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London Dread is a co-operative game set in Victorian England. Players take on the role of investigators trying to uncover plots on the way to confronting a story specific finale.
The game is gritty and thematic, featuring a series of dark events and story lines (such as the appearance of a caped killer on the streets of London) with a hint of the supernatural.
The game is broken into a series of stories, usually played over the course of 2 chapters, in which players alternately participate in a timed planning phase where various obstacles and plots are uncovered and then an untimed story phase where players resolve the effects of their planning.
The result is a tense and truly cooperative experience where players must work together, communicate well, plan effectively, and use the strengths of their investigators in an attempt to stay a step ahead on the mean streets of the city.
- Cooperative
- Horror theme
- Set in Victorian London
- Timed element with programming actions
- Pressure on decisions
- Horror with supernatural elements
- Victorian era London
- Space Alert
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action programming — and uh programming element to this game so within the timed uh section of the game you're having to program actions that you'll then resolve later.
- cooperative play — I love Cooperative games I love working together with other players and talking
- Timed Element — it also has a timed element
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- I'm John perkus today I'm doing a vlog about my top 20 most anticipated games coming out at essenfeld
- if you are coming to Essen and you'd like to hang out then check out the other video I've posted for more details
- I find from the descriptions in the essm preview on Board Game Geek that the party games are the easiest to understand they're the easiest to read and go oh okay I think I would like that game I find it a lot harder to read the slightly dull description of a Euro game and understand whether it's going to be enjoyable to me
- if London dreg can combine that kind of pressure on decisions uh also with some great horror theme I Lov that it's set in London because that's where I'm set and uh uh I'm always looking for a game to play at Halloween then I think London dread is going to be a game for me
- if this is just pandemic with a bit more of a theme and great artwork then I'm on board
- I really love a party game that tries to bring a sense of spectacle
- it's a bit complicated to explain but I think it's going to be really interesting to play
- to me living in London playing a game where you get to live in a home and have whatever you want in that home is is Fantastical as playing a game with dragons in it
- Those are my top 20 most anticipated games coming out Essen Spiel 2016
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- It's incredibly exhausting and in terms of buying games well that's what Essen is designed for
- I had an amazing time at Essen Spiel and I've spent this entire week since thinking about how I'm going to do it better next year
- the atmosphere is what you go for