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Horror Board Games of the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and 20s
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Horror Board Games, 1980-1989
Horror Board Games, 1990-1999
Horror Board Games, 2000-2009
Horror Board Games, 2010-2019
Horror Board Games, 2020-2029
Horror Board Games, 1980-1989
Players take on the roles of Paranormal Investigators, hired to find out if the legend of the haunted GHOST CASTLE is true, and to record anything 'strange' going on inside.
Buffalo Games - Escape from Ghost Castle
Players moved around a board; if they woke Dracula, they put their finger in his mouth, and he might leave a red mark (fake blood) on it, sending them back to the start.
I Vant to Bite Your Finger Dracula Board Game 1981 Hasbro ..
DOORWAYS TO HORROR is a 1986 Pressman VCR board game where players use dice to fast-forward a VHS tape, encountering classic horror film clips (vampires, werewolves, etc.) to cast spells, capture monsters, and earn Gold Certificates, aiming to be the...
Doorways to Horror | Board Game
In HORROR HOUSE, 2-4 players race to escape a haunted mansion filled with 45 classic monsters, using luck-based mechanics like a spinner and a physical electronic "Death Head" with slots to determine battle outcomes (scream = win, laugh = lose) to co...
Horror House | Board Game
Gee, what do you THINK this one is about?
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Game (1987)
One of the most CLASSIC 80s horror board games! Players attempted to escape a haunted mansion by navigating 12 haunted rooms and avoiding misfortune.
Shrieks & Creaks | Board Game
Make your way toward the castle where the Vampire is holding a princess captive!
The Vampire Game | Board Game
You play as an explorer, following the footsteps of bigfoot, in the hope of finding the legendary beast.
Big Foot | Board Game
This gruesome title has players plot their escape from Dracula’s castle. However, escape could be tricky as Dracula is near! With every move a player makes, Dracula moves too.
Game of Dracula | Board Game
Originally published in 1987, this game is set in 1926 in Lovecraft’s fictional city of Arkham. Each player is an investigator, represented by a character card with several attributes. As a game plays out, gates to other worlds open, represented by t...
Arkham Horror | Board Game
Horror Board Games, 1990-1999
13 Dead End Drive is a suspenseful, bluffing board game where 12 heirs vie to inherit Aunt Agatha's fortune by eliminating rivals in her mansion using hidden traps like falling chandeliers and trapdoors, all while trying to keep their own identity se...
13 Dead End Drive (1993) - Board Game
Mr and Mrs Morbid are throwing their annual Halloween party. As usual they've invited some very strange guests... and you've been given the job of answering the door to them all! You've got to keep track of how many peculiar characters arrive and lea...
99 Nightmare Street | Board Game
The aim of Atmosfear is to collect a key from each of the six regions of the board before heading to the Well of Fears in the center and attempting to draw your fear from among those of your opponents in order to win the game. This must be done befor...
Atmosfear
Have you ever wondered what ghosts do in a haunted mansion? Play Ghost Hunters and use your brain to find out! Light up all of the ghosts in each challenge by placing all the flashlight puzzle pieces correctly. With 60 challenges it’s a scary good ti...
Ghost Hunters Logic Puzzle Game
In Goosebumps the Board Game everyone plays as their favorite monster. Players battle each other in a frantic race along a trail of mayhem and manuscripts, trying to reach the typewriter before it sends them away for good! Only the first monster to r...
Goosebumps The Game
The objective of this Roll and Move game is to be the first player to exit the graveyard. The mummy and the skeleton may send players flying off the board if they land on their spaces. Players can turn the Dial-of-Doom to trigger surprises.
Grave Danger | Board Game
Nightmare/Atmosfear is a board game controlled by a video tape. It is a race against time and the game's host, The Gatekeeper. The aim of the game is to collect 6 of your character's keys and then race to the center of the board; The Nightmare Square...
Nightmare: The Video Board-game by NECA
The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow is a social deduction party game where players are secretly assigned roles as either innocent Villagers or cunning Werewolves, aiming to either lynch all monsters or eliminate the humans through day/night cycles of d...
The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow | Board Game
Monster mash is an interesting version of the game Snap! The game comes with a “monster-maker” machine, which would randomly create a monster using three rotating platforms. There are27 different combinations and 27 cards that you can lay out in fron...
Monster Mash | Board Game
Minion Hunter is a cooperative sci-fi/horror board game from 1992, set in the Dark Conspiracy universe, where 1-6 players team up to stop alien/supernatural factions (like Morlocks, ETs, Nukids) from taking over America by completing dark plots, usin...
Minion Hunter | Board Game
Horror Board Games, 2000-2009
ZOMBIES!!! 5 is an expansion on the base ZOMBIES!!! game. Players explore the modular campus, fight zombies, and race to the helipad, using improvised weapons and school supplies to survive, adding a fun, educational twist to the classic zombie survi...
Zombies!!! 5 - School's Out Forever
All Things Zombie: Haven (part of the larger All Things Zombie series by Ed Teixeira) is a hex-map, scenario-driven board game about post-apocalyptic survival against hordes of the undead and other dangerous human factions, blending RPG elements with...
All Things Zombie: Haven | Board Game
Arkham Horror is a cooperative board game series (especially 3rd Edition) where 1-6 players become investigators in H.P. Lovecraft's eerie Arkham, working together to solve mysteries, fight eldritch monsters, gather clues, and seal Ancient Ones befor...
Arkham Horror | Board Game
Deadlands is a popular "Weird West" tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) and board game setting blending Old West frontier life with horror, steampunk, and fantasy, centered on a supernatural event that unleashed ghosts, monsters, and a powerful fuel ca...
Deadlands: The Battle for Slaughter Gulch (2009)
In this Print and Play game, each player takes on the identity of one of the 12 possible victims. One player will secretly play as the Slasher and has 8 rounds to kill all of the characters controlled by the other players. The rest of the players mus...
Night of the Slashers
Posthumous Z is a team-based, Ameritrash zombie survival horror board game for 2-10 players where one side controls cliché human survivors trying to escape a town, while the other controls increasingly cunning zombies, using dice, modular boards, and...
PostHumous Z | Board Game
Secret Weapons of the Third Reich, is a strategic board game for 1-4 players about Nazi super-science, focusing on developing flying saucers and atomic bombs from a German perspective, blending cooperation, worker placement, and alternate history.
Secret Weapons of the Third Reich (2015)
Zombiegeddon is a 2-4 player, fast-paced, perfect-information strategy game by Reiner Knizia where players race to collect supplies and weapons before the zombie apocalypse fully hits, then try to survive and score points by delivering goods to shelt...
Zombiegeddon | Board Game
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a suspenseful horror board game where 3-6 players explore a haunted mansion, building its layout as they go, until a "haunt" triggers, revealing one player as a traitor with secret objectives, turning the game from co...
Betrayal at House on the Hill | Board Game
Vampire Hunter (Milton Bradley, 2002) is a classic, simple board game where 2-4 players race to find and defeat Dracula in his castle before his escape ship leaves, using items like garlic, swords, and stakes, all while battling monsters and experien...
None Vampire Hunter : Toys & Games
Horror Board Games, 2010-2019
Arkham Ritual is a fast-paced, Lovecraftian social deduction card game where 3-7 players pretend to be journalists investigating a cult, trying to survive by getting rid of sanity-draining red cards and keeping unique blue artifacts, all while never ...
Arkham Ritual | Board Game
City of Horror is a social, negotiation-heavy zombie survival board game for 3-6 players where you manage characters, form shaky alliances, scavenge for items (like food & antidotes), and betray others to score victory points by surviving the zom...
City of Horror | Board Game
Crimson Woods is a semi-cooperative, 80s slasher-themed survival horror board game where 2-6 players, as camp counselors, explore a modular camp to find items and keys to escape a killer stalking them, blending exploration, resource gathering, and co...
Crimson Woods | Board Game
Cthulhu Gloom is a standalone card game where players guide their Lovecraftian characters to misery and death, while keeping opponents' characters happy, using transparent plastic cards to stack events like "Fought Something Formless" or "Learned Loa...
Cthulhu Gloom | Board Game
Dark Minions is a competitive fantasy dice game for 3-5 players where you lead evil forces to destroy towns, conquer towers, and gain Victory Points (VP), leveling up your powers by using dice results to deploy minions, claim tower sets (white, gray,...
Dark Minions | Board Game
Eldritch Horror is a cooperative board game where 1-8 players become globetrotting investigators in the 1920s, working together to solve mysteries, fight monsters, and gather clues to stop an otherworldly Ancient One from destroying the world, featur...
Eldritch Horror
Fury of Dracula is a 1-vs-many hidden movement board game of deduction and gothic horror where one player as Count Dracula spreads vampirism across 19th-century Europe, while 2-4 players as Mina Harker and companions hunt him down. Dracula moves secr...
Fury of Dracula (Third/Fourth Edition) (2015)
Horrified is a cooperative board game where 1-5 players become unique heroes, working together to save a village from classic monsters (like Dracula, Frankenstein, Bigfoot, Cthulhu, etc., depending on the version) by completing unique, puzzle-like ta...
Horrified: Universal Monsters | Strategy Games
Last Friday is a horror-themed, hidden movement board game for 2-6 players where one person is a slasher maniac and the others are counselors at Camp Apache, played over four chapters with shifting goals: the maniac hunts campers (Chapters 1 & 3)...
Last Friday | Board Game
Lovecraft Letter (or Arkham Horror: Lovecraft Letter) is a quick, deduction-based card game for 2-6 players, using the classic Love Letter system but with a terrifying Cthulhu Mythos theme where you investigate a missing relative's mystery in Arkham,...
Lovecraft Letter | Board Game
Horror Board Games, 2020-2029
9th Circle is an area control board game where 2-5 Demon Lords secretly send minions to control realms in Hell to gain favor with Malacoda, aiming to reach 25 favor points by controlling regions, sacrificing minions, or completing specific actions, a...
9th Circle | Board Game
1978: The Night THEY Came Home is a 1-2 player horror tabletop game, inspired by '70s & '80s slasher films like Halloween, where one player is a supernatural Slasher and the other a resourceful Survivor, using poker cards and dual rulebooks to bu...
1978: The Night They Came Home by World Champ Game Co.
B.E.L.O.W.: The Asylum is a cooperative, scenario-based action-horror board game from Awaken Realms where 1-4 players, as elite B.E.L.O.W. agents (Bureau of Exorcism, Liminality, and Occult Warfare), explore a haunted asylum split between two paralle...
B.E.L.O.W.: The Asylum by Awaken Realms
Blood Rage is a Viking-themed area control board game for 2-4 players (with an expansion for 5) where you lead a clan of mythological Norse warriors seeking glory as Ragnarök consumes the world, featuring card drafting, tactical combat, and fulfillin...
Blood Rage | Board Game
Bloodwork is a cooperative, dark fantasy RPG board game for 1-4 players, focused on mercenary survival in a world of divine betrayal, featuring tactical combat, deep character progression (skills, gear, leveling), and a narrative campaign with choice...
Bloodwork by I Demo Games
Escape the Dark Forest is a cooperative, story-driven, dice-based board game for 1-4 players where you play as woodland creatures trying to escape a haunted forest after escaping a dark castle, continuing the narrative from Escape the Dark Castle, wi...
Escape the Dark Forest
Hunt A Killer: Lakeside Slaughter: The Last Vacation is a cooperative, narrative-driven murder mystery game where players become detectives to solve the murder of Monica Bosley, found dead at a lakeside rental, with evidence including autopsy reports...
Lakeside Slaughter: The Last Vacation
Phasmophobia: The Board Game adapts the popular ghost-hunting video game into a cooperative tabletop experience where 1-4 players use equipment (like EMF readers, spirit boxes) to identify ghost types in customizable haunted locations, managing sanit...
Phasmophobia: The Board Game
Sinister is a card-drafting Social Intrigue game of Catholic Horror with a shifting betrayer where the eliminated players stay in the game to take revenge. Each round, players will be dealt Soul cards which tell them if they are possessed, or must re...
Sinister | Board Game
Vampire Lords is a 15th-century Romania-set strategy board game blending area control and deck-building, where players embody unique vampire lords (like Vlad Dracula) vying for control by commanding mortal and undead armies, conquering towns, and usi...
Vampire Lords - by Couple of Games