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2019 Ranked #9,955

Ghostbusters: Blackout

A cooperative ghostbusting game has players allocate dice to move through New York, capture escaped ghosts, and upgrade equipment. Chaos from the blackout keeps growing, so the team must protect the city before it collapses.

Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme Cooperative Game Creatures: Ghosts

Players

1-4

Play time

30-45 min

Age

12+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

7.32

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

After a major power outage struck New York, the Ghostbusters must set out to capture all the ghost escaping from their containment unit.

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After a major power outage struck New York, the Ghostbusters must set out to capture all the ghost escaping from their containment unit. With the whole city suffering from a blackout and an onslaught of ghost rampaging around, it’s up to the Ghostbusters to quell the chaos and get those ghosts busted! Ghostbusters: Blackout is a fully co-operative board game for 2-4 players. In it, players roll dice and allocate them to move around the city, capture ghosts, and buy upgrades for their ghost-busting tech, all while trying to keep the city from collapsing from the ensuing chaos! —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1
Play time
30–45 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.0/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Jon Cohn

Artists

1
Dan Schoening

Publishers

1
IDW Games

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