Damnation: The Gothic Game
A Gothic Horror Battle Royale for 2 - 8 players
Will you survive the night?
Damnation: The Gothic Game is a 2 - 8 player horror board game with one simple goal - to be the last surviving player.
The game takes place in Dracula’s Castle where a cast of victorian era inspired villains must face off in a brutal battle royale.
The return of a classic
History of the Gothic Game
The Gothic Game was invented in 1966 by Robert Wynne-Simmons and Nigel Andrews on a lazy weekend in Surrey, England, and was first played later that year in the basement of a convent in Assisi, Italy. Using the board design of a crumbling castle, with rooms and squared corridors, it looked back to games such as Cluedo, and forwards towards role-playing games, such as Dungeons and Dragons.
It is a game of elimination, like Monopoly, but much faster, and set in a dangerous environment where fortunes can suddenly change and death lurks around each corner.
With its “gothic” content, and the possibility of “murder” by many different means, it openly gives full rein to the hidden aggression behind the competitiveness of all board games, and allows the players to enact their own nightmares. In the end such obvious savagery produces less spite and more laughter.
- Taken from the website of Robert Wynne-Simmons, co-creator of The Gothic Game.
