Bring Out Yer Dead

About this board game

Bring Out Yer Dead is a morbid family-and-influence game for 2–5 players, played in about 40 minutes. As the head of your family, you must get your “dying” family members into the best plots in the city’s newest cemetery.

Each day, the Grave Keeper brings a cart around the city. Families vie to get their members into the cart before their rivals do, creating a race for space among the coffins. But the cart has limits: any coffins the lazy Grave Keeper cannot fit are tossed aside in the river and will never be buried.

Once your family members reach the cemetery, placement matters. Getting recently departed relatives buried in the best plots earns influence in the city, and influence is the key to victory. The challenge is not only deciding who gets transported, but also making the most of the plots available.

• Compete for places in the Grave Keeper’s cart.
• Place family members in the cemetery’s best plots.
• Use early morning grave swapping to alter arrangements.
• Rob graves for jewelry, since the deceased will not need it.

With its darkly comic setting and direct competition between families, Bring Out Yer Dead turns burial arrangements into a struggle for status. Secure valuable plots, protect your family members from being discarded, and find every possible way to increase your influence.

At the end of the game, the player with the most influence wins. Released in 2015, this compact game combines cemetery placement, contested transportation, and grim opportunism around a memorable central goal: make sure your family gets buried in the best places.