Horrified & Alien - Rough Cuts 🪨

[@BoardGems]

Why, or why, didn't I release this closer to Hallowe'en? I'm such an idiot. 😁

[@MrVilou]

Got those 2 and I love them so much, even got the Back to the Future one with fun Mcfly picture mechanic and Delorean miniature ! (it got some "dungeon crawler in a city" vibes) The BGG community have done A LOT to improve that good Alien game, there's character elimination mode, randomiser alien moves App, even a Jonesy and Ash printed plastic figures done by some. Even without that, the fact Alien and android decks goes hardcore ("calm" cards removed to leave only big "encounters" with 3-4 morale/lose scrap items, Nest card with instant -2 morale; to simulate the end of the movie) is intense. Prospero hall was such a great compagny, such a shame all those capitalists moves cost us a great series of fun and truly dedicated movies boardgames.

[@PaulMazzoni]

Horrified is probably the cooperative game I enjoy more than any ever, but admittedly I’m not much into coop games. Horrified I played over and over when I got it. American Monsters wasn’t very good and while Greek Monsters was better than American, I still think the first one is really all you need.

[@tkzubaran]

We don't share exactly the same tastes, but I can hear you talk about games forever. It is the perfect thing to have on my second monitor while I do low cognitive load work. Cheers from Brazil!

[@torelaursen4139]

Horrified is good and definetly the best of the two. Alien is so so. I feel like they lost out quite abit when they didn't design it around character elimination. The movie is a fantastic last woman standing horror movie. Others that come close to Horrified from the same or similar designers are Jaws and Back to the future back in time.

[@kerim8666]

Things went downhill after Prospero hall and Ravensburger end their partnership (for both parties). Horrified and Villainous sequels progressively got worse: they started having glaring typos, rules ambiguities and lack of polish. I would put Alien and Gargoyle game in this camp as well. They tried to replicate the success of Horrified, but they are not good. The designer of Alien: FotM, put out a more challenging variant on BGG called the DIrector's cut, but I quickly realized that the designer was trying to fix/patch his game in real time. Too much of a hassle...

[@morkar90]

Can you do a review of Helios? I've seen it on your shelf for a while and have been very curious about it.

[@BoardGems]

Sure! Can't promise it'll be super-soon though. I already have an idea of what the next few will be. But I'll add it to the requests/suggestions list!