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Mickeydubz (4 KP) rated Dark Souls: The card game in Tabletop Games

Apr 29, 2019

Really captures the atmosphere of Dark Souls (3 more)

Forces players to work together if they want to survive

The deck building allows you to customise your play style

A fun and replayable solo mode

The rulebook is confusing to say the least (3 more)

The setup and take down of the game is time consuming

This is not a game for those with short attention spans

Boss fights feel anticlimactic

Great idea, bad execution

The Dark Souls card game is a deep card game that has good replay value and a customisable deck building system that really feels like it exists in the Souls universe. If you enjoy the video game series and deck building games, then you're going to love the Dark Souls board game.

If you are planning on playing it though, you're going to need a few hours free to clear a full game. Most of the games I've played have been 3 hours from setup to takedown, though I have had games as short as 2 hours and as long as 4, it really depends on the skill and experience of your play group. Fortunately, DS is a mostly skill based game with elements of luck that you'd expect from any card game. Build your deck right and play as a team and you shouldn't have too many problems though.

In short, this is a great way to spend an evening, but it's definitely not a game you'll want to play every week. Pick it up and bring it out when you fancy a challenge, you won't regret having it in your collection.

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Tower Dash

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Play Tower Dash! The super addictive new game from the creators of Bird Climb and Spider Square. In...

Solitaire 2.0

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Solitaire 2 is the easiest solitaire game on the App Store. If you like Windows Solitaire, you're...

DinoMess: Dinosaur Games in Augmented Reality

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DinoMess is dinosaur adventure games with AR (augmented reality) features, where you hunt for dino...

Raiden Legacy

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RAIDEN LEGACY, a four-title compilation of the mega-popular RAIDEN arcade series, includes RAIDEN,...

LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Horrified: Universal Monsters Strategy Board Game in Tabletop Games

Oct 31, 2020

Horrified is a co-op board game based on the beloved Universal Monsters properties, and it's pretty damn fun.

First off, I love this series of movies. I recently bought a Blu-Ray boxset of them that I've been slowly working through, and they are still as entertaining now as they were when I was a kid.
Horrified pits 2-5 players against a selection of these horror icons, requiring them to complete character specific tasks before ultimately attempting to defeat whichever beast chosen, saving villagers along the way.
The roster is made up of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and his Bride, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each monster brings different objectives to the table in order to slay them, adding a large amount of variety to multiple games.
You can also play around with the amount of monsters you take on at once, adding different levels of difficulty to proceedings.

At first glance, the rules and many game pieces can seen overwhelming, but once the understanding sets in (there's an extremely handy tutorial video on the games official YouTube channel), it's a fun and sometimes tense experience, that is easy enough for any player to grasp.
It really does rely heavily on co-op and strategy to secure a victory, if you don't work together, then death is all but guaranteed!

I would happily recommend Horrified to any board game fan, especially those who like a bit of horror thrown in for good measure.
A huge thank you to @Smashbomb for sending me this via a giveaway (seriously go and apply to them!). Nice one!