Inspired by John Carpenter’s Halloween and other classic slasher films, the survival horror tabletop game 1978: The Night They Came Home is now funding through Kickstarter.
Emulating classic slasher films of the ’70s and ’80s, 1978: The Night They Came Home is a survival horror tabletop game that pits a slasher against a survivor on Halloween night.
One player takes on the role of the Survivor, a resilient person caught up in a sequence of escalating nightmarish events as they are pursued by the Slasher, a supernatural killing machine controlled by the opposing player. Using customized cards to generate prompts and build an emergent narrative, play moves from day to night on a forsaken Halloween in 1978.
During the day, both Survivor and Slasher build their backstories, drafting cards and accumulating resources for an imminent showdown. In the night, Slasher and Survivor enter the house for a deadly game of cat and mouse,...
Emulating classic slasher films of the ’70s and ’80s, 1978: The Night They Came Home is a survival horror tabletop game that pits a slasher against a survivor on Halloween night.
One player takes on the role of the Survivor, a resilient person caught up in a sequence of escalating nightmarish events as they are pursued by the Slasher, a supernatural killing machine controlled by the opposing player. Using customized cards to generate prompts and build an emergent narrative, play moves from day to night on a forsaken Halloween in 1978.
During the day, both Survivor and Slasher build their backstories, drafting cards and accumulating resources for an imminent showdown. In the night, Slasher and Survivor enter the house for a deadly game of cat and mouse,...
- 6/13/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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