Halloween is the perfect time to gather friends and family for a spooky night of horror games. Whether you're into strategy, deduction, or pure Halloween fun, there's a game for everyone.
Here's a list of thrilling games to consider for your next Halloween gathering, complete with details on gameplay, age ratings, and player counts.
Patchwork Halloween Edition
What is Patchwork Halloween Edition?
Patchwork is a strategic two-player horror board game that involves building a patchwork quilt from Tetris-like pieces. In the Halloween Edition, the theme is spookier, with pumpkin patches, ghosts, and eerie colours.
Players take turns choosing pieces to fit into their quilt while managing their button economy to score points. The goal is to fill as much of your board as possible with no empty spaces.
How to play Patchwork Halloween Edition
Players use buttons as currency to buy various quilt pieces and attempt to fit them perfectly on their board.
Careful placement is key, and players must strategise to avoid leaving gaps. The Halloween twist adds Halloween-themed aesthetics but retains the classic mechanics.
Age Rating: 8+
Players: 2
Bananagrams Halloween Party
What is Bananagrams Halloween Party?
This Halloween-themed version of Bananagrams takes the fast-paced word-building game and gives it a spooky twist.
Players race to create their word grids using letter tiles. The Halloween Party edition adds fun, ghoulish tiles to the mix, making the game perfect for those who love a spooky twist.
Bananagram rules - Halloween Party Edition
Each player starts with a set of tiles and races against the clock to form interconnected words on their board.
The first player to use all their tiles wins the game. Special tiles in this edition add Halloween-themed challenges and powers.
Age Rating: 7+
Players: 1-8
Halloween: A Hidden Movement Game
What is Halloween: A Hidden Movement Game?
Inspired by classic horror movies, this game pits one player as the infamous killer (like Michael Myers) against others who play as survivors trying to escape or outwit the villain.
Using hidden movement mechanics, the killer moves secretly while survivors must deduce the location and work together to survive.
How to play Halloween: A Hidden Movement Game
The horror game board represents a neighbourhood, and the killer moves secretly, marked on a separate sheet.
Survivors cooperate to track the killer’s movements, complete objectives, and ultimately escape the terror. The tension builds as players get closer to uncovering the killer’s location—or fall victim to his attacks.
Age Rating: 14+
Players: 2-5
Tricks and Treats
What is Tricks and Treats?
This family-friendly horror board game is a fast-paced card game where players act as trick-or-treaters visiting houses in the neighbourhood.
Some cards represent treats, while others are tricks, adding an element of surprise. Players must strategically collect as many treats as possible while avoiding tricks to win.
How to play Tricks and Treats
Players play cards from their hand on each turn representing treats or tricks. Each player can visit a house, but some houses might give more treats, while others are traps.
The goal is to have the most treats by the end of the game.
Age Rating: 8+
Players: 2-6
BOOoop
What is BOOoop (Halloween version)?
This is a Halloween board game adaptation of the popular abstract strategy game Boop, where players place ghostly kittens on a bed and try to "boop" their opponent’s kittens off the board.
The spooky version uses ghostly pieces, perfect for Halloween nights.
How to play BOOoop
Players take turns placing ghost kittens on the bed, trying to line them up while booping the opponent's kittens away from key spots.
The goal is to get three kittens in a row to turn them into full-grown ghost cats and take home victory.
Age Rating: 8+
Players: 2
Nightmare Before Christmas Jack vs. Oogie Boogie Checkers
What is Nightmare Before Christmas Jack vs. Oogie Boogie Checkers?
A spooky twist on the classic game of checkers, this edition brings the battle between Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie to life.
Players face off in a duel for control using themed pieces in a ghoulish checkerboard.
How to play Nightmare Before Christmas Jack vs. Oogie Boogie Checkers?
The gameplay follows standard checker rules but with special pieces representing Jack’s army of skeletons and Oogie’s minions.
Themed graphics and artwork bring the world of The Nightmare Before Christmas to your table.
Age Rating: 6+
Players: 2
Blood on the Clocktower
What is Blood on the Clocktower UK?
Blood on the Clocktower game is a social deduction game perfect for fans of horror mysteries.
Set in a dark village plagued by a demon, players take on roles either as townsfolk, trying to uncover the evil, or as the demon’s minions, trying to deceive and destroy the town.
How to play Blood on the Clocktower board game
Each player gets a secret role, and the horror board game progresses through day and night phases. Players debate, vote, and try to expose the demon, but death is not the end. Even deceased players continue to have influence, keeping everyone engaged throughout.
Age Rating: 15+
Players: 5-20
Arkham Horror Third Edition
What is Arkham Horror (Third Edition)?
Arkham Horror is a cooperative horror board game steeped in Lovecraftian horror. Players take on the role of investigators in the 1920s trying to prevent an ancient evil from awakening and wreaking havoc.
This game is highly thematic and challenging, with plenty of strategy and story-driven elements.
How to play Arkham Horror Third Edition
Players work together to explore the town of Arkham, collect clues, and battle eldritch monsters. Each player has unique skills and items to help them, and events unfold as they make choices that shape the narrative. The clock is ticking as doom creeps closer, requiring teamwork and smart decisions to survive.
Arkham Horror Third Edition expansions are also available for this game, meaning that no horror experience will be the same for this board game.
Age Rating: 14+
Players: 1-6
Scarily good horror board games
Whether it’s for this Halloween or you just fancy a spooky night in, get into the spirit by trying out one of these hauntingly fun horror board games.
From solving Lovecraftian mysteries, and escaping a killer, to simply building a quilt, there's a horror game on this list for everyone—just in time for the most chilling night of the year!
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