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2016 Ranked #3,354

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Board Game

This cooperative adventure game has heroes defend Sunnydale from vampires and demons while stopping a larger threat. Character abilities and shared resources must be coordinated before the Hellmouth can open.

Thematic Games Fantasy Horror Variable Player Powers Hand Management

Players

1-6

Play time

40-60 min

Age

13+

Complexity

2.61/5

Rating

6.79

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Board Game, you help Buffy and her friends defend the town of Sunnydale from an onslaught of vampires and demons, while ultimately attempting to foil the big bad's plot and prevent the Hellmouth from opening.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Variable Player Powers

Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Cooperative Game

Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Board Game, you help Buffy and her friends defend the town of Sunnydale from an onslaught of vampires and demons, while ultimately attempting to foil the big bad's plot and prevent the Hellmouth from opening. You have to work together, using all of your resources — including special abilities for the character that you play, whether Willow, Spike, or Buffy herself — to defend the helpless townies.

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Type

1
Thematic Games

Category

3
Fantasy Horror Movies / TV / Radio theme

Mechanism

3
Cooperative Game Hand Management Variable Player Powers

Family

2
Creatures: Vampires TV Shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1–6
Best with
1–6
Play time
40–60 min
Age
13+
Complexity
2.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

5
Josh Derksen Thomas M. Gofton Dan Hoang Aron Murch Cameron Parkinson

Artists

1
Josh Derksen

Publishers

2
Gen-X Games Jasco Games

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