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Ciara Van Gheem
@maidenknight.bsky.social
TV writer in LA ✍️ Chesapeake Shores
Board game, tabletop, video game, MTG, cosplay nerd 🎲
If you're nostalgic for 8-bit NES games like Ghosts 'N Goblins, get ready for Boss Monster! 🎮 🦖
This time you're the villain, building dungeons to kill heroes before they reach you in your inner sanctum. Build the deadlier dungeon, or else the hero kills you instead!
#boardgame #cardgame #videogames
November 18, 2023 at 10:20 PM
If you love the Ghoul Bois and the tools they use, you'll love the gameplay of Paranormal Detectives! 👻🕯️
One player is the ghost and everyone else competes to solve the murder first! The ghost gives clues in so many fun ways: charades, ghost touch, and yes, ouija boards and spirit boxes!
#boardgames
November 17, 2023 at 11:11 PM
If lining up 3 or more brightly colored items brings you that sweet satisfaction, you'll love Potion Explosion! 🧪🤯
Like Candy Crush, you need a certain number of ingredients to make a potion, which you get by removing an item to make combos. Each potion gives you a unique power up!
#boardgames #app
November 17, 2023 at 12:31 AM
Haunting visions and crime-solving mediums: both can be found in Ghost Whisperer and Mysterium! 👻
In this collaborative game, one player is the ghost who cannot speak, everyone else is a medium trying to decode the ghost's "visions" (surreal art cards) to solve their murder.
#boardgames #gatewaygame
November 16, 2023 at 6:33 AM
Small town teen angst with an undercurrent of danger and mystery: both in Life is Strange and Alice is Missing!
In this clever RPG, you don't speak! All roleplaying is done over text; you play as small town teens trying to figure out what happened to a missing girl, all in 90 mins.
#rpgs #videogames
November 15, 2023 at 12:41 AM
If you love Disney's Aladdin and/or Choose Your Own Adventure books, you WISH for Tales of the Arabian Nights.🧞‍♂️
This is competitive adventure-choosing; as you explore the world, you find genies or magic items, but you'll never guess how your choices will change your story.
#boardgames #disney
November 11, 2023 at 8:10 PM
Political intrigue, family house wars, and terrible choices are rampant in both Game of Thrones and The King's Dilemma. 👑
You play as members of the King's council, voting on awful ethical dilemmas to further your family's power. This campaign game is full of branching storylines.
#boardgames #got
November 6, 2023 at 11:35 PM
Cute furry animals? More like brutal warfare and cunning strategy! ⚔️🛡️ Redwall and Root both hide a tough interior with a cute exterior! 🐭
Root is a strategic, asymmetric game where you play as one of four woodland factions, each vying for control of the forest.
#boardgames @ledergames.bsky.social
November 6, 2023 at 2:44 AM
If you love the twisted fairytale retelling Juniper & Thorn (cough you need therapy), you should play Bluebeard's Bride💍
In this gamified tale of Bluebeard, you play as the bride, opening doors to maddening rooms in your new husband's home. It's a gorey female horror RPG & it's GOREGOUS!
#rpg #ttrpg
November 4, 2023 at 10:56 PM
If you love the crunchy, turn-based combat in Baldur's Gate 3, you should totally try Gloomhaven!
In this genre-defying campaign dungeon crawl, you take on mercenary jobs, and your choices permanently affect the game. Every turn and item are precious in these battles! ⚔️
#boardgames #videogames #bg3
November 3, 2023 at 10:08 PM
Something about playing as Amelia Earhart, Victor Frankenstein, and H.P. Lovecraft reminds me of the team up in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
This is one of my favorite games of all time, an exploration and survival game set in the early 1900s on the mysterious 7th continent.🌴
#boardgames
November 2, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Have I played every Nancy Drew PC game there is? Yes. Am I always looking for something that makes me feel alive again like they do? Also yes.

Hunt a Killer: Mystery at Magnolia Gardens is a delightful mystery game where you solve puzzles and follow clues to crack the case! 🌷
#boardgames #nancydrew
November 1, 2023 at 10:50 PM
Remember the Pottsfield scene in Over the Garden Wall? If you DIG that aesthetic, you'll love the vibes of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. 🎃
This is a co-op campaign game where you explore and battle the strange going-ons in Sleepy Hollow. Creepy pumpkin men included.
#boardgames #boardgamerecs #otgw
October 31, 2023 at 12:52 AM
If Practical Magic is a must-watch every Halloween for you like it is for me, you'll love Wickedness RPG. 🔮
This RPG is for a coven of exactly 3 players. You and your sister witches must use your magics to keep the kingdom in balance, sacrificing much in the process.
#ttrpgs @deernicorn.bsky.social
October 29, 2023 at 11:55 PM
If you love the dungeon crawling RPG PC games of the 80s/90s like the Wizardry series, you'll love Escape the Dark Castle. 🏰
In this unforgiving co-op survival game, you're poor serfs trying to escape the dungeon of a cruel castle, and the black and white grim art is to die for.
#boardgames #pcgames
October 28, 2023 at 11:10 PM
You ever get the urge to play Where's Waldo, but like...for adults?

Micro Macro Crime City has you searching this GIANT map full of tiny details to discover who robbed who, who murdered who, or who is cheating with who's wife. 🤫

This is a quick, delightful game to play with friends or solo.
October 28, 2023 at 12:37 AM
If you like the dark, dueling circus aesthetic of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, you'll love being dueling ringmasters in Carnival of Monsters 🎪
In this drafting and set collection game, capture strange monsters and create more exciting exhibits to shock and awe your guests.
#boardgames #books
October 26, 2023 at 9:24 PM
For me, Kingdom Hearts and Disney Villainous serve childhood nostalgia.✨
In this asymmetric game, you play as different villains trying to defeat heroes and complete evil schemes before anyone else. All the different boards remind me of going world to world in the Gummy ship! #boardgames #videogames
October 25, 2023 at 6:41 PM
If you love the aesthetic of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (like I do), you'll swoon over Sagrada.

This dice drafting game is gorgeous, and as you place brightly colored dice into your stained glass window, you'll create your own masterpiece! No Christian guilt required!

#boardgames
October 24, 2023 at 8:43 PM
Small town? Check. Cryptids? Check. Mothman? Hell yeah!

If you love The Adventure Zone: Amnesty, you should try Horrified: American Monsters. In this co-op game, work together to save townsfolk and defeat cryptids from American folk legends. Try it out at your next board game night!
October 23, 2023 at 10:34 PM
A haunted house where any horror trope might attack you? Sign me up! 🧟
With 50 different endings, Betrayal At the House on the Hill feels like Cabin in the Woods: sometimes funny, sometimes horrifying, always unpredictable. Every playthrough is different. Great for a game night this spooky season! 🎃
October 22, 2023 at 11:52 PM
Strange things are happening in your small town, and it's up to you and your friends to solve it! The Welcome to Redview expansion of Chronicles of Crime has all the mystery and retro 80s vibes of Stranger Things. 📼
Use deductive reasoning and a cool app to investigate in this fantastic board game!
October 22, 2023 at 11:38 PM