Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
14+
Playtime
90 min
Complexity
2.8/5
Collection
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Description
Elite agents investigate a haunted locale and piece together the identity of a malevolent demon while managing dwindling sanity and escalating supernatural threats before attempting a banishment ritual or escape
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mixed
Pros
- Demon Vault system is genuinely innovative and core to the deduction
- Two-phase structure delivers strong pacing between discovery and confrontation
- Tactile equipment puzzles enhance immersion and feel relevant after demon engagement
- Sanity system adds meaningful tension and strategic depth
- High replayability due to demon variants, multiple operations, difficulties, and agent count
Cons
- High complexity; not a casual party game; requires a focused group
- Relentless timer stress from the event deck
- Setup and teardown are involved with modular boards and many components
- Solo mode scaling details are unclear or underexplained
- Production/art quality previews are uncertain; tangible artifacts may vary
- Potential for alpha gaming dynamics if louder players dominate
Thematic elements
- Cooperative horror deduction centered on demon tracking and banishment
- Haunted mansion with 49 modular zones
- Investigation and exorcism with dynamic fate tension
Comparison games
- Mansions of Madness Second Edition
- Mysterium
- Arkham Horror LCG
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Afterlife / spectre mode — If claimed, a player can continue to support the team as a spectre.
- Banishment ritual — Confront the demon by placing a summoning circle and completing a relic-based ritual.
- cooperative deduction — Players work together to identify a demon via trait testing and a trait matrix.
- Demon Vault system — Each demon has its own mini deck and bespoke components; the vault adds 15 demon-specific event cards to the generic deck.
- Fate deck / timer mechanic — An event deck that sets a fate value from 1 to 5, affecting item performance and tension.
- Modular Board — A mansion with 49 zones to explore, piecing together clues to identify the demon.
- Modular exploration — A mansion with 49 zones to explore, piecing together clues to identify the demon.
- sanity system — Characters face sanity checks; consequences include being frightened or becoming a supporting spectre.
- Tactile equipment puzzles — Hands-on gear (spirit box, thermal imager, scrying orb) used to test for traits rather than rolling dice.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Demon vault system is genuinely innovative.
- The fate system replacing dice. Clean.
- If your table hates timers and fiddly setup, this will drive you up the Ashwood Manor wallpaper.
- Deliciously brutal.
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