Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Horror Board Games

By: Jamy

Jamy — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:02:16 +0000

I found this page while looking for fun, spooky games for my kids. The game I loved the best when I was a kid (back in the 70s) was Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows board game. I still have the original game up in the top of my closet and I pull it out for my kids to play every now and then.

By: shimo

shimo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:31:45 +0000

So the Dawn of the Dead game mentioned by another commentor has a loooot of rules, and is weighted heavily in favor of the zombies (which makes some sense but does not really make for a balanced game). A couple other games of horror for zombie fans would be “Zombies!!!”, which you build as you play by laying map tiles each turn, and Mall or Horror, which adds a twist where the board is really simple but strategy is important, i.e. making alliances with other players. Recommended (both)!

By: buschap

buschap — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:55:54 +0000

I had I Vant to Bite Your Finger. When Dracula’s cape opened, you had to put your finger in his mouth and press down. He didn’t always “bite”.

Debbie, I think it’s the other way around. I Vant to Bite Your Finger was introduced in 1979, and Don’t Wake Daddy didn’t come out until 1992.

By: kay

kay — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:09:31 +0000

Jk,
I owned nightmare! I loved that game until my brother and I played it too much and memorized the VHS.

By: roi_ratt

roi_ratt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:05:16 +0000

Does anybody remember the game Atmosfear? It was around in the mid nineties and was serious fun. Very similar (probably a modernized version) of the Mummy one. You put a tape in the VCR and play the game. Seemingly randomly this gatekeeper dude would show up and tell the players what to do… time to hit e-bay.

By: jk

jk — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:53:11 +0000

how about nightmare? it comes with a vhs tape and you race against the decomposing gate keeper for a timed game full of maggots and other treats!

By: Amauriel

Amauriel — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:36:53 +0000

Fruppi, you beat me to it!

My friends and I LOVE Arkham Horror. It’s all based on the Cthulhu Mythos and is great fun. There are even expansion boards to give it a twist the second you think you’ve got it figured out.

We also have the game Zombies!!! which is a “get to the chopper before you get eaten” game, and then there is Last Night On Earth, which is also zombie based and is enjoyable as a twist, as some players play as the zombies and some play as the survivors.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:28:02 +0000

Wow, I hadn’t thought of Ghost Town or 13 Dead End Drive in years.

The vampire biting your finger sounds ripped off from Don’t Wake Daddy. Regardless, I would still totally play it.

Suddenly, the reCaptcha letters look…a bit spookier than usual.

By: Del Howison

Del Howison — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:35:22 +0000

Hey, thanks for referring to our book. The Book of Lists Horror was a lot of fun to put together and we call it the best book for the smallest room in the house!

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:24:55 +0000

There was a Nightmaare on Elm Street game that came out in either the late eighties or early nineties that was a board game. I have vague memories of playing it with my sister, and it may still be in my mother’s attic somewhere. It was a pretty weird game.