The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Board Game Review
boardgamequest.comThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a cult classic horror movie and the folks at Trick or Treat Studios have captured the frantic action of the movie in a push-your-luck movement game that will have you craving some good BBQ. It follows the plot of the classic 1974 move of the same name.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a cooperative board game for 1-4 players that takes about 45-60 minutes. It can be played either solo, cooperatively, or semi-coop.
Each player takes control of a doomed character from the movie, each with a small perk that differentiates them from the others. Depending on the number of players you must set out from the van on the roadside into the territory of the Slaughter family to find a set of keys and gas to escape. The only problem is Leatherface chasing you down and you have no idea where to look.
The movable spaces on the board each have a facedown token. As you move across the board you reveal the tokens and place them in the BBQ tray. At the end of the turn, those tray tokens are dumped into the draw bag to be “in play” for the next turn.
Each player’s turn is broken down into a few phases. Players start by moving their character up to two spaces, picking up any facedown tokens. Then players can choose to push other players or enemies into a space if they are adjacent. The draw phase occurs after the push phase, allowing you to draw tokens from the bag allowing for anything from extra actions to empowering Leatherface and having him move towards the closest character. The last phase is clean up, where those explored tokens are dropped into the draw bag.
During each draw phase if players ever draw three or more of the same type of token (besides bonus actions) they must stop drawing from the bag immediately then resolve the tokens drawn. This can result in Leatherface becoming more dangerous and faster, the Slaughter family characters spawning onto the board, as well as characters seeing face down search cards and tokens.
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