The other day I went over to a friend’s house to play this new board game called Betrayed. For those of you who like the movie Cabin in the Woods, this is like playing the movie. It starts with all the players exploring the house. Every time you go into a new room, you place a tile down. Events can happen in each room and if you find an omen, you have to roll to see if the ‘haunt’ begins. We stumbled upon a blob that transformed you into a blob human if you touched it. In the end, two of the players were cornered and we had one last player to use his turn to kill it. It has to be one of the most nerve-wracking games I have ever played.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10547/betrayal-at-house-on-the-hill
As you explore, more of the house is revealed. There is an upstairs and a basement.
There are three types of cards: Events, which have something random happen, Items which you can use, and Omens, which have an event and correspond to the ‘haunt’ if it is summoned.
Here are some example of omen cards. Like the items in the Cabin in the Woods, these summon different ‘haunts’ when found in different rooms.
When the ‘haunt’ is summoned, that person may be the traitor, who now has a different win scenario from the rest of the group. Everything they do is secret and they control the monster. The rest of the survivors read from the survivor’s book and learn how to defeat the haunt, which the traitor doesn’t know about.
This is a really fun game, though starts to get stressful if you’re competitive. It’s common for you to die a lot too, and you really have to rely on your fellow survivors, so make sure they aren’t trolls…
The Confused Spinda 