Best Board Games for Halloween to Get You in the Mood for Halloween

Most people would not think of board games as an obvious medium for the kind of heart-stopping shocks or shivers that the horror genre is known for generating. 

However, there are still the best board games for Halloween that evoke the anxiety of coming across the unfamiliar with their cleverly crafted shocks and mind-numbing riddles.

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Best Halloween board games

Avalon Hill Hasbro Gaming Betrayal at The House on The Hill

The House on the Hill still sits abandoned, and a brave group of explorers has been lured to the abandoned mansion on the Hill to discover its sinister mysteries. 

Become fully involved in the story while assuming the character of one of those explorers!

However, even the toughest among you will be alarmed by the dozens of dangerous chambers and 50 spooky haunts in the cooperative board game Betrayal at House on the Hill, Third Edition. 

You'll cooperate at initially, but watch out—after one explorer betrays the others, the havoc starts. 

Ravensburger Horrified

Since Horrified is a cooperative game, players must work together to defeat the antagonists. The difficulty of the game determines how many fiends you must defeat. 

When you first start playing, the rules recommend that you start with Gill-man and Dracula. As you become familiar with the rules, you may then add other monsters to increase the challenge.

Depending on which monsters are on the board, there are several ways to fight them, and in a twist that is family-friendly, none of them are truly eliminated. 

The cure for The Wolf Man's lycanthropy, breaking The Mummy's curse, and putting him back in his tomb are among the goals.

The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow

Enter Millers Hollow, a fascinating and mysterious hamlet where hideous foes lurk among the locals in the shadows. You'll have to answer the most important question in this immersive party game: Who can you trust? 

Some players take on the role of villagers entrusted with gathering the townspeople and exposing the danger lurking in plain sight. Their objective is to locate and destroy the werewolves before they take over the entire town. 

If you're a werewolf, your goal is to team up with other monsters and kill the terrified villagers one by one. It is your role to instill mistrust and suspicion in the community until the werewolves are the only ones left in control.

Betrayal at House on the Hill (3rd Edition)

A character with varying characteristics, such as sanity, knowledge, might, and speed, is allocated to each player. 

They draw cards as they explore a frightening home, gathering objects and engaging in bizarre, evocative experiences—like bumping into spiders or playing games with a terrifying youngster who becomes angry with his toys. 

Subsequently, during the second stage, a single player betrays the others and is tasked with participating in one of the over 50 distinct scenarios. 

In a thrilling showdown, the traitor squares up against the other players until one side prevails.

Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition

In Mansions of Madness, you take on the role of an investigator investigating the gloomy streets of Innsmouth and the ghostly Arkham mansions. Prepare to fight otherworldly foes and unearth mysteries as you play.

With 4 progressively challenging campaigns, you'll need to use your cunning to answer riddles and vanquish the evil powers haunting the town.

Cthulu: Death May Die

Players are investigators tasked with taking down an Elder God. They are running late since the ceremony of summoning is already in progress. 

They can, however, destroy the deity before it has a chance to establish a foothold if they can gather enough evidence to identify a vulnerability or slightly modify the ritual to induce one. 

Working together, the players will battle cultists, look for solutions, and attempt to prevent their already fractured brains from going any further.

Mysterium Board Game

There is a ghost in Mysterium Manor and the reasons behind its demise remain a mystery. So players of the game who are psychics get together to reenact the crime. 

Without the ghost's assistance, they won't be able to find the truth; their only means of obtaining information are through visions. The ghost will vanish before daybreak, but time is running out!

Arkham Horror 3rd Edition

In the cooperative board game Arkham Horror 3rd edition - one of the best Halloween games, players take the roles of investigators tasked with purging the world of Eldritch creatures known as ancient ones. 

The game may accommodate one to six players. 

Players must acquire clues, battle scary monsters, locate tools and allies, and gather information based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft to have any hope of destroying the things that lurk just below the surface of our world.

Clue Conspiracy Board Game

In this strategic game of trickery and deduction, players take on secret roles on opposing teams—Friends vs the Conspiracy—while playing as Clue characters. 

In addition to trying to help Mr. Coral, the Friends try to figure out the What, Where, and Who of the Conspiracy's covert plot. Meanwhile, the members of the Conspiracy attempt to subtly undermine the Friends and kill him using a certain weapon and location. 

There will be hints for both teams to share, or not! Which team will win?