Cerberus. Medusa. Minotaur. Chimera. Basilisk. Siren. You know the names, you know the stories. In Horrified: Greek Monsters, you get to face them, alone or with the help of friends.
At its core, Horrified: Greek Monsters is a game about collecting objects and performing certain actions before you run out of time. To slay Medusa, you need to set up four mirrors and lure her into a garden. To take down the Chimera, you have to put each head to sleep. To defeat Cerberus, you have to open the gates to Hades and push him in. Slaying the Cockatrice means blessing a different item in four different temples.
While racing around the board attempting to complete these quests, you’ll occasionally meet the great heroes of legend and attempt to escort them to certain locations on the Island of Elysium. However, if either you or one of those heroes is slain by a monster, the time-tracker moves one space. Luckily, such a defeat is temporary; you’ll just reappear at the temple of Nyx. That said, if the tracker moves seven times, the game is over and the monsters are victorious.
You usually face multiple monsters at a time, and when it’s the monsters’ turn to take an action, you’ll draw a card. Most monster cards put new items to collect on the board and give actions to monsters that have certain features. For instance, the card might activate all winged monsters, or all monsters that have the Rampage keyword. Because of this, the draw of a card might activate only one monster, none of the monsters, or, in the worst-case scenario, ALL of the monsters.
The monsters also possess special abilities. For instance, the Siren can force all the players on the board to move one space closer to her. The abilities are thematically appropriate and add a lot of replayability, allowing you to face different synergies depending on which particular monsters you’re facing.
Horrified: Greek Monsters can entertain between one and five players, and a game takes about an hour to play. If you’re a fan of the Horrified games (Greek Monsters is the third in the series), you’ll absolutely want to pick this one up to enjoy the new wrinkles they’ve added. Fans of Greek mythology will also enjoy the way the monsters’ legends have been translated into game mechanics. Head over to your local Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy today and speak to the legendary staff about adding Horrified: Greek Monsters to your collection today.
