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Identify! You are a Shadow, a creature of the night, or a Hunter, a human whose job is to destroy supernatural creatures, or a civilian, a normal human just caught in the middle of this ancient battle. But your identity remains secret until someone outs you through your actions and through Hermit cards or you reveal yourself to use your special ability. The key to victory is to identify your allies and enemies early. Survival! Once your identity is revealed, your enemies will attack without impunity using their special abilities like Demolish, Teleport, and Suck Blood or equipment cards such as the Rusty Broad Ax or Fortune Brooch. This ancient battle comes to a head and only one group will stand victorious – or a civilian, in the right circumstances, might claim victory. Good game for a large group of players. EXPANSION: 10 new characters!! Available now.
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Identify! You are a Shadow, a creature of the night, or a Hunter, a human whose job is to destroy supernatural creatures, or a civilian, a normal human just caught in the middle of this ancient battle. But your identity remains secret until someone outs you through your actions and through Hermit cards or you reveal yourself to use your special ability. The key to victory is to identify your allies and enemies early. Survival! Once your identity is revealed, your enemies will attack without impunity using their special abilities like Demolish, Teleport, and Suck Blood or equipment cards such as the Rusty Broad Ax or Fortune Brooch. This ancient battle comes to a head and only one group will stand victorious ? or a civilian, in the right circumstances, might claim victory. Good game for a large group of players. EXPANSION: 10 new characters!! Available now.
Features include:
•4-8 Player game
•60 Minutes to play
Features include:
•4-8 Player game
•60 Minutes to play
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Shadow Hunters fills several niches in my gaming circle: it's fast-- a full game ranges from 30 minutes to an hour with experienced players. It accommodates a large number of players, other than pure party games like Cranium or Taboo there aren't many other games that work well with bigger groups like 5 to 8 people. But the strongest appeal of the game is the mystery each game brings: every player has a secret identity and victory condition which allows them to win. The game is spent trying to figure out who the other players are and what they're trying to do, by the actions they take and pieces of information you're able to learn about them through hermit cards. I've found that whether I'm winning or losing, the game is always exciting because I'm constantly trying to discover who everyone is and predict how the game will turn out, and the game is such that even if your character dies you can still win.
There are three "teams" in the game, Hunters who are trying to kill Shadows, Shadows who are trying to kill Hunters or kill three Neutrals if that's possible, and Neutrals who each have their own objective: one is just trying to survive, one is trying to obtain equipment cards, one is trying to kill someone when two people have already died, and one wants to die first or else get rid of the Shadows. All characters have special abilities they can only use when revealed, one Shadow character can heal upon attacking successfully, and two of the hunters can deal out a one-time attack to damage a character. The danger is that using your ability forces you to reveal which character you are and open yourself up to retaliation from your enemies. Players take damage throughout the game and go up on an HP track: the points where different characters die are labelled, so that if you make it to 8 Health, you have to reveal if you're the character who dies at that point, otherwise everyone knows you have to be a character with more than 8 health.
The basic mechanics of the game are rolling the dice to move between locations, taking cards, and choosing whether to attack anyone near your location. You get information about other players by playing hermit cards, which answer questions like "is this player a hunter or neutral" or "does this character have more than 11 hp". You keep track of the information you've learned to guess who's on your team and who wants you dead, although one Shadow character, the Unknown, is allowed to lie on hermit cards, which always leaves an element of uncertainty. The mechanics are refreshingly simple, while there's a high amount of luck, you make a number of hugely influential decisions in how to use your special ability, when to reveal yourself, and when to try to kill someone you think is your enemy. The game largely plays out on the basis of who knows what, and who can trick someone else, and what makes the strategy so rewarding to come back to is that it's all about out-thinking the people around you and out-bluffing and out-guessing them. Similarly to why poker has lasted so long, it's not about mastering the game but the social environment the game facilitates.
Shadow Hunters has probably gotten the most play out of any of the games in my collection for its simplicity and depth. Every time you play you can be a different character, and your friends and enemies can be completely different. I'd consider it a large improvement over games like Clue or Mafia which depend upon learning information or reading your opponents, and I'd recommend it to anyone who's able to corral a big enough group into playing.
There are three "teams" in the game, Hunters who are trying to kill Shadows, Shadows who are trying to kill Hunters or kill three Neutrals if that's possible, and Neutrals who each have their own objective: one is just trying to survive, one is trying to obtain equipment cards, one is trying to kill someone when two people have already died, and one wants to die first or else get rid of the Shadows. All characters have special abilities they can only use when revealed, one Shadow character can heal upon attacking successfully, and two of the hunters can deal out a one-time attack to damage a character. The danger is that using your ability forces you to reveal which character you are and open yourself up to retaliation from your enemies. Players take damage throughout the game and go up on an HP track: the points where different characters die are labelled, so that if you make it to 8 Health, you have to reveal if you're the character who dies at that point, otherwise everyone knows you have to be a character with more than 8 health.
The basic mechanics of the game are rolling the dice to move between locations, taking cards, and choosing whether to attack anyone near your location. You get information about other players by playing hermit cards, which answer questions like "is this player a hunter or neutral" or "does this character have more than 11 hp". You keep track of the information you've learned to guess who's on your team and who wants you dead, although one Shadow character, the Unknown, is allowed to lie on hermit cards, which always leaves an element of uncertainty. The mechanics are refreshingly simple, while there's a high amount of luck, you make a number of hugely influential decisions in how to use your special ability, when to reveal yourself, and when to try to kill someone you think is your enemy. The game largely plays out on the basis of who knows what, and who can trick someone else, and what makes the strategy so rewarding to come back to is that it's all about out-thinking the people around you and out-bluffing and out-guessing them. Similarly to why poker has lasted so long, it's not about mastering the game but the social environment the game facilitates.
Shadow Hunters has probably gotten the most play out of any of the games in my collection for its simplicity and depth. Every time you play you can be a different character, and your friends and enemies can be completely different. I'd consider it a large improvement over games like Clue or Mafia which depend upon learning information or reading your opponents, and I'd recommend it to anyone who's able to corral a big enough group into playing.
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I can't believe that local game stores are not carrying this game!!! My group is filled with BIG gamers: Board - Card - RPG - Dice - etc. I brought this one out to play while we were waiting for others to show up and we loved it so much that we played it 7 times before switching games! (We usually have over 20 game choices any giver night. Top of those are Settlers of Catan, Formula DE, Thunderstone, MTG, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Shadows Over Camelot, Boom-O, Quarriors, D&D, and others...)
You have victory conditions depending on the random character card you get. You are either Hunter, Shadow, or Neutral character. Mainly Hunters are trying to get rid of the Shadows, and Shadows the Hunters.
A six player game will end up with two of each type. So you pull a Hunter card and think 'Ok I just need to take out the Shadows with the help of my partner no problem...' The problem is that no one knows who anyone else is! So you pull 'Hermit' cards that you can use to force a player to give you a clue. Something like: "I think you are either a Shadow or a Neutral. If you are take 1 damage or give me an equipment card." If they take damage you know a little more about them. Once you have enough clues you can safely start attacking that player. Wait! if the hunters goal is to take out the Shadows and the Shadows the Hunters what about the Neutrals?!? Every Neutral has a different win condition! From `Be alive when someone else wins' to `Take out any player with at least 15 max life.'
Oh I forgot to mention that each character card has a revel yourself affect. Like reset you life total, or the Neutral that has a win condition of the person on your right wins is now the person on your left.
Turn sequence is 3 stages. 1 Roll dice and move to location on the board. 2 May use special ability of the location (i.e. draw a Hermit card). 3. Attack a player in your location or the location next to you. That's it! It took us one round to understand how to play and we had hours of enjoyment.
Other reviews may do more justice to helping you understand the game, but I hope this one entices you because I think every game group should have a copy of this game in their collection!
You have victory conditions depending on the random character card you get. You are either Hunter, Shadow, or Neutral character. Mainly Hunters are trying to get rid of the Shadows, and Shadows the Hunters.
A six player game will end up with two of each type. So you pull a Hunter card and think 'Ok I just need to take out the Shadows with the help of my partner no problem...' The problem is that no one knows who anyone else is! So you pull 'Hermit' cards that you can use to force a player to give you a clue. Something like: "I think you are either a Shadow or a Neutral. If you are take 1 damage or give me an equipment card." If they take damage you know a little more about them. Once you have enough clues you can safely start attacking that player. Wait! if the hunters goal is to take out the Shadows and the Shadows the Hunters what about the Neutrals?!? Every Neutral has a different win condition! From `Be alive when someone else wins' to `Take out any player with at least 15 max life.'
Oh I forgot to mention that each character card has a revel yourself affect. Like reset you life total, or the Neutral that has a win condition of the person on your right wins is now the person on your left.
Turn sequence is 3 stages. 1 Roll dice and move to location on the board. 2 May use special ability of the location (i.e. draw a Hermit card). 3. Attack a player in your location or the location next to you. That's it! It took us one round to understand how to play and we had hours of enjoyment.
Other reviews may do more justice to helping you understand the game, but I hope this one entices you because I think every game group should have a copy of this game in their collection!
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When my board game friends and I get to gether it is often hard to find a really fun game that you can play over and over again, with a lot of players where the game actually does not take hours and hours to play. Shadow Hunters fits the bill really well as a game that takes lots of players (up to 8) while not taking hours to play.
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Absolutely love this game!
Shadow Hunters is one of my very favorite games, and I'm so glad it was re-released with the expansion included. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ariana Hazzard
Like Clue and Bang but with Vampires and Vampire Hunters!
This has quickly become one of my favorite "quick" games to play! It is for 4-8 players, and the more people playing, the funner it is, and more challenging to figure out who's... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Shilom
FUN GAME
The game's really fun (and addicting). Great way to burn through time. Games are fast-paced and fun. Really entertaining and high replay value.
Published 2 months ago by MREOW
Phenomenal Hidden Traitor game
Shadow Hunters is a fantastic hidden traitor game in the same vein as Werewolf and Battlestar Galactica. Read more
Published 2 months ago by W. Sanders
Fantastic Game!
I played this game at DragonCon this year (2011) and had so much fun with it! Myself and several of my friends spent about 5 hours playing it, almost back to back during lulls in... Read more
Published 4 months ago by David H.
Great Arrival for a Great Product
It arrived very quickly, I don't even know why they offer the fast delivery when it is almost as fast to do standard shipping; however, the game arrived in great condition (perfect... Read more
Published 13 months ago by spiderfingers86
Great Multi-player game
One of the few games that works well with 6-8 people. It doesn't work that well for 4 though which means that it does not come out all that often at my house. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Geordie W. Korper
Worth a try
I bought this game on the recommendation of Tom Vasel's review. It is well worth a try. If you like Bang! the card game, you will love Shadow Hunters.
Published 16 months ago by Rich L
A easy to learn who is who game
This is kind of a detectives game with three teams on it. The three sides are the hunters, the shadows and the neutrals. The goal of the game is different for the three teams. Read more
Published on July 7, 2009 by Filip Marzuki
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