Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein (2019)
(2019)Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein is a thematic, story-driven worker placement game set in 19th-century Paris where scientists compete to harvest body parts, conduct grisly experiments, and successfully bring their own creature to life. Inspired by Mary Shelley's classic novel, players manage resources, deal with decay and decomposition, and race to fulfill the legacy of Victor Frankenstein.
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The Verdict
based on 16 reviews
“Man, I just love this game. I honestly can’t think of many games use the gameplay to enhance the theme like this one does.”
“We love this game. It's so true to the theme that you'd be forgiven for thinking that it was based on a sequel of Mary Shelly's own hand.”
“Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein is a tremendous win for Plaid Hat Games in this reviewer's eyes. They've really stitched their expertise in theme and world-building together with die-hard Euro gameplay; and it works brilliantly.”
“I really enjoy playing Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein. It does a wonderful job of combining worker placement with resource management and rewards players who think a round or two ahead.”
“For a like bigger longer worker placement game where you're gonna get the like the the levels of get this to get this to get this to get that i loved it as far as gameplay goes absolutely loved it”(13:23)
“Every time I've played it it's overstayed it's welcome slightly and I I like everything else about it I'm just like man just knock off a good that's half hour 40 minutes 30 minutes I like my father's work more but this game is fantastic”
“But I think an eight and a half is a very good score for this game.”(22:55)
“Mechanically, it is well-designed (if a rather long endeavor to play), but its theme is intense enough that I would only recommend it to adults who really love horror and enjoy longer, more involved games.”
“I think I gave this a rating of a and an 8 on bgg so that will bow down to a 4.5 and our rent rating scale and that would mean and make this an accepted game so abomination air Frankenstein is bgm accepted”(31:05)
“We both really really enjoy this game super surprised by how dark it is I love the fact that they went with it and they just ran with it I think there's something wrong with us for liking”(16:59)
“It's a 7.5 for me, a game that had so much promise, could have been high eights if it just would have known its boundaries on a few steps.”(14:11)
“The theme is out of this world, my favorite theme based game by far. The gameplay for the most part is also excellent especially with the way the theme ties into it.”
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