Nightmarium

About this board game

Nightmarium is a nightmare-building game for 2–5 players, with games lasting about 30 minutes. Combine cards representing Night Terrors into creatures so terrifying that their abilities can turn the game in your favor.

Each creature is assembled from a head, torso, and legs. Night Terrors belong to one of four Legions of Horror, identified by card color: blue Necromunculi, brown Constricti, green Chimeridae, or red Mansters. Creatures can mix legions, but matching all three cards to one legion brings an additional effect.

On your turn, choose any two actions. Draw a card, discard cards to take half as many from the deck, or play a card and activate a completed creature’s abilities. When you complete a creature by adding a head to a torso, resolve its abilities from top to bottom, beginning with the head, continuing through the torso, and ending with the legs.

• Herald: Reveal two cards and place any playable ones in front of you.
• Weeper: Draw two cards.
• Mocker: Play one card from your hand.
• Executioner: Take the top card from another player’s creature.
• Scavenger: Discard an incomplete creature.
• Devourer: Discard the top card of one of your other creatures.

A creature made entirely from one legion forces each opponent to discard a card from that legion, or two cards if they cannot. The game ends immediately when a player completes five creatures. In Nightmarium, build your nightmare carefully, nourish it with fear, and claim victory as the Master of Terror.