Our definitive ranking of the best horror board games, based on aggregated critic scores from multiple trusted review sources.
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The board games presented here have been vetted by various industry experts and the scores attibuted to them have been calculated based on our unique built-in classification system. Without further ado, here are some horror board games that you can sink your teeth into...
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Smirk & Dagger Games
Design: Cameron Reid·Art: Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartek Kucharski, Michael Whitlark, Petr Joura, Xu Xi Guang, Bien Flores, Gustavo "Goose" Gutierrez
Hell of a Deal is a cooperative Texas Hold'em-style poker game where players team up to play against The Devil Himself and the minions of Hell. Because the denizens of Hell all cheat, players will have to bend the rules and cheat as well to tip the odds in their favor.
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Le Scorpion Masqué, IELLO, FoxGames
Design: Annick Lobet·Art: Rémy Tornior, Nikao
Zombie Teenz Evolution is a cooperative legacy-style board game where players work together to protect their town from a horde of zombies by delivering food crates back to the school. As you play, you unlock mystery envelopes and new content that evolve the game rules and experience over time.
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WizKids
Design: Frank Brooks, Stephen Hand, Kevin Wilson·Art: Chris Beck, Samuel R. Shimota
Fury of Dracula is a deep and thematic board game where players engage in a cat-and-mouse hunt across Europe. One player controls the cunning Dracula, hiding his movements and spreading his vampire influence, while 2-4 other players cooperatively take on the roles of hunters, deducing his location and attempting to corner and defeat him. The game requires significant commitment to learn and play, offering a cinematic and suspenseful experience.
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Ravensburger
Design: Michael Mulvihill·Art: George Doutsiopoulos, Kory Lynn Hubbel, Victor Maristane, Tom Moore
Horrified: American Monsters is a cooperative board game where players team up to defeat iconic American cryptids such as Bigfoot, Mothman, the Jersey Devil, and the Chupacabra. Released in 2021, it is a standalone sequel to the original Horrified game, featuring similar gameplay where investigators must work together to overcome unique monster challenges. The game supports 1 to 5 players and is recommended for ages 10 and up.
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Avalon Hill, Hasbro
Design: Dave Chalker, Banana Chan, Noah Cohen, Bruce Glassco, Brian Neff, Will Sobel, Jabari Weathers·Art: Henning Ludvigsen
Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition is a popular board game known for its unique blend of cooperative exploration and eventual betrayal, where players explore a haunted mansion they construct tile by tile. As they discover new rooms and items, a random 'Haunt' scenario is triggered, turning one player into a traitor against the rest. The game offers high replayability through its numerous Haunt scenarios and evolving gameplay.
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Bézier Games
Design: Ted Alspach, Akihisa Okui·Art: Ted Alspach, Gus Batts
One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a fast-paced social deduction game for 3-10 players where everyone gets a hidden role with special abilities. Over the course of a single night and a five-minute discussion phase, players must figure out who among them is a werewolf before lynching a suspect.
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Pearl Games
Design: Nicolas Robert·Art: Weberson Santiago, Luis Francisco
In The Bloody Inn, players take on the role of a family of greedy, murderous innkeepers in 19th-century France who plan to rob and murder travelers passing through their remote inn. Players must carefully balance bribing guests, building annexes, executing murders, and secretly burying bodies to accumulate the most wealth while avoiding police investigations.
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Awaken Realms, Rebel Sp. z o.o.
Design: Adam Kwapiński·Art: Piotr Foksowicz, Ewa Labak, Patryk Jędraszek, Andrzej Półtoranos
Nemesis is a semi-cooperative science fiction horror game where players are crewmates aboard a spaceship infested with hostile alien organisms. Players must survive while fulfilling conflicting secret objectives, creating tension between cooperation and betrayal as they desperately fight to make it back to stasis pods before the ship auto-jumps.
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Flying Frog Productions
Design: Jason C. Hill·Art: Ralph Horsley, Brian Snoddy, Ben Wootten, Jack Scott Hill
Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients is a fast-paced, fully cooperative dungeon-crawl board game set in the monster-ridden Old West with a heavy dose of unspeakable horror. Heroes explore dangerous mines and portals to otherworlds, finding new enemies to fight, loot to collect, and dark dangers to overcome.
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Ravensburger
Design: Prospero Hall, Peter Lee, Michael Mulvihill·Art: Prospero Hall
Horrified: Universal Monsters is a cooperative strategy game where 1-5 players work together to defeat classic Universal Monsters terrorizing a town. Players collect items and use unique abilities to overcome the monsters' specific challenges, aiming to save the villagers and win against iconic foes like Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man.
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Fantasy Flight Games, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Galápagos Jogos
Design: Tony Fanchi, Corey Konieczka·Art: Henning Ludvigsen
Immerse yourself among the passengers and crew of the SS Atlantica as they cross the Atlantic Ocean while secretly harboring monstrous Deep Ones and cultists among them. Players must work together to manage crises and keep the ship afloat, but some among the crew are secret traitors trying to sabotage the voyage.
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Fantasy Flight Games
Design: Nate French, MJ Newman
Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a cooperative Living Card Game where players take on the roles of investigators exploring the mysterious and dangerous world of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Players build unique decks for their investigators and work together through campaign scenarios, making choices that have lasting consequences on the story.
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Monolith Board Games
Design: Croc, Laurent Pouchain·Art: David Demaret, Gautier Giroud, Martin Lavat, Stéphane Nguyen
Claustrophobia 1643 is an asymmetrical 2-player miniatures-based survival dungeon crawler set within the catacombs below New Jerusalem. One player commands a small group of human warriors, while the other controls a horde of infernal demons and troglodytes in tense, scenario-driven tactical combat.
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Fantasy Flight Games
Design: Corey Konieczka, Nikki Valens·Art: Anders Finér, Magali Villeneuve, David Griffith, Patrick McEvoy
Eldritch Horror is a cooperative game of terror and adventure in which one to eight players take the roles of globetrotting investigators working to solve mysteries, gather clues, and protect the world from an Ancient One. Players must travel across the globe to close gates, fight monsters, and prevent the apocalypse before the Ancient One awakens.
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Renegade Game Studios
Design: T. C. Petty III·Art: Janos Orban, Anh Le Art, Cold Castle Studios, Eric Hibbeler, Damien Mammoliti
My Father's Work is an app and narrative driven, worker placement game where players embody a family of mad scientists across three generations. The goal is to perform dangerous experiments and bring their ancestor's lifelong pursuits to fruition. It offers a highly thematic and rich storytelling experience, with an app integral to the narrative.
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Level 99 Games
Design: D. Brad Talton, Jr.·Art: Javier Roa González
Spooktacular is a competitive board game where players embody one of twenty unique movie monsters, escaping the silver screen into a theater on Halloween night, 1986. Players terrorize moviegoers, earning points by spooking and devouring guests, and clashing with rival monsters to become the most terrifying before the police arrive. The game features asymmetric monster abilities and deck management for unique play experiences.
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CMON (CoolMiniOrNot), Guillotine Games
Design: Raphaël Guiton, Jean-Baptiste Lullien, Nicolas Raoult·Art: Édouard Guiton, Miguel Coimbra, Mathieu Harlaut, Nicolas Fructus, Eric Nouhaut
Zombicide is a cooperative tactical miniature game where 1 to 6 players take on the role of survivors during a zombie apocalypse. Players work together to find weapons and kill zombies, aiming to achieve objectives and stay alive. The game is designed to be accessible for new players while offering enough strategic depth to remain engaging.
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Ameritrash Games, Trick or Treat Studios
Design: Jason Topolski·Art: Austin Madison
Camp Grizzly is a semi-cooperative survival horror board game set in 1979, where players take on the roles of camp counselors being stalked and chased by a deranged maniac named Otis. Players must work together to survive and reach the finale while navigating random, goofy, and unfair horror movie tropes.
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CMON Limited, Guillotine Games, Asmodee, Portal Games, Hobby World, REXhry, Game Harbor, Galápagos Jogos, Edge Entertainment, Delta Vision
Design: Rob Daviau, Eric M. Lang·Art: Thierry Masson, Nicolas Fructus, Richard Wright, Karl Kopinski, Adrian Smith, Edgar Skomorowski
A cooperative horror board game where investigators in the 1920s attempt to disrupt cult rituals and defeat Elder Gods from H.P. Lovecraft's mythos. Players work together to first weaken the summoned Elder One during its ritual phase, then battle it directly in an action-packed finale.
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Plaid Hat Games
Design: Jonathan Gilmour, Isaac Vega·Art: Peter Wocken, Fernanda Suárez, David Richards
Dead of Winter is a semi-cooperative story-driven game set during a harsh zombie apocalypse where players control a small, weakened colony of survivors. Players must work together to achieve a main objective and keep the colony alive, while simultaneously trying to accomplish secret individual objectives that may include betrayal.
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Van Ryder Games
Design: Evan Derrick, A. J. Porfirio·Art: Tyler Johnson, Vladyslava Ladkova, Roland MacDonald, Tumo Mere
Final Girl is a solitaire-only game that puts the player in the shoes of a female protagonist who must survive and defeat a slasher in order to win. It requires a Core Box and at least one Feature Film expansion to play, offering high replayability and a challenging thematic puzzle.
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Fantasy Flight Games
Design: Nikki Valens·Art: Yoann Boissonnet, Anders Finér, Magali Villeneuve, Tony Foti
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition is a fully co-operative, app-driven board game of horror and mystery for one to five players. Investigators explore haunted locations, solve puzzles, and fight Lovecraftian horrors while managing their health and sanity.
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Libellud, Asmodee
Design: Oleksandr Nevskiy, Oleg Sidorenko·Art: Igor Burlakov, Xavier Collette
Mysterium is a cooperative board game where one player takes on the role of a ghost, and the other players act as psychics. The ghost, unable to speak, uses abstract vision cards to provide clues to the psychics, who must interpret them to deduce the true suspect, location, and murder weapon. Players work together to solve the ghost's untimely demise before their seven hours run out.
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The Pandemonium Institute
Design: Steven Medway·Art: Aidan Roberts, John VanFleet, Grace VanFleet, Micaela Dawn
Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game where players are divided into good (townsfolk) and evil (demon/minions) teams. The townsfolk must deduce the hidden identity of the demon through logic, bluffing, and unique player abilities, while the evil team sows confusion. A key twist is that dead players remain engaged in the game, preventing early elimination and fostering continuous intense social interaction and storytelling.
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Kingdom Death
Design: Adam Poots·Art: Lokman Lam, Lorinda Tomko, Zeen Chin
Kingdom Death: Monster is a fully cooperative tabletop horror game set in a unique nightmarish world. Players control survivors who must hunt monsters and build settlements while managing resources and crafting gear from defeated creatures. The game features intense boss battles and settlement management phases across campaign years.
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