2005 · Party Game
Aye, Dark Overlord! The Red Box
Players portray goblin servants summoned before their tyrannical master to explain why a critical mission failed. Through improvised storytelling and short roleplay turns, each player invents excuses, shifts blame onto fellow goblins, and responds to accusations under time pressure or card prompts. Rounds progress as players build on each other’s lies until the master judges who is guilty. The game emphasizes quick thinking, humor, and social interaction, and plays quickly with simple rules.
- Players
- 4–16 best 5
- Playing time
- 30 min
- Age
- 13+
- Complexity
- 1.3 / 5
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Full stats in Ludoya- 41
- Plays logged
- 64
- Players
- 31m
- Average play
- 83
- In collections
- 1
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5.0/10
from 34 Ludoya reviews
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Garfield2.0 17 I think I will never find a group to play this game. It's also not really a game and it all depends on the dark overlord who get's the bad card. I can see some conflicts raising...
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Storytelling Card Game. It can be funny to play but the game is really nothing, a simple background just to tell stupid stories. I prefere to do it without a game in between.
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