Horrified Games - Universal Monsters - Strategy Board Game - Boost Critical Thinking & Teamwork - Cooperative Gameplay - Unique Monster Challenges - 1 to 5 Players - Adults & Kids 10+

I'm sixty-four. To me, board games are, "Life", "Pay Day", "Monopoly", etc... I was initially intimidated by this game. I'm used to rolling dice or using a spinner to play a board game. This game has players taking "actions" instead of rolling dice. The game is a cooperative game and takes a little time to setup, but it's very easy to setup. The game walked my wife, my granddaughter (ten-years-old), and me through what we needed to do. It went surprisingly smoothly. We enjoyed playing the game. The game beat us the first time but we won the next game. The game is great for having everyone work together to defeat the monsters. I had searched for reviews of starter/gateway family games and, "Horrified", was always listed with every search. I understand why now. I highly recommend this game. Granddaughter also approves.

Got this as a birthday gift for 11 year old nephew. It was close to Halloween so the theme and timing were in sync. Played it with my brother and other nephew aged 6. My brother is pretty good at picking up game rules quickly so he helped teach us all how to play and we had fun! The game is complex but the rules were easy enough to grasp so the kids caught on quickly and even I did too. There are a lot of variables and you can pick different combinations of monsters as opponents. Each monster requires different methods and strategies to defeat them and you can raise difficulty by playing against more monsters as you get better at the game and seek more of a challenge. It was fun working together as a team and even though we started in the “easy” mode, it was not a slam dunk… it was definitely a challenge. Seemed to be a hit with my brother’s family and I think they will play it a lot.

I really like this game. I ordered it for a gift I. The past and now ordered it again as a gift for someone else. I’m looking forward to being able to play it again. I’m not a big tabletop gamer but this is definitely fun to play. It took me and 1 other person about 2 hours to complete a round against 2 monsters. If it was just 1 it would have taken half that time. It has all the classic universal monsters and side characters from the movies. The instructions are easy to follow. It’s a high quality game and worth the price tag for sure.

This is a cooperative game where all players collaborate to defeat the monsters. I prefer these games as easier to teach and everyone is a winner (or loser together). I really like this game. Not too difficult to learn but the game mechanics keep the game fun and challenging. I would recommend this game for ages 10 and up. This game has solid art on the board, and cards, and pieces (called items). There are also pieces for the characters that are simple plastic (dracula, frankenstein, bride of Frankenstein, invisible man, and the wolf man. Nothing fancy but totally fine. My only recommendation would to use better card stock. Not bad, but some games have more solid feeling card stock. Overall the developer did a nice job with the overall components, themes, and art. Lastly, the actions and instructions are generally easy to understand. I enjoy this game and theme.

This review might be a little long; but I hope it is helpful. Yet, if you just want the bottom line, here it is: this is a fun, easy to learn and to fun play game for the whole family, provided that (a) you like “cooperative games” and (b) you don’t mind lower quality components. Now for more details: In this game, each player plays as a different character (with different special abilities) trying to help a village survive attacks from any number of several “classic” monsters while trying to complete certain tasks needed to defeat the monsters. As in all cooperative games, the players play together against the game itself. They can all win by meeting the winning conditions or lose in a number of different ways. The game is similar to another cooperative game called Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu, which is excellent but which did not get a lot of attention when it came out. Reign of Cthulhu, however is a hard game and you are likely to lose more often than not. In Horrified, it is much easier to control the difficulty level and it is not difficult to win when played against certain combinations of two monsters. The game can be set to a higher difficulty level by adding monsters or by selecting the monsters that offer more of a challenge to defeat. Horrified also does a slightly better job than Reign of Cthulhu in driving the theme of the game across. There are a lot of thoughtful little details in Horrified that those of you who have watched the classic horror movies will recognize (from the names of the Villagers, to the items the players collect to defend against, and attack, the monsters, to illustrations in some of the cards, etc.) Also, not everyone is familiar with the Cthulhu stories, but everyone (even younger kids) is familiar with Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, Dracula and the other monsters in this game. A game with four players should take about one and a half hours, which I think is perfect for a family game. All in all, I have enjoyed the game and look forward to playing it again with different combinations of monsters. Unfortunately, the game is not perfect and the biggest negative for me is the low quality of the components. The cards are really flimsy. You will want to sleeve them if you are going to play the game a lot, which adds a cost to the cost of the game. But the most disappointing is the quality of the monsters’ mini figures. They are made of cheap molded plastic. When I opened my copy of the game, I noticed the mummy had been in the box pinned under the weight of other components and was bent over looking like it was falling over. Dracula is also bending forward a little bit (looking like he is hovering over someone with this cape). I contacted Ravensburger and they graciously agreed to send me a replacement. But because they sent it in an envelope, the poor mummy was again crushed along the way and the replacement was in even worse condition than the original (see the photo). It barely stands up. I am not going to return the game because of a crappy figure, but being a big player in the board game market, Ravensburger should know better. Lastly, with so many cardboard pieces and the fragile figures, the box really needs a good insert that would let you organize the components and keep the figures from getting crushed. I now spend a lot of attention at how I place the figures back in the box because I am afraid they will bend while the game is not in use. I own at least one other Ravensburger game, by the way, so I am not trying to pick at them. On the contrary, I am saying they are a good company (and their customer service is great) which is why I am surprised at the low quality of the components in this game which I think will be a very popular game. I don't mind owning both Reign of Cthulhu and Horrified, but if you already own and love Cthulhu and play it often, this one might be redundant. But if you are looking for a more accessible theme, particularly for younger players, and particularly around Halloween, you want to consider Horrified. The Good: – Great theme – Fun and easy to play, easy to learn – Good for adults and children alike – Just about the right length playing time – High replayability value because you can create different combinations of monsters to play against – Easy to control the difficulty level – Can be played solo The Bad: – Fragile monster figures – No box insert – Low quality paper cards

This si not a children's game, but there's nothing horrifying in it--it's all good fun. Definite cooperative strategy. Takes a little learning (especially for some people) but definitely not overly complex.

I love Horrified and I’ve been playing it for awhile trying different monsters and heroes. At the moment I have only played alone so I haven’t had a chance to play with friends. Still it is fun and challenging game that I highly recommend. First I must say that Horrified is, in many respects, very similar to another popular co-op game Pandemic. In Pandemic you try to cure diseases whereas in Horrified you are trying to defeat the classic Universal Studios Monsters. What makes it different from Pandemic is that each monster must be defeated in a different way, but all of them requires turning in color items. For example to defeat Dracula you need to destroy 4 coffins (each 1 at a different location) with red items and then use yellow items to defeat Dracula. The game also introduces villagers that you must protect or ,if killed by a monster, the village Terror track rises bringing you closer to losing the game. In my personal opinion, I do like Horrified a little bit more than Pandemic for a couple reasons: 1. Each monsters unique way of defeating them 2. The theme itself. 3. It offers solo play. I don’t have many friends to play with and I have trouble getting friends to play this game, so I’m happy the game offers a solo mode with few changes that doesn’t severely hurt gameplay experience. Plus it feels awesome to defeat the monsters and save villagers on your own. There aren’t any problems I can think of with the game except maybe the villagers. I really like the villagers in the game, but the issue can be that when they are played they always spawned at the same location. Often locations fit from which they spawn, but the more you play the more you remember the locations they spawn in. Thus you can prepare when they are played. Great for players but doesn’t offer much variety. Only suggestion I can think of to remedy this is dice (any kind) that equals the number of locations on the board each being assigned a number. That way the villagers can spawn in different locations. While playing the game, I have thought of another difficulty setting you can play which I call “Van Helsing.” The maximum difficulty is 4 monsters but instead add a 5th, 6th, or all 7 of the monsters. Game plays normally with these differences: 1.Do 2 rounds with the monster deck 2. If any villagers die in the 1st round and are drawn again in the 2nd round, do not play them on the board. Instead place 2 items instead of the normal 3 from villager events. 3. For 2-5 players: start with 4 (maybe 5) items in your inventory so players don’t get killed easily by one or more monsters at the start of the game. Solo: start with no items. I did actually do this solo with all monsters and manage to win. Not sure how great this would be for 2-5 players but it might work. Give this a try if you like. Otherwise, Horrified is great to have if you like co-op, Pandemic, and horror like games and would be great to play during the Halloween season.

Super enjoyable, and the components are so nice looking (minus the monster figures which could be a lot better quality). Wish the component organizer was better, but I solved that myself. This game is easy to learn and to teach, and because there are different monsters, different characters, and you can use different numbers of monsters, there is really high replayability. As a cooperative game, there’s a lot of communication with everyone else and it still feels competitive because you’re trying to beat the monsters in time. I had expected the game to be dark because of the title and theme, but it really isn’t. The first time I played it with a friend, she immediately went home and bought it herself. Most people will play two games straight of this when they first learn, that’s how much people love this game.