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As Halloween grows closer, the weather colder, and the shadows grow longer and more menacing, it becomes an ideal time to be indoors. Lock your doors, bolt your windows, and sit down at the game table with these spooky games of choice for the Halloween season!

Last Night On Earth

• Published by Flying Frog Productions
• 2-6 Players
• 60 minute game play

Last Night On Earth pits the human survivors against the insurmountable odds of surviving a single night during a zombie feeding fest. What makes this game especially interesting is that there is an intelligence behind the zombies, namely, another player. The Human players must work together to survive or risk being munched on, while the Zombie player does all they can to munch on the remains of the living.

The game is scenario-based, meaning there is a defined objective for both the Human and Zombie players. Victory conditions are dependent on the scenario being played. Some scenarios are more difficult than others, but only in the sense of the time allocated to achieve the victory condition is lessened.

If you are a zombie lover and enjoy the thrill of having a house crash around you as zombie tear through the walls, then this is the game for you.

Betrayal at the House on the Hill

• Published by Avalon Hill
• 3-6 Players
• 90 minute game play

Now here is a game specifically designed to make you second guess. Throughout the entire first half of the story, all the players are working together towards a common goal. However, once a number of events occur, everything goes topsy-turvy and those who you trusted suddenly become monsters, Hell bent on your destruction.

This game comes with a large number of possible, random scenarios wherein a the object is always different. An interesting mechanic of a double-blind (wherein the "bad guy" doesn't know what the heroes need to do to win and vice versa) make the second portion of the game a made dash scramble to survive.

The different scenarios range from a murderer in the house to another dimension pushing its way into ours. Top that with a randomly built house and you have a game that is endlessly replayable and always challenging.

The Haunting House

• Published by Twilight Creations
• 2-6 Players
• 45 minutes

This game pits you against an ever-changing house, wherein the only object of the entire game is to leave. But that isn't nearly as easy as it sounds.

Each player gets to determine their move, but the house around them is constantly shifting, making their decision to go through the door to their right on their next turn, suddenly mean they are faced with not a door, but a bottomless pit. Add in the element of chaos created by the other players inserting random directly decisions for you, and you have a very difficult house to leave.

The door is always in front of you, just out of reach. Are you crafty (and lucky) enough to make it out of the house, alive?

Ghost Stories

• Published by Repos Productions
• 1-4 Players
• 60 minutes

Heavily inspired by Easter mythology and Taoist traditions, this cooperative game lets the players take on the role of Taoist Monk Ghost Hunters who fight to save a village from Wu-Feng, the lord of hell, and his ghostly minions.

Players must work together to determine their best strategy. Ease of play masquerades an almost endless possibility of different strategies. Add random elements of chance and the need to work together, and you have a family game that can hit the family game table again and again without ever getting old

What? No more?

Oh, there are more. Lots more. But, don't you have a favorite of your own? Let's hear about them! Leave a comment and educate us!