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The Possession

A wonderful weekend in a wood cabin with friends to relax, with drinks and food, a party...and blood! An evil as old as time has awoken and it is possessing you all by taking advance of your weakness. If nobody finds the book of the dead and destroys it, this will be your last ni...

Players

3-5

Time

?-?

Age

14+

Weight

2

Rating

6.18

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The Possession has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players must frequently pay attention to and react to each other's strategies and turns. However, there is less emphasis on cooperation in the game.

Teach 2.4

Teaching signal

Replay 4.1

High replayability

Interaction 3.6

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.4

Scales well

Strategy 4.7

Deep strategy

Control 2.7

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

The Possession has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players must frequently pay attention to and react to each other's strategies and turns. However, there is less emphasis on cooperation in the game.

Replay value

The Possession has a high replayability score due to its strong variability in gameplay, deep strategic possibilities, and adaptability to different player counts. The presence of expansions adds further content and enhances the overall replay value.

Luck profile

The Possession has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements like dice rolls or card draws have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. Players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.

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A wonderful weekend in a wood cabin with friends to relax, with drinks and food, a party...and blood! An evil as old as time has awoken and it is possessing you all by taking advance of your weakness. If nobody finds the book of the dead and destroys it, this will be your last night as humans. The Possession is a game for 3 to 5 players in which time is against them. The evil is stalking you and each round the players could be possessed by it, and becoming one of the thirsty blood demons looking for living souls, the other players' souls! At the beginning of a round, all players roll a die: the more wounds you have, the more easily you become a possessed. Then players play an action card to indicate how many actions they can play and how much they risk suffering an evil event. This risk is higher in the cards that give more actions. When a player finds enough pages from the book of the dead and burns them in an altar, before the evil owns all players, he becomes the winner. By using the action points, players can cover the house looking for the pages as well as objects, weapons, and keys to get into the basement and attic-; they can also rest in order to get back the action cards played and heal wounds to keep alive. A possessed player must attack his friends so that the evil inside him feeds of his crime and not with his soul. He will be able to smash doors, escape for windows to get inside in other rooms and so, surprise another players. He will have more action points depending on his possessing level. The other players can attack the possessed ones. The only way to stop them is dismembering them completely — but these amputated members will be wandering around ready to claw and strangle whoever gets close enough...

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Designers

1
Óscar Arévalo

Artists

1
Víctor Pérez Corbella

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