Hi, I want to buy a beautiful ameritrash (great detail to the physical elements of the game) horror-themed board game. I just want it to be the one with the best mechanics and most "fun". I would like to hear some ideas but also some arguments I can use to convince my LGS buddies to play it.
I have been checking out Kingdom Death, I have not bought it because even tho it's beautiful it is also expensive as fuck and people have told me is not a good game.
I have also considered Zombicide: Black Plague, but there is some loud dork in my group who claims is the most awful shit ever made.
Then there is The Others, which I will not buy because a friend already owns it and sometimes he even fucking remembers we like to play it.
I have also considered the Dark Souls game, which I played at a game store in another city. Is not bad, but I kind of dislike the node layout of the board and the movement mechanics. I know very little of the Bloodborne game.
I could go for a LCG or a deckbuilding like Dominion if the cardboard is of great quality, is the Cthulhu LCG a multiplayer game or is it 1 vs. 1? How is it?
I had a fucking blast playing Betrayal at the House in the Hill at a cousin's house and it is the one game I am currently considering to buy (even though the minis are a bit meh), but I would like to read Veeky Forums thoughts before buying anything.
To be honest, I could even go for an Euro-style horror-themed game, but I have not heard of such a thing (zombie placement mechanics instead of worker placement????).
James Nguyen
Have you considered Mansions of Madness?
Xavier Williams
>Mansions of Madness
Seconding this, it's superior to Betrayal in basically every way.
Gavin White
nope, and it has, i just Googled, a trove of minis and pretty stuff, is it good and """"""fun"""""""? Does it play like Betrayal?
Lucas Carter
Well, Betrayal does have the fun cooperative/competitive side with one player becoming the bad guy, but the downside is that some of the Haunts are a lot less interesting than others.
Although I am very interested about the upcoming Betrayal Legacy. Focusing the game on fewer, better Haunts and having some sort of permanent progression seems like it could make for a very fun experience.
Eli Cook
Mansions of Madness 2e is kind of a boxed horror board game. It comes with a companion app which stores data, runs monsters and has events occur as your investigators explore various environments in a lot of different scenarios, trying to discover clues, unravel mysteries and defeat monsters before things get out of hand. It's Betrayal-esque without the, well, betrayal mechanic.
Joseph Evans
so, you also build the mansion out of random, predetermined tiles as you explore it? does it has the element of one of the players eventually betraying the party or is it about a game master versus a players party? I like it is Cthulhu themed
Leo Barnes
*Boxed horror RPG
I always manage to gloss over important words
Ryan Fisher
>Betrayal Legacy Considering the kind of “social circle” the developers are part of given the guest writers of the WW expansion, I shouldn’t be surprised that those hacks are trying to cash in on the Legacy meme now.
Thomas Parker
so, it allows full cooperative mode without a game master (the app is the game master)? I think I have seen the app at the android store.
