The Hunger Review

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We review The Hunger, a deck building game published by Renegade Games. In The Hunger, players are vampires leaving the castle to consume humans, however they must try and make it back before sunrise.

The life of vampires has really been romanticized by Hollywood. Glittery skin, perfect hair, fancy weddings. You know what doesn’t get enough air time? Indigestion. Stomach aches. Lethargy. Eating humans isn’t just all fun and games, it can really mess with your energy levels if you aren’t tracking your macros.

And that, my friends, is basically The Hunger. You are a vampire on the hunt. You want to get full and get back to your castle before the sun comes up. But with every hunted human you devour you lose a bit of pep in your glittery step.

The Hunger is a deck-building game played over 15 rounds. Each round you’ll draw three cards from your deck, determine your speed for the round, and move around the board and grab a human snack. Humans will go into your deck, giving you victory points. But at the end of 15 rounds, you better be back in the castle or you will burn up in the sunlight and definitely not win.

At the beginning of the game, your deck consists only of vampire ability cards. These all add to your speed for the round and some will allow you to discard and draw additional cards. Once you determine your speed you can move up to that number of spaces. Unlike some other deck-building games with maps… you can choose a new direction every round. So if you feel like going away from the castle and venturing out, you can. Next round you can head back out. The farther from the castle you get you’ll earn bonus points for your hunts and the end of the map has a labyrinth with very powerful rose cards. But you can also