Featured Game (Halloween Edition): Mysterium

Featured Halloween Game: Mysterium

 

Halloween is upon us yet again! For someone who’s such a wimp, I love playing and talking about games that could cause me to have nightmares. With a huge variety of eerie or horror themed games available, tabletop games are a fun way to celebrate Halloween with a group of friends. This article features a beautifully spooky game: Mysterium.

Think Clue meets Dixit. This cooperative game focuses on solving an old murder mystery by deducing who is the murderer, how the deed was was done and where the slaughter took place. Sounds like Clue, right? The twist is one of the players acts as a ghost helping the other players who are spirit mediums. The ghost is the one who knows the answers but can only communicate by giving the mediums visions (picture cards).

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In front of the mediums are a roster of suspects, possible locations and potential murder weapons. The ghost has the task of giving each medium a different vision of who, what and where the murder took place. Once each medium guesses all three aspects of their own vision correctly, the ghost gives one final shared vision to all the mediums to lead them to choose the true scenario (only the ghost knows). Throughout the game, mediums can discuss with each other because if any of them fail at guessing their scenario by the end of the eighth round, everybody loses. There is a huge advantage to brainstorming however, with discussion comes debate. Each medium has tokens with checkmarks or x’s on them which they can put down in support or against each other’s choices. Once the ghost reveals if the choices were correct or incorrect, if your vote was proper, you go up on what is called the “clairvoyance” track. The higher the clairvoyance, the more you can see of the final vision.

In the final round when the ghost reveals the final vision cards, each medium must secretly place a guess of which of all the scenarios contain the true culprit, place and weapon. If the majority of the mediums choose the correct one, everybody wins. The ghost can finally rest in peace. If not… well, nobody wants to know what happens when a ghost is not avenged properly.

It’s honestly a really fun game that people of different gaming backgrounds can get in to. I highly recommend this game. There’s actually an official released soundtrack to aid the mood. I encourage you and your friends to play along side the music to really set the ambiance. That’s enough from me. Happy Halloween to all you ghouls, ghosts, and humans too!

Featured game: Survive! Escape from Atlantis

I’ve only discovered this game within the past couple of months yet it became a fast favourite in our household. Survive! Escape from Atlantis is a cut-throat game made for competitive, ruthless gamers like me. Some revisions of the games have been made since its debut in 1982 including game title and rule variations. Although I’ve played tabletop games for years now, I’m still surprised I haven’t come across it earlier. Let me explain why this game is awesome and is still kicking around 32 years after its release.

Survive! Escape from Atlantis' 30th Anniversary edition released 2 years ago
Survive! Escape from Atlantis’ 30th Anniversary edition released 2 years ago

Residents of Atlantis must flee the slowly sinking island. There are some boats available to take you to safety but watch out! There are horrors lurking in the ocean. Sharks that will swallow up any swimmers around, whales that’ll smash through boats in its path, and sea monsters who don’t discriminate: destroy all. Your goal is to save your people and send the other players’ people to a watery grave.

Survive! Escape from Atlantis board setup
Survive! Escape from Atlantis board before we sink this island. During setup, players alternate putting down their players on island tokens and boats in the water.

To make things more interesting, your citizens of Atlantis are weighted. This means your people, if saved, can be worth between 1 to 6 points depending on what number is etched at the bottom of the meeple. Only during the setup and tallying points phase are you allowed so turn over the meeple tokens and see their points value. It’s easy at first to try to remember where you placed each person, but partway though, pure chaos ensues and makes it a lot more difficult to memorize who is more important to save.
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This game is loads of fun and easy learn (although you might want to think twice on how vicious and aggressive to play with younger players)! It’s a great selection for those who want a fairly fast game and/or want to sit down with some buddies and some drinks. I know every time I play, bursts of laughter are common when we try to redirect sea creatures towards other players.

Survive! Escape from Atlantis: a game where mercy is futile and causing mass genocide is encourage. Pick up this must have game and its expansions at our store!

Survive! gameplay: end of game
Game over, man! Game over! Green just got decimated. Game end is determined when the volcano tile is revealed. Only people who are safe on a surrounded island are worth points