Players in the cellar can reenter the hallway fray and the game continues until a player hits 46 penalty points – which can happen quickly with larger player counts and possible Hugo rolls every turn gobbling up hallway spaces. Rooms are a pawn’s only safe haven from Hugo and cellar banishment. Hallway Hugo banishes any player pieces he lands on or passed down to the cellar, which nets players penalty points. Once he fully ascends to Hallway Hugo status, players can enter rooms by exact count on die rolls, and eject anyone in the room to the immediate hallway space, where they are open season for Hugo.
If you roll Ghostface (on the die), Hugo moves three spaces.Ĭellar Hugo bars players from entering rooms. Each turn players roll the die and move one of their pawns the corresponding number of spaces clockwise around the hallway.
Players start in hallway spaces with their player pawns, one per space. In all versions the board depicts an overhead view of the castle in three “rings.” The outer ring is a series of 12 accessible rooms, the middle ring is a series of gallery (aka hallway) spaces, and the center is the cellar and stairs leading up to the gallery spaces. And the goal isn’t to bust ghosts, but to avoid a largely benevolent one named Hugo. Thankfully the core gameplay remains the same: a fast and fun roll-and-move game of tag. Midnight Party (designed by Wolfgang Kramer) has gone through more title incarnations than a focused, non-terminal, repeating phantasm (or a class-five full-roaming vapor): Ghost Party, Hugo, and most recently Escape from the Hidden Castle (which, quite frankly, buries the lede). It also doesn’t require any extra purchases or exclusives, it’s standalone. I’m a huge fan of this and I think it definitely carries the theme of the movie well. I played with my kids who are six and nine and they loved boarding up the house, protecting each other from the zombies, and gathering up all the weapons etc. It’s not too simplified, but doesn’t have some of the Noise mechanics etc that make main Zombicide games a little more dense. NotLDZ works great for an easy pick-up-and-play board game with family / friends who may not usually do board games. I had bought and played Zombicide 1st Edition when it came out but got swamped with all the extras and exclusives and eventually sold mine. Michael “Mugginns” OĪs a superfan of the Romero zombie series, I watched the CMON Kickstarter for Night of the Living Dead Zombicide with huge interest.
So with Halloween fast approaching, we at the Goonhammer offices figured we’d take a few minutes to talk about some of our favorite horror games, regardless of format. From the general sense of dread to the costumes and the fun of horror games and entertainment, we’re big fans of the spooky season.
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