Hey Darlings! I just realized I left out a few games and I feel bad for not telling you guys.
So for your final suggestions for games, here is my last list of both Board and Video Games to play during Halloween.
Five Nights at Freddy's: The Series: Ok, so I can't do well with this series. And I can't do much with the jump scares and people criticize that part. But ever since fan theories and MatPat's game theory videos, people love the lore, The overarching mystery of why the animatronics are possessed has been on everyone's minds. Though sometimes more questions are around that answers at times, its fun looking up all the theories behind what happened at our favorite Chuck E. Cheese Ripoff.
Fury of Dracula/Letters from Whitechapel: These two games have pretty much the same mechanic so I'll include them together. In Fury of Dracula, you play as Dracula and your opponents play the famous characters in Bram Stoker's novel to try to kill you. So either you win by killing everyone or unleashing chaos all over Europe or they win by killing you. Letters from Whitechapel has the same plot but either you play as Jack the Ripper or the investigators on the case. This game of Hide and Seek/Cat and Mouse is pretty fun when it's a guessing game to find out where your opponent is and trying to strategize the best way to arrest Jack the Ripper or kill Dracula. Fury of Dracula was also played on Will Wheaton's Tabletop so check it out there.
Luigi's Mansion and Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon: So this isn't a scary game but it's still fun nonetheless. You play as Mario's more timid brother Luigi and trust me, he has to muster all his courage to survive these 6 mansions. In the first game, you play as Luigi to celebrate getting a new mansion that turns out to be made by King Boo to trap Mario and Luigi. In Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, the Evershade Valley's Dark Moon is destroyed and the rather pacifistic ghosts turn hostile and you must go to the 5 mansions to repair it. Both games feature the Poltergust 3000 gadget and sucking up ghosts in a Ghostbusters fashion is always fun for me. And getting all that treasure too because there is a lot of money to collect in both games, (Spoiler: Collect as much of the money in 1 to get a nicer house and collect them in two to upgrade the Poltergust 5000. The Poltergust 4000 was in Mario Kart 7.) so go hunting guys! It's fun exploring these mansions and in Dark Moon, you get to go on missions to explore the mansions more and more so you'll be backtracking but it doesn't feel like a chore with new rooms to search.
One Night Ultimate Werewolf/Vampire/Alien: Ok so you play Mafia with cards, now play One Night Ultimate Werewolf or Mafia on Acid. In Mafia, you just have civilians, a doctor, a sheriff, and the Mafia. Kill the mafia and you win. But the One Night games make it harder with more roles to distinguish one another on. If the Werewolves/Vampires/Aliens trick everyone, they win. But if you don't get the wool pulled over your eyes, you win. It's a fun deduction game with collaboration and deceit. Also helps with trying to BS your way out of getting in trouble with your fellow friends.
The Haunted Mansion video game: Back in 2003 when Eddie Murphy tried entering my favorite real estate to a very cheesy and bad film, there was a video game to tie in. But the plot of the game wasn't like the movie which was definitely a one up. The game itself seems simple with being a fighter but also, it's a puzzle game. Each of the rooms you go inside in the mansion has a different puzzle that must be solved in order to turn on the lights and make everything alright. The game itself is simple and easy, and graphics are a little dated but the ambiance of the mansion with the textures being in respect to the rides and giving all these Easter Eggs you can find to make it all the more a nostalgic ride down memory lane. There are playthroughs on YouTube to find and the Soundtrack is one of my favorites to listen to.
Last Night on Earth/Dead of Winter: Both of these board games were played on Tabletop and both are Zombie Survival games. Last Night on Earth is more board focused while Dead of Winter is more Narrative focused with treachery in the midst of your environment too. Both have their own mechanics and I included them together because they are zombie based.
Gloom: I tried playing it once and trust me, this game is heavy in the narrative department so if you can't tell a good story, or someone can't give a good story, it falls very flat. HAVE CREATIVE PEOPLE TO PLAY THIS GAME WITH YOU! I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH! Ok back to the game. It's not a horror game but it's inspired by the comics and dark humor of Illustrator and Author Edward Gorey. You might know of his Gashlycrumb Tinies and the little children, who all died in alphabetical order, for various reasons. And pretty much your mission is to tell the saddest tale ever and destroy their lives. Like really screw them over. Whoever has the most negative points wins. So you have to play both bad cards on yourself and good cards on others but it goes into this fun (if death and gloom is fun) Victorian experience with the tragedies of these families.
Honorable Mentions:
Scooby Doo: Night of 100 Frights: Another collectors game. It's still very nostalgic and fun. Not scary but still enjoyable with the large and memorable world of Mystic Manor and the surrounding areas. And seeing all of Scooby's old enemies is pretty fun too.
Happy Haunted Gaming Darlings!
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