2011 · Fantasy

Nightfall

A deck-building game set in a new dark world where vampires, werewolves and ghouls vie for control during an endless night. Play begins with a draft that determines which cards enter the common market and which go into each player’s private archives; archived cards can only be bought by the drafting player. Players build personal decks from a shared selection and a private pool while managing wounds that accumulate in their deck. The core mechanic is chaining: cards have a primary color and two linking colors, and matching link colors lets players add cards to a shared chain. Chains resolve last-in, first-out, triggering instant effects that damage opponents, summon defenders or alter board state. The aim is to wound opponents’ decks while keeping one’s own deck as intact and efficient as possible.

groupPlayers

2–5 best 3

schedulePlaying time

45 min

cakeAge

12+

psychologyComplexity

2.6 / 5