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Herocard Nightmare box art
2007 Ranked #17,077

Herocard Nightmare

A modular horror duel game where players maneuver through a shifting nightmare and try to outlast every other dreamer. Deduction and rapid card battles unfold across an ever-changing gothic landscape, so survival depends on steering danger elsewhere.

Bluffing Deduction Modular Board Variable Player Powers

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.25/5

Rating

5.99

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

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?

Horror in a Small Town. An enchanted camera has drawn you into an ever-shifting nightmare.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Modular Board

Build the play area from interchangeable sections that vary between games.
Variable Player Powers

Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Read the full game description

Horror in a Small Town. An enchanted camera has drawn you into an ever-shifting nightmare. Your only hope of escape is to maneuver the other players to their deaths before they do the same to you! HeroCard Nightmare is a surreal psychological thriller in which the last surviving dreamer wins. Nightmare blends deductive, clue-like gameplay with fast-paced HeroCard dueling, and sets them inside a modular, ever-changing landscape of gothic horror. Nightmare is a HeroCard game, and comes complete with four HeroDecks. Nightmare does not have any expansion decks, as all four characters come complete within the Nightmare box. Nightmare is compatible with all the other HeroCard games.

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Category

3
Bluffing Deduction Horror

Mechanism

3
Hand Management Modular Board Variable Player Powers

Family

1
Game: Herocard

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–3
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

4
Nico Carroll Robert Carroll (II) Peter Hansell David Kennerly

Artists

1
Gregor Benedetti

Publishers

1
TableStar Games

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