The Best Spooky Board Games to Play on Halloween
There’s something about autumn with the crisp cool air that invokes a certain feeling. And no, it’s not the Pumpkin Spice everything that invades society like a cucurbits and cinnamon-inspired plague. Rather it’s as the days get shorter and leaves change color and fall from the trees, there’s a sense of decay and death. Winds softly rustling the leaves make you shudder from something unseen as well as the subtle chill as you glance over your shoulder feeling watched. It’s one of my favorite times of the year. It’s…
“Spoopy season!” Anna Maria joyfully declared.
*Sigh* It’s not spoopy season. It’s spooky season for those who don’t need everything cute and adorable as I cross Ghosts Love Candy Too off this list to find something slightly more creepy.
Below, you’ll find the horrific games the Board Game Quest team has pulled from dark pits of despair. Horror, monsters, and parties (?) await those brave enough to handle the spookiest (and probably spoopiest) games of the season.
Chosen by Marcus:
Sometimes, the simple things in life are the best. This was a family game from the 80’s. The premise is simple: a party is being held at a mansion, but that mansion is haunted by a ghost named Hugo! Once Hugo arrives at the party, the guests need to scatter into the various rooms—but you can only move one direction down the circular hallway and only one guest can occupy each room! It is a very light game, but it has a charm about it. Hugo always moves three spaces when his movement icon is rolled on the dice, so it’s like a steady drumbeat as you’re trying to get away from him “Ah, one, two, three. . .”. It gets brought out every year for Halloween and even throughout the rest of the year.
Chosen by Austin:
Final Girl feels a bit like the low-hanging fruit here, but it does an incredible job of evoking its horror-movie roots. Horror as a genre tends to focus on isolation, loneliness, and paranoia, which makes a solo-only game like Final Girl work so well; there is no one else
