Horrified: Greek Monsters

My kids love games where you fight some kind of monster (like D &D or a video game with story levels) but I get bored. I’m not great at the storytelling and it takes too long. This game I actually enjoy. The rules are more clear which I appreciate. It takes about an hour and the game is cooperative. There is still plenty of fun strategizing and discussion about what any of us will do on our turn to help the team beat the monsters. This is a great in between game for people who loved D&D and people who don’t (but love people who do) :-)

I’ve been a big fan of the Horrified games and was excited of this new version involving Greek Monsters. While I do wish they had maybe did something like London monsters (Jack the Ripper, Springheel Jack, etc.), this is still a good version of Horrified. While it is still a reskin, there are some new things/features that stand out. 1. Each monster has 3 symbols. When drawing a Monster Card during the Monster phase, an event or movement of the monster will be represented by its symbol and color just like its predecessors. However, the Siren has 3 symbols like the Branch of Dionysus, Vase of Aphrodite, Wings of Hermes. Depending on the monster you use, other monsters like Medusa, the Minotaur, and the Basilisk share a symbol with the Siren which means multiple monsters can move just like in the previous games. 2. Lairs that must be found. Unlike its predecessors where when you use a monster you place a lair token indicating where you need to go to advance and/or defeat them, you must find them by spending an action to reveal the lair. There are 4 lairs 1 for the Minotaur, Medusa, Chimera, and Cerberus. You must have all the lairs on the board regardless if you’re not using the monster. It gets tricky especially solo mode because your turn can be wasted when revealing a lair for a monster that isn’t in play and 1 monster card will force you to turn over a reveal lair token face down and shuffle any other face down lairs and place them near the locations where a lair needs to be. 3. Heroes have more unique abilities than its predecessors. Where the Universal and American Heroes have pretty much the same abilities, the Greek Heroes are very much different. For starters, there is no Hero with 3 actions anymore though there is one (The Traveler) that has 5 but no ability. Abilities are known as Favor of the Gods (FotG) and some abilities are worse than others. The Shepard’s FotG is looking at the top Monster Card. Seems good, but feels like a bit of a waste of an action especially in solo play. Feels more like an ability that should always be in effect at the start of the players turn similar to the Ranger FotG where he takes a Perk card should the Terror Level increase. For most part, the Heroes abilities are pretty much a lot different from the previous Horrified Heroes. In terms of what I like is the components. The board is colorful and sturdy. The figurines are top notch like in the American Monsters version. The perk cards and the monsters card are a tad flimsy but are well designed. Some of the new ways to defeat the monsters are unique albeit pretty difficult. Cerberus, for example, requires rolling the dice and matching the faces on the locks to open the underworld and send Cerberus back. If there is anything I don’t like is, again, 1 or 2 Heroes abilities isn’t great, There’s also the monster mats for each monster. While great in design, it can be flimsy and easy to bend a bit, but what is annoying are the edges that stick out in the corner and on the sides of the mat. They come in a big bag and if you’re planning to use bag, the mats tends to catch the bag when you pull them out or put them back in. Finally the biggest issue I have is the rules particularly the rules for the monsters. Where the Universal and American monsters have more detail in how they work in the game as well as some detailed background to what they are, in Greek Monsters it’s more streamlined. There are 2 pages for the monsters at the end of the rule book with each monster that list its objective, setup, power, advance, and defeat and it’s about the size of the paragraph of which just about everything can be found on the monster mats. For a game about Greek Monsters, they could’ve gone into more detail background about each for those who are not familiar or don’t remember some of the monsters. I know it seems like a superfluous thing focus on, but it’s seems like a step back from the previous rules where it introduces the monster and then explains how they work and how to defeat them. Still despite these issues it’s still a solid Horrified game that I would recommend to any Horrified fans or to those who love Greek mythology. If you’re not a fan or lack interest in Greek Mythology and monsters this may not be for you. Also might be useful to do a bit research as a brush up for the monsters, the locations (Acropolis , Temple of Nyx etc), and the Legends (Chiron, Orion, etc). Not necessary, but might be useful.

We love all the Horrified games! So much fun and replayable!!!

Each version of this game is so fun to play and really uses strategy that isn't consistent every game. Great packaging, so cute and aesthetically pleasing, & a good cooperative game if your mother is too competitive to play even go-fish

Fun cooperative game. All of the Horrified games are the same, with different characters. Pick your favorite monster genre and have a good time. The more players the better, but we play it as a two-some and still have fun.

My son loves this game and has played it many times since getting it for Christmas. I love that he can play with others or by himself if there is no one else to play with him.

Cool game, not overly complicated. Players against the monsters. My kid loves Percy Jackson, so greek monsters is great.

Great game for groups or solo play. Adjustable difficulty dynamic keeps the game fresh.

Love these games and we have the universal monsters. Great for 1-5 players

Excelente producto, esta muy divertido el juego

Muy entretenida la manera de vencer a los monstruos, definitivamente debe estar en la colección, un juego muy sencillo para aprender a jugar y entretenido

Rules seem daunting but makes more sense as you play it. Fun to play cooperatively rather than against others

Lo compre incluso con descuento. El arte no es homólogo, parece un teatro de cosas griegas y modernas, la mayoria de personajes parecen un chiste, los mosntruos estan aceptables. Los componentes son casi todos hechos de material barato, se siente que se rompera al primer uso, las cartas son notablemente mas delgadas que unas cartas standar. La dinamica del juego es lo unico bueno, pero a decir verdad, tomando en cuenta que hay otras opciones, esta no la consideraria. Con descuento o sin descuento, no lo vale, absolutamente no recomiendo. La edición de monstruos universales es la mejor.