Monster Slaughter

Should this hit the table?

Quick read before the metadata.

Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high interaction frequency, but low emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 2.8

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high interaction frequency, but low emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

Monster Slaughter has a high variability gameboard, offering different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, enhancing replay value. The game provides deep strategic possibilities and room for players to improve their tactics over time. The player interaction score is good. The game scales well with different numbers of players without compromising its appeal or balance. It has a moderate easiness to learn, allowing players to delve into its depth. Overall, Monster Slaughter has a strong replayability score of 7.95 out of 10.

Luck profile

Monster Slaughter has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. While players have some ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning, luck still plays a significant role. The game is a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with neither element dominating the outcome.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

Description from the publisher: Flip the script on 80’s horror movies with Monster Slaughter! This time, it’s your turn to hunt down and slay those insufferable teenagers who took refuge in an abandoned cabin in the woods. As the head of a family of monsters, you’ll have to carefully select in which order you’ll eliminate your victims… and then begin the slaughter! Monster Slaughter is a tactical game inspired by horror movie classics, where each players takes control of a family of three monsters: father, mother and child, each with their own stats and family power. Their objective is to scour the cabin looking for five guests, find their hiding spot and “take care” of them! Each victim hides in a pile of cards that monsters must search through to find them, gathering items and traps as they do. Once revealed, a guest’s miniature is put on the board and can be attacked! However, each player has secretly set a killing order for these guests, and killing them in order is worth more points. They can use their item cards to defend the guests against other monsters or scare the victims away to other rooms, so the guests die in a more favorable order! Monster Slaughter also comes with a scenario book, giving new objectives and special rules to make each moonless night a new experience.

Mechanism

3

Action Points Dice Rolling Variable Player Powers

Family

6

Components: Dice with Icons Components: Game Box Used In Play Components: Miniatures Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Movies: Horror Movies Theme: Retro

Type

1

Thematic

Media

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