Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Become one of twenty wildly asymmetric movie monsters, roam an ’80s cinema, play action cards, spook and devour guests, collect tickets, and become the festival’s greatest terror.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Set Collection
Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Area Movement
Move pieces between connected regions rather than along individual spaces.
Variable Player Powers
Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Solo / Solitaire Game
Provide rules and objectives designed for a single player.
Read the full game description
Spooktacular begins on Halloween night in 1986 when lightning tears through an all-night film festival and releases a century of cinematic monsters from the screen. Each player controls one of twenty distinct monsters, from accessible terrors to advanced oddities, with a dedicated board that changes the order, rules, and rewards of the same core actions. Cards let monsters move through theater rooms, spook guests into adjacent spaces, devour victims for colored sets, and trigger special powers. Guest placement, door connections, tickets, and other monsters create a busy shared board, while simple turn structure keeps the chaos moving. Solo play supplies its own automated menace. Reaching fifty points or exhausting the ticket supply triggers the finale; after tickets are scored, the monster with the highest total becomes the film festival’s unforgettable star.
