The Shining

About this board game

The Shining is a suspenseful board game for 3–5 players that takes about 60 minutes to play. Set in the isolated Overlook Hotel during the winter closure, it combines cooperation, deception, and terror.

You have traveled into the heart of the Rocky Mountains to take charge of the hotel, but you are not alone. The building’s bloody history has left some past guests as permanent additions, bringing terrifying visions that begin to corrupt your mind.

Snowed in and surrounded by the hotel’s evil influence, players must explore its rooms while attempting to gain enough willpower to withstand what awaits them. Every decision takes place under the pressure of isolation, haunting visions, and a growing threat within the group.

• Cooperation: Work together to face the dangers of the Overlook Hotel.
• Deception: One player has already succumbed to the hotel’s terrible forces.
• Survival: Explore the rooms and build enough willpower to resist corruption.

The hidden danger changes the nature of the group’s struggle. While most players attempt to endure the hotel’s influence and escape its grasp, one secretly acts to keep everyone there forever and ever. Trust becomes as important as survival, and every unsettling moment may raise doubts about who can still be relied upon.

Released in 2020, The Shining brings the atmosphere of a snowbound haunted hotel to the table through a tense blend of shared goals, secret opposition, and psychological terror.