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Damnation: The Gothic Game is a 2 - 8 player horror board game with one simple goal - to be the last surviving player. This purchase includes a copy of the Night of the Vampire expansion for Damnation: The Gothic Game.
Take on the role of iconic Victorian era villains as you explore a cursed castle, seeking deadly weapons and forbidden powers with which to slay your opponents and claim victory by becoming the final survivor.
Ransack rooms to draw cards that along with your Villain’s unique Talents allow you to avoid misfortune and punish those who would stand against you.
Position yourself next to an opponent to claim the dreaded ‘Power of Adjacency,’ then laugh as you steer them into the castle’s many fiendish traps and hazards.
Slay other Villains to claim their souls, spent at The Dark Tower for monstrously powerful rewards.
In death become a ghost, gambling on the fate of the castle and its occupants for a chance to return to life and claim revenge! Or adopt a very different form as your visit The Vault to become The Vampire, an agile and deadly creature with only a few weaknesses hidden within the castle.
Will you survive the night?
—description from the publisher
- Very fun
- Cool artwork
- The vampire expansion adds value with cards, characters, and abilities
- Resurrection mechanic is fun
- Takes itself lightly, not a Euro game
- Might not be for everyone
- Unbalanced
- Can be perceived as 'par cheesy'
- Deathmatch, survival, dark fantasy
- Gothic
- Chaos Chaos Chaos
- Amrit
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Movement — Players move around rooms on a board.
- Card Drafting — Players pick up cards when they go into rooms.
- Player elimination with comeback — Players can be eliminated but also resurrect and return to the game.
- Push Your Luck — The mechanic for resurrection involves drawing cards and 'pushing your luck'.
- rolling dice — Described as a 'rolling clue game' and a 'rolling move game'.
- Take That — Players can control opponents' movement and run them into traps.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The printer said that we never even came close to doing any sizable print run of anything
- nothing's left it's all gone it's never coming out
- I hate it's it's goofy fun
- On certain numbers you pass a card to the left
- It's a T-Rex on a surfboard
- The artwork was changed from the original version
- They did not get done fast enough
- They did not get on a boat fast enough
- Foundations of Rome in a city instead of in
- big fun
- It has a lot of rules
- you got to really pay attention
- Orlons the plague
- The plague
- I haven't played or so long nearby I was thinking about that the other remember I enjoyed it
- The original artwork is described as 'very cute.'
- It's a Texas hold 'em variant.
- Players 'do rock paper scissors with your powers.'
- The game is described as 'goofy fun.'
- The redesigned artwork is not preferred by some.
- The creator walked away and hasn't communicated them for too long.
- The effectiveness and morality of capital punishment compared to life imprisonment.
- Concerns about executing innocent individuals.
- The role of race in the application of the death penalty.
- Concerns about driving under the influence of cannabis.