Your Ultimate Guide to a Halloween Board Game Night! 🎃👻
Emily Bradshaw
08 Oct 2025
As the leaves turn crisp and the nights grow colder, check out our ultimate guide to crafting a spooky board game night to celebrate Halloween!
2 players
Adults
Arkham Horror
Bananagrams
Big Groups
Call of Cthulhu
Casting Shadows
Don't Go In There
Escape the Dark Castle
EXIT
Family
Final Girl
Friends
Games
Ghost Blitz
Here to Slay
ICECOOL
Kids
Love Letter
Mysterium
Nightmare Before Christmas
Sally Face
Seasonal Favorites
Skull
Stranger Things – Attack of the Mind Flayer
Survive Until Daylight
Teens
Unfathomable
Unlock!
Werewolves of Miller's Hollow (The)
Who's playing?
Zombicide
As the leaves turn crisp and the nights grow colder, there’s no better way to celebrate Halloween than with a spooky board game night! Whether you’re hosting friends, family, or fellow tabletop enthusiasts, here’s your ultimate guide to crafting a night filled with thrills, chills, and unforgettable gaming fun.
Set the Mood: Spookify Your Space
Creating the ultimate Halloween vibe is key!
Decorations: Add cobwebs, spooky lighting (think candles or orange string lights), mini pumpkins, and ghostly tablecloths.
Soundtrack: Curate a playlist of eerie tunes or ambient spooky sounds to play softly in the background.
Snacks: Serve creepy-themed treats like gummy worms, “witches’ brew” punch, or coffin-shaped cookies. Bonus points for game-themed snacks (e.g., meeple cookies or dice cupcakes).
Plan the Flow of the Night
Make sure the event is as smooth as a potion brew by organizing your time:
Game Teaching: Choose games appropriate for your group’s experience level or send out short tutorial videos before the event.
Timing: Kick off with a shorter game to warm up, then dive into something longer. Allow room for breaks to refresh.
Rotations: For larger groups, have multiple game tables with a mix of board/card games so everyone stays engaged.
Dress the Part
Get everyone into the spooky spirit with costumes. Add extra flavour by getting inspiration from your planned games. Some examples include investigators from Arkham Horror, infamous Disney villains, and characters from Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow. Don’t forget a prize for the best costume!
Add Halloween-Themed Extras
Amp up the fun with these little touches:
Themed invitations: Set the tone early with creepy invites in advance (digital or hand-delivered scrolls!).
Prizes or Trophies: Give out mini prizes for best strategist, most heroic survivor, or even “most cursed gameplay.”
Photo Booth: Set up a Halloween-themed photo area for guests to capture the night’s memories.
Don’t Forget Post-Game Cleanup
The scariest part of any game night can be the mess, so prepare ahead. Have bags ready for trash and designate a space for game components to avoid missing pieces. If guests are willing, enlist a few helping hands for easy cleanup.
And now, for the games!
Depending on your mood or your group, you will be looking to play different types of games. We’ve got you covered here too. Check out our full Halloween game guide for every type of player!
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Is Trick or Treating all done and they still have some energy? Or are you looking for activities for a kids’ Halloween party? Why not check out one of these kids’ games to keep them entertained!
It’s a Ghost Blitz… Blitz!
What could be spookier for Halloween than ghosties? We’ve got a selection of Ghost Blitz titles that you and the kiddoes will love this Halloween!
Children as young as four years old can play this quick-reaction game, grabbing the right object at the right time. Various animals are waiting in the middle of the table. The cards show three of them in different colors. The objective is to grab whatever comes up in its original color.
Ghost Blitz is a lightning-fast reaction game which is won by the player with the quickest hands and mind. Each card flipped over is a new mini brain game to solve. This is a new kind of brain training. Lightning-fast reflexes is the key – but you also must be nimble of mind. Can you find the figure that is hiding on each of the 60 cards? Which player is the quickest to solve the puzzle, and grab the correct object before the others can react? Be quick but don’t grab the wrong object.
Ghost Blitz Mini is a brilliant reaction game in which quick-wittedness and the right action are crucial. Five large wooden items in five colors stand in the middle of the table. In each round, players turn over one card that shows two items in two different colors. Now the players have to realize as quick as lightning which item to look for. If neither figure is depicted in its original color, you have to grab the item whose shape or color cannot be found on the card. But if an item is depicted in its original color, this item has to be grabbed. If you are right, you win the card. The player with the most cards in the end wins.
Ghost Blitz 2 The new version of Ghost Blitz with different items: five wooden items sit on the table waiting to be caught: a white female ghost, a green frog, a grey bathtub, a blue hairbrush, and a red bath towel. Each card in the deck shows pictures of two objects, with one or both objects colored the wrong way. With all players playing at the same time, someone reveals a card, then players grab for the “right” object but which object is right?
Legend has it that there’s a fabulous treasure hiding somewhere inside the old mansion down the road, but to find it you’ll need the help of the resident ghost, Captain Echo. Mysterium Kids is a cooperative game, where players take turns playing Captain Echo, who communicates only through an enchanted tambourine. His goal is to help other players guess the right card among five choices. Will you guess the right sound?
ICECOOL Wizards is a flicking game in which you explore the penguin school of magic, study to become a great wizard, and finally prove your skills by completing challenging exams! Players take turns flicking their penguin figures around the board and collecting lesson cards that will provide magic points at the game’s end. Lesson cards can also be traded in for exam cards that provide even more magic points or used as spells for special abilities. At the end of the game, the player with the most magic points wins.
There is a costume party at Castle Shudderstone – but only the scariest characters are allowed to take part in this monster of all parties. Solve the tricky riddles set by the spooky friends and help put together Frankengirl Vicky’s fabulous costume! What are you waiting for? Solve these spooky riddles together!
Family Games
Keep the whole family frightfully entertained with these titles, perfect for any spooktacular family gathering.
Mysterium puts your fortune-telling skills to the test in a spellbinding game of intrigue and suspense. In this cooperative game, you’ll join forces with other players to discover the identity of a murderer. Can you decipher the visions shared with you by the ghost? Psychic costumes and crystal balls are not included.
Unlock! Epic Adventures immerses your team in three death-defying scenarios. The Seventh Screening dares you to escape “The Werewolf’s Final Night” unscathed and unharmed. Dragon’s Seven Tests examines your collective knowledge and mastery of Master Li’s inscrutable teachings. While Mission #7 challenges your team to uncover the dastardly mole that’s infiltrated EAGLE. Together, you must scour each scene, combine clues, and crack mind-bending riddles using only your cards and a companion app.
Here to Slay Age: 14+ / Players: 2-6 / Duration: 45-60 minutes
Here to Slay is a competitive role-playing fantasy strategy card game about heroes and monsters (and, of course, sabotage!) Assemble a full party of heroes, outwit your rivals, slay savage monsters, and crush your opponents on the way to victory! But don’t let your guard down because enemies are watching at every turn, and your friends will seize every opportunity to sabotage you and take the glory for themselves.
Explore a dark, enchanting world and battle your opponents in this 2-4 player turn-based competitive strategic board game. Throughout the game, you’ll collect resources, learn new spells, summon a companion, and unlock your Shadow Form, all in the quest to become the ultimate Shadow Caster. The last player standing after the supernatural showdown wins the game!
You play as meddling kid wandering too far into a creepy haunted house. You knew you shouldn’t touch anything, but like any protagonist in a horror story, your curiosity got the best of you and now you’ve accidentally awoken an evil presence in the house. You’ll have to undo the curse to escape with your sanity or forever be haunted!
Escape the Dark Castle is a simple, cooperative game of retro-atmospheric adventure. Players take on the roles of prisoners, wrongfully incarcerated in the depths of The Dark Castle. Embarking on a desperate quest to escape, the players must work together to overcome the castle’s many horrors, traps, and challenges.
Party Games
Hosting a Halloween party? Check out these frightfully fun games that will keep your guests laughing all night long.
Bananagrams: Halloween Party features mayhem inducing Trick-or-Treat action tiles that add a spooky and energetic twist to the Party Edition of the Classic game! Racing to complete word grids, players are faced with tricky challenges and sweet treats—from flapping around the table like a bat, to stealing tiles, and swapping places! Bananagrams Halloween Party is a wicked fun word game that’s even battier than before!
Bloodthirsty werewolves terrorize your village! In this game of suspicion and intrigue, you could be the sheriff, the hunter, the innocent, or maybe even a ravenous werewolf! While the villagers rule by day, the werewolves own the night. Guess who lives? Guess who dies? The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow is an immersive game that brings life (or death?) to any party.
Skull is a fast paced and tense bluffing game that subtly mixes risk-taking and tactical decisions. Reveal as many flower cards as possible, while trying to “pass” your Skull card without getting caught by opponents. A feat that’s a lot easier said than done! This game is simple to learn, but dangerously hard to win!
Horror Classics
Looking for something a little scarier? These games are sure to thrill!
It’s the apocalypse! Zombies are everywhere. There are many sorts of them: from the weak dog walking granny to the terrible beast that no longer proves Darwin’s theory. There are also looting raiders. And guess who was chosen to save the night? You!
Far to the north, the city of Wintergrad had been a haven in the cold. But now, it’s not just the icy wind that bites. Necromancers and zombies have besieged the town. Only the few remaining stalwart Survivors can turn the tide.
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of “Heredity“, a cooperative narrative game that transports you to a post-apocalyptic world over five thrilling campaign chapters. In “Heredity“, you have the chance to play the role of a family facing a world in ruins. Your choices, decisions and ingenuity will determine the fate of your characters and shape the outcome of their adventure. Each chapter is a new stage in their journey, where the immediate impact of your actions will reverberate throughout the story and the fates of your characters.
This game is only available in French at asmodee Canada.
Summer camp turns deadly in The Happy Trails Horror. Produced by Evan Derrick, this Feature Film box stars Hans – The Butcher, who murders and feasts on unsuspecting campers. When an unlikely heroine emerges, will it be enough to stop the killing? The Core Box, when combined with one of our Feature Film Boxes, has everything you need to play the game. Final Girl is a solitaire-only (single-player) board game that puts you in the shoes of a female protagonist fighting against a slasher. It uses iconic horror movie tropes, and each Feature Film box introduces a new Killer and a unique Location.
This Feature Film box is not playable by itself and requires you to also own the Core Box.
Lovecraft Chtulhuverse
For fans of the popular Lovecraftian universe, these titles are sure to thrill.
Step into the eerie town of Arkham with Arkham Horror Lovecraft Letter™, a chilling twist on the classic deduction card game. Delve into the madness of the Lovecraftian universe as you face eldritch horrors and uncover allies tainted with madness in this gripping battle of wits. Can you maintain your sanity and outwit Cthulhu, or will you succumb to the creeping darkness that lurks within?
The boundaries between worlds have drawn perilously thin. Dark forces work in the shadows and call upon unspeakable horrors, strange happenings are discovered all throughout the city of Arkham, Massachusetts, and behind it all an Ancient One manipulates everything from beyond the veil. It is time to revisit that which started it all…
Players take on the role of investigators of mysteries, uncovering dark secrets, encountering strange monsters, and thwarting sinister cults. Together, you and your friends create and develop a story in which each of your characters plays a leading role, which could be foiling some dastardly plot or stopping horrors from beyond space and time!
The year is 1913. The steamship SS Atlantica is two days out from port on its voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Its unsuspecting passengers fully anticipated a calm journey to Boston, Massachusetts, with nothing out of the ordinary to look forward to. However, strange nightmares plague the minds of the people aboard the ship every night; rumors circulate of dark shapes following closely behind the ship just beneath the waves; and tensions rise when a body is discovered in the ship’s chapel, signs of a strange ritual littered around the corpse.
An ancient force has come to the city of Arkham that threatens to consume everything in Hungering Abyss, a starter set in the world of Arkham Horror. In this all-in-one box up to five players take on the role of talented and bold investigators as they try to unravel the mystery behind empty graveyards and the sense of lurking dread that has fallen over the city of Arkham in the height of the 1920s. Whether you are brand new to collaborative storytelling table-top games or a veteran role-player, this learn-as-you-play adventure is an excellent way to get a feel for both roleplaying games and the unique Dynamic Pool System.
Games Based on Horror Movies, TV Series, or Video Games
Chills and thrills are guaranteed with these titles that are perfect for pop culture fans!
Rediscover a Halloween classic! In Nightmare Before Christmas, you’ll play one of the iconic movie characters, Jack, Sally, Santa Claus, Oogie Boogie, Dr. Finkelstein or The Mayor and, each with a favourite holiday. Over 4 rounds, play cards to collect the most “Holiday tokens.” Place your cards carefully in the right locations to take over the holidays and secure your victory!
The town of Hawkins is under siege from the Upside Down. Hawkins, Indiana seems like an average town. However, underneath the exterior lurks a secret. The Hawkins National Laboratory has been doing experiments that have unleashed the horrors of the Upside Down. It’s up to the kids in the town to save it. In Stranger Things: Upside Down, players take on the role of the kids of Hawkins who are trying to stop the operatives of the Hawkins National Laboratory and the evils from the Upside Down.
The cooperative tabletop game based on the massive award-winning video game. Unravel the mysteries with your friends as you explore the Addison Apartments before the corruption takes over. Get ready to uncover the secrets and unveil the truth! Each chapter is a unique storyline with events and characters that echo and expand upon the video game. Players must solve mysteries, avoid cops and ghosts, and prevent the Red Eyed Demon from spreading corruption while advancing through the story.
Accessories
For fans of roleplaying games, these accessories are sure to please!
A new addition to this spooky season is the Halloween Haunt Advent Calendar which includes all the accessories you need to play! Countdown the 10 days to Halloween with the official D&D advent calendar that includes a dice tray, a custom D&D inclusion dice set, a D&D glow in the dark die, an exclusive metal d20, and a dice bag to carry your loot!
This huge set shaped like a coffin is perfect for display and comes with FOUR full sets of dice! Each calendar includes a mini dice set, two exclusive resin sets, two assorted resin sets, a Halloween themed dice bag, and a metal d20 for the final day!
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