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NOSFERATU

VAMPIRE vs. HUNTER

Nosferatu and his devoted servant Renfield fighting vampire hunters: At the start of the game the hunters only know Renfield, Nosferatu the Vampire is hiding among the hunters, only Renfield knows his true identity. Hunters must identify the vampire and kill him with the Ancestral Stake before Nosferatu has played five Bite cards. Should the hunters make a mistake and stake one of their own group they instantly lose the game.

From a library of cards for rumors, components and bites each player – with the exception of Renfield – starts with two cards; three Rites cards are on display openly.

Then you play in rounds until one of the victory conditions is met: You draw two cards, discard one card face-up, place one card into the action stack and draw a card. When a player draws the card Dawn or when each player has had a complete turn, this phase of the round ends. Now Renfield shuffles the cards in the action deck and turns them ab: When there are only components, the player with the Stake choses one Rites card and implements it – Renfield reveals one Character or a Bite is annulled or one of the Night cards is removed from the clock. Should Renfield reveal bite cards he hands them out: The bitten hunter loses one card. If you draw the Dawn card you can stake somebody or hand the stake on. When nobody was bitten in a round, the holder of the Ancestral Stake must turn over a Character card – he might catch Nosferatu!

Nosferatu is a well-made adaptation of the werewolf topic with an attractive mix of cooperation, tactic and bluff; I am tempted to say „I bites you“ instead of it grabs you!

Players: 5-8

Age: 10+

Time: 20+

Designer: Pierre-Yves Lebeau

Art: Ismaël Pommaz

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Grosso Modo Editions 2013

Web: www.gm-editions.fr

Genre: Cooperative deduction game

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Clever deduction mechanism for affiliations

Very attractive illustrations nicely fitting the topic

Compares to:

Werewolves of Millers Hollow and other deduction games on secret affiliations

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0