time you will take shelter in a ruined tenement house which you will care about and manage by: removing rubble searching through various rooms (often behind barricaded doors) you will build beds improvised workshops stoves tools water filters small animal traps you will cultivate an improvised vegetable garden fix the tenements’ shelled facilities reinforce the security of your shelter and should winter come you’ll try to keep it warm.Upon nightfall your main duties will consist of guarding your shelter and what little possessions you can accumulate against bandits and raiders. Those in your group fit for such a task will use the cover of the night to carefully explore dozens of the ever-changing locations scattered throughout the dangerous city in search of all the things that a person needs to survive (materials food meds equipment etc.). On your way you will meet tens of characters each with a unique story (residents of the locations you visit thieves bandits soldiers war victims refugees neighbors traders and members of local communities) each encounter is a potential unique adventure. To guide you through all these events you will have the special SCRIPTS mechanism responsible for implementing the deep and complex story and a coherent plot (each game will be unique and different than the previous).Your goal is to survive until the cessation of war hostilities. However survival itself will often prove not to be enough. The price each of you will decide to pay might be too high in the final outcome. So the goal is really to survive in a way that will let you live on with the decisions you made. The EPILOGUES mechanism will kick in here.
Monikers is a party game based on the public domain game Celebrities where players take turns attempting to get their teammates to guess names by describing or imitating well-known people.In the first round clue givers can say anything they want except for the name itself. For the second round clue givers can only say one word. And in the final round clue givers can’t say anything at all: they can only use gestures and charades.
Dead of Winter: The Long Night is a standalone expansion for Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game that introduces the Raxxon location where horrible experiments will spill out into the town unless players can contain them.The game has players at a new colony location trying to survive with new survivors against brand new challenges. Can you handle being raided by members of other colonies? Will you explore more and unravel the mysteries of the Raxxon pharmaceutical location to find powerful items but release stronger enemies? Or will you upgrade your colony to help it better withstand the undead horde? These are all choices you will get to make in this new set and if you want you can mix in the survivors and cards from the original set to increase the variety even more.Part of the Dead of Winter series.
Escape Tales: The Awakening is a story driven escape room in card game form with immersive exploration no time limits when solving puzzles and a collection of tough choices that will captivate and immerse you deeply. As for the story here's the set-up:Players take on the role of Sam whose daughter has been in a coma for over two months and whose doctors still cannot explain how this happened or what caused it. According to them everything is fine with the girl; she's healthy and shouldn't be in this condition. Sam is desperate and looks for answers everywhere he can which leads to a weird meeting with Mark.Mark's son was once in a similar situation and his father was able to help wake the boy up. He has given Sam a scary-looking book and said that inside this book he will find a ritual called The Awakening. But Mark warned Sam that he needs to prepare himself mentally since this ritual will transfer him into another dimension where he should be able to find his daughter and understand what is the cause of this state. If Sam's lucky enough then he will be able to wake her up as well. Sam has held onto the book for more than a week. Finally he's ready to go into the basement and perform a ritual. Are you ready too?Content warning: suicide
This is an adult version of the award winning Telestrations. Gameplay is the same but the word content has changed to more adult fare. Some of the word cards now include stuff such as Anaconda Jackhammer Doggie Style and Human Centipede.
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their CODENAMES.In Codenames: Deep Undercover two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin.Codenames: Deep Undercover' can be played as a standalone game or combined with other Codenames titles.
They ravaged their Mother the Earth and bound Her with sorcerous chains. The moon caught fire; the sun froze. In the veins of the world her lifeblood choked to dust. The oceans boiled to miasmas that clotted the skies. Rocks fanged up from the stubble of dying forests. As She began to rot Her creatures Her children survived as best they could. Tearing at each other prowling in Her fetid hollows breeding abominations. Feasting on Her Fungi and moulds become sentient.And as the ages pass some lineages of men grow monstrous even as others diminish weaken and become easily their slaves. These higher men feed on the lesser growing in strength and hurl their tribes one upon the other in terrible truceless wars — until one tribe crushes the others into kneeling submission under a lord nameless save for his title: Tyrant!But though decayed She was not slain. With the little strength remaining She seduces Worm; the least the most abject of those creatures bred for meat. Unlikely savior through sorcery and helped by unlooked for allies Worm follows the thread of his fate to Her. If he can free Her Her blood will spout into a flood and frenzy of returning Life. And her hatred will swell Worm into being Her champion Her consort and Her AVENGER the Horned God!Based on the graphic novels by the acclaimed Adrian Smith HATE is a highly kinetic endlessly brutal campaign game of post-apocalyptic survival. Up to six players battle through a multi-game Chronicle where they use their unique clan to savagely plunder mutilate and demoralize their opponents. Death is permanent for clan members; once they die they are out of the game. The player who most expertly uses savagery (gained by doing unspeakable violence upon their foes) to upgrade their warriors and resources (gained by plundering the land) to unlock powerful new abilities from their village will win the game but only the player with the most hate will become the Tyrant and rule over the rest!—description from the publisher
Monikers: Serious Nonsense is a standalone expansion for Monikers. It features 330 cards written by the folks at Shut Up & Sit Down.The brand new set from Shut Up & Sit Down also includes the MUCH REQUESTED return of the Monikers: Twelve Hopelessly Stupid Fourth Rounds! (minus the two least interesting ones)
Includes 440 new Monikers cards which is the size of the original game (and four times the size of a regular expansion).The box can hold up to 2000 Monikers cards.The 2019 edition of Monikers: More Monikers has been condensed down to 330 cards and a normal sized box.
From the creators of Cyanide & Happiness comes a card game where players compete to finish an awful comic strip.The creators said:Someone on the Internet once told us that making stick figure comics is easy as hell and that we were ugly and stupid.They were right on all counts. So after crying for a few hours we created the Random Comic Generator which since its inception in 2014 has entertained millions with its computer-generated comedy.After a few weeks of playing with the Random Comic Generator we started to wonder if its hundreds of random panels might lend themselves to a card game where you compete against your friends to finish a comic with a funny punchline. So we printed out all of the RCG panels and started playing with them.Draw 7 cards. The deck plays the first card select a Judge to play the second then everyone selects a third card to create a three panel comic strip. The Judge picks a winner.The game includes a deck of 350 unique panel cards - that’s 15.4 million combinations of comics!
Originally an expansion for Exploding Kittens the most successful Kickstarer project ever that contained cards that were too horrific and/or incredible to be included in a kid safe version. As a stretch goal this was turned into a stand alone game that can be combined with the standard Exploding Kittens deck. If you combine the two decks you can go up to 9 players. 10 with Imploding Kittens
Camp Grizzly is a semi-cooperative survival horror board game for 1-6 players.The year is 1979 players take the roles of Camp Counselors who are being stalked through a maze of cabins and camp trails by 'Otis' a homicidal killer with an unhealthy bear fetish.Working together the Counselors explore the camp grounds while searching for a combination of objectives that can trigger one of four different game endings. Those who survive the finale win the game!It won't be easy. After every round of player turns the NPC killer Otis stalks the closest targets around the board attacking whenever he gets the chance. Unarmed players PANIC are injured and forced to run away. Those lucky enough to have found protection are able to fight Otis with a dice roll. Better weapons mean higher value dice and a greater chance of success. Beat Otis and he disappears form the board until re-emerging from the woods on his next turn.Be warned as the body count rises Otis gains strength moves faster and becomes more deadly. Just when you think you're safe you may find him waiting right in front of you!If that's not bad enough players must draw Cabin Cards which have a wide variety of game changing effects both positive and negative. They contain Plot Twists Cameos weather changes special Otis cards clever Campers helpful Weapons and Items and fate tempting foolin' around cards.The Counselors won't give up so easily. In addition to their own inherent talents Survival Cards grant the players unique abilities and tactics to help elude or confront the killer.Who if anyone will survive?
In Trial by Trolley one player acts as the Trolley Operator and must choose where to send a murderous out of control trolley. Every other player at the table plays cards and argues in order to convince the operator to spare their lives and condemn everyone on the other track to a gruesome death-by-trolley.Each round one player will act as the trolley conductor. This person will be the judge and will choose which track the trolley will murder.Each other player is divided evenly among teams and each player(s) will have a role for the round.To begin one player will draw 3 angelic tracks choose one to play to the table and then randomly reveal a 2nd angelic track from the deck to add to the track. Another player will draw 3 demonic tracks and choose to add one to the opposing teams track attempting to sabotage them and spare their own tracks. Finally player(s) will draw track modifiers to place on any track card on the table. They can play on their own tracks to sway the judge or they may play on their opponents to further sway the judge into murdering their opponent's track.The judge will ponder this conundrum and eventually decide to murder one track. The track that was spared is the winner for the round!Play continues for a number of rounds pre-determined by the number of players at the table.Trial by Trolley is a game for 3-13 players and plays in about 30-90 minutes.—description from the publisher
Drug use personal demons wild episodes and more. Side Effects is a take that card game where players race to treat all the diseases in their psyche with medication and therapy.Players start with four disease cards dealt face up in front of them (their psyche) and then four cards in a concealed hand. Players take turns picking up cards from the deck and trying to find the right drugs to treat their diseases. A drug card will treat a disease but also leave the player open to receiving new diseases (of that drug's list of side effects) from other players.Each disease card has a unique punishment written on it and episode cards will trigger these punishments. Play an episode card on another player to hinder them or help yourself.The game is over when one player treats all of the diseases in their psyche.
A fun co-op game! For each theme (funny or surprising) each player has to invent a response. But the intensity of the answer has to correspond to his secret number. Then if the Cap’ten puts the answers in the correct order the team wins!There are always 10 good reasons to say stupid things! A fun entertaining cooperative game!For each theme each player has to invent a response and say it. But the intensity of the answer has to correspond to his secret number from 1 (in blue) to 10 (in pink). Then if the Cap’ten puts the answers in the correct order the team wins! Size doesn’t really matter but there are 500 themes!This game is the adult version of the famous Top Ten! Same principle but hot themes!EXAMPLES : - Find a place to have sex in the room you’re in. From the least comfortable to the most comfortable. - The helicopter is dropping humanitarian aid packages. But Roger got mixed up: what’s in the boxes? From a disaster to a nice surprise. - You ate magic mushrooms. What do you see around you? From a little hallucination to the trip of the century.
Oh no! A group of monsters has taken all the drinks in Barcadia! They've hoarded them away in an ever-changing dungeon so it's up to you brave adventurer to reclaim the precious Drink Hoard!Heroes of Barcadia is a 2-6 player tile-based dungeon-crawling tabletop party game with a liquid twist: your character’s health is measured by the drink in your glass. It uses the Liquid Life System™ to determine HP and the liquid you put in it is up to you. Will you use soda water alcohol or another beverage of your choice?Build out your dungeon fight monsters collect Power-Ups to advance your character's abilities and use Loot Cards to stop your opponents from reaching the Grand Drink Guardian first. Nice guys finish last in this fast-paced ever-changing pun-tastic party game so come ready to rum-ble and bring your thirst for adventure!Includes:6x Plastic Signature Move Cards 57x Plastic Room Tiles 16x Plastic Trap Tokens 75x Plastic Loot Cards + 5 Plastic DIY Loot Cards 25x Plastic Power-Up Cards 6x Plastic Reference Cards 6x 20-sided dice that correspond with the Character Cups 1x Rulebook 1x Box
Maria is locked up in a psychiatric ward and must escape finding her son before it’s too late. The Pendulum of the Dead is the first episode of the murderous trilogy about Maria.50 Clues is an immersive puzzle game that offers the experience of an escape room but in a format that can be played at home. You combine objects solve puzzles and decipher codes to complete the story. A smartphone or tablet keeps track of the solutions and provides multistep hints if the need arises.
In 1978 four friends experience a nightmarish ordeal. Steve Randy Ginger and Dawn innocently set out to camp and enjoy the countryside near a small town on Halloween. Unfortunately their car breaks down and they meet with pure darkness the Psycho Raiders once they are on your trail they hunt to the death...This horrifying halloween night may not be survived. The true story of what happened on this fateful evening comes alive in the pages and gameplay of Halloween Nightmares.Psycho Raiders is a horror simulation experience. Unlike games that tend to aim for perfect balance Psycho Raiders' main focus is delivering the terrifying experience that occurred on this Halloween night. Characters and situations are not balanced to equal one another but created to simulate the actual experience. The game begins very slanted to the raiders they will assuredly destroy if fighting just ill prepared campers. Through the use of finding weapons or alerting the nearby town folk of Crucible the campers can possibly turn the tables on the raiders. But there may also be a horrid realization that certain town folk are raiders themselves. The campers may not be able to trust anyone! It might be best to run! RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN!Psycho Raiders is a tactical hex and counter game with each token representing an individual character. Characters have sheets with some individual stats related to speed strength and will to live. In the short game the campers can win if any of them escape the north end of the map while hidden.Psycho Raiders is a very visceral experience and we have rated it X. Anyone one under the age of 18 is NOT permitted to play. Pregnant or players with a fragile or nervous disposition are strongly encouraged NOT TO PLAY THIS GAME!GAME COMIC CREATED BY CHARLIE FOGEL!Note: Psycho Raiders is the first game featured in our Halloween Nightmares Horrorgame Magazine a game magazine dedicated to Halloween and the Horrorgame genre. Players will need to xerox elements and provide two D6 and pencils to play this game
You have finally set out to find the truth. You've heard the rumors of ancient runes and the lost pages of a scattered tome that tell of ancient and evil monstrosities calling for their return. You've heard tales of those who came before you in this search losing grip on their sanity as they grew nearer to the truth. As you press on you can't help but notice that you feel less attached to reality yourself. Some days you lose track of time and can't account for hours of the day. The whispers of secret gates to another world are growing stronger and while no one knows who is building them you have a dreadful hunch...Could you be the hidden architect of the Gates of Delirium?In Gates of Delirium players have a hand of split action cards: one side sane and the other insane. Every round one player decides whether the round is sane or insane and all players must play that side of their cards. During sane rounds players search for maps and lost pages to a secret tome while assigning investigators to help them in their cause. During insane rounds players collect ancient runes and work to build gates to release the monstrosities that their sane selves have been trying so hard to understand and prevent. Earn the most victory points by the time the last monstrosity is released to win Gates of Delirium.—description from the publisher
Maria is on the run with her son while also preparing for the big showdown. But will she make it? White Sleep is the second episode of the murderous trilogy about Maria.50 Clues is an immersive puzzle game that offers the experience of an escape room but in a format that can be played at home. You combine objects solve puzzles and decipher codes to complete the story. A smartphone or tablet keeps track of the solutions and provides multistep hints if the need arises.A How to Play video is available here: 50 Clues: The Pendulum of the Dead
Warning: NSFW!!! (Unless your boss appreciates a good deck joke.) If 69% of your conversations involve dirty jokes and inappropriate COMMENTS you're going to love the new NSFW edition of Unstable Unicorns. The game play is the same as the beloved classic but the unicorns are significantly...Hornier. Are all the cards sexual? F*** neigh! Some are just delightfully disgusting.This new edition combines all the cards from the Unstable Unicorns: NSFW Pack you already know and love with 73 brand-new cards (plus 8 reference cards) to make a complete 135-card game!—description from the publisher
Maria has gathered enough strength to confront Leopold but first she must track him down. The Fate of Leopold is the third episode of the murderous trilogy about Maria.50 Clues is an immersive puzzle game that offers the experience of an escape room but in a format that can be played at home. You combine objects solve puzzles and decipher codes to complete the story. A smartphone or tablet keeps track of the solutions and provides multistep hints if the need arises.A How to Play video is available here: 50 Clues: The Pendulum of the Dead
Prepare to navigate the perilous world of Westeros with Tiny Epic Game of Thrones where alliances are fragile betrayals are common and the fate of your House hangs in the balance. Players will assume the roles of the mighty houses of the Seven Kingdoms each vying for power influence and control of the Iron Throne.As you step into the shoes of iconic characters you'll face challenging dilemmas engage in intricate political maneuvering and wage epic battles for supremacy. Will you forge powerful alliances with other noble houses or will you plot their downfall to seize their lands and resources? The choices you make will have far-reaching consequences affecting not only your House but the entire realm. Can you outwit your rivals and ensure the survival and prosperity of your House in the unforgiving Game of Thrones?In Tiny Epic Game of Thrones players utilize an innovative limited-action dice mechanism to strategically choose actions such as plot whisper event march and sail. With the option to follow other players' actions players will be engaged every turn.Furthermore players will wield the immense power of their respective Houses through a versatile hand of multi-use cards that allow players to plot against the influential houses of Westeros orchestrate grandiose events and partake in exhilarating battles. They will wage war across all of Westeros sieging castles taking lands and forging crucial alliances all for a chance to sit upon the Iron Throne. After six rounds of play one player will emerge as the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and be crowned the winner!—description from the publisher
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Rogue Angels is a character-driven solo or co-op Sci-Fi adventure for 1-4 players. The game blends engaging narrative with impactful choices leading to multiple paths through various missions and personal journeys.Rogue Angels merges tactical combat with fluent turns and action management with asymmetric abilities where you fight behavior-driven enemies through combined card and dice play.The experience is much more than hack'n'slash as Rogue Angels takes you through stealth missions search and rescue infiltration evacuations sabotage and much more. Many missions allow for flexible player approaches and adaptation.Throughout your journey the decisions you make will permanently shape your character's personality and their relationship with other individuals opening and closing possible paths along the way.Rogue Angels offers individual difficulty settings allowing players an experience best suited for their level.Set in the Burning Suns universe you will be travelling a diverse galaxy and locations with various factions all vying for their way of life. You get the opportunity to become a hero shield civilians from conflicts defend your spaceship from boarding enemies and help save the galaxy.But be careful as your team will be tested in numerous scenarios and face difficult choices in and outside of combat and you will not be offered a second chance.As a leader you must be willing to sacrifice everything and your legacy to bring peace to the many species of the Burning Suns.—description from the designer
