As the leaves change colours 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 fans, here’s your ultimate guide to crafting a night filled with thrills, chills, and unforgettable gaming fun.
Creating a frightful Halloween vibe is key!
Make sure the event is as smooth as a potion brew by organizing your time:
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!
Amp up the fun with these little touches:
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.
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!
Is Trick or Treating all done and they still have some energy? Or are you looking for activities for a family Halloween party? Why not check out one of these games to keep everyone entertained!
Ghost Blitz Junior
Age: 4+ / Players: 2-6 / Duration: < 15 minutes
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.
EXIT Kids – Midnight Spooktacular
Age: 5+ / Players: 1-4 / Duration: 15-30 minutes
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!
ICECOOL Wizards
Age: 6+ / Players 2-4 / Duration: 15-30 minutes
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.
Casting Shadows
Age: 12+ / Players: 2-4 / Duration: 45-60 minutes
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 – if you’re lucky – unlock your Shadow Form, all in the quest to become the ultimate Shadow Caster. The last player standing after this supernatural showdown wins the game!
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.
Trust no one.
Monopoly Deal: Nightmare Before Christmas
Age: 8+ / Players: 2-5 / Duration: 15-30 minutes
Take on the role of Jack Skellington, Sally, Zero, Oogie Boogie, or Lock, Shock, & Barrel. Each has a haunted special ability to use throughout the game!
Collect Creepy Properties – Under the Bed! Santa’s House! Sally’s Alley! The first player to collect 3 sets of properties wins!
Mysterium
Age: 10+ / Players: 2-7 / Duration: 30-45 minutes
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.
Mystic Moon
Age: 8+ / Players: 2-4 / Duration: 60-90 minutes
The Mystic Moon is rising, and that means it’s peak season to brew potions (and stir up a little mischief). Forage ingredients in the moonlit garden, barter with the mysterious Elder Witch, and arrange puzzles of Ingredients in your bubbling cauldron as you prove your prowess to the stars. But witches should beware…
Your rivals may unleash mischievous frogs to snatch your ingredients or poisonous mushrooms to sabotage your brew, because when the moon completes its final cycle, only one witch will shine brightest.
Unlock! Short Adventures – The Birmingham Murder
Age: 10+ / Players: 1-6 / Duration: 30-45 minutes
1920s Birmingham. Your gang member Rick has been murdered, and your Boss wants answers before the police — or a rival gang — get involved. As David Stevenson, team up with your partner Robert to investigate the crime, question informants, and gather clues across the city’s underworld.
This Unlock! Short Adventures title delivers a full cooperative escape-room experience. Using the free companion app for sound, timing, and hints, you’ll solve puzzles, crack codes, and ultimately choose who to accuse — multiple suspects mean the ending is up to you.
Viva Catrina
Age: 8+ / Players: 2-6 / Duration: 15-30 minutes
Immerse yourself in the festive and colorful atmosphere of Mexico’s Día de los Muertos, where traditions, joyful spirits, and fantastical creatures come together to honor the departed under the watchful eye of La Catrina.
Hosting a Halloween party? Check out these frightfully fun games that will keep your guests laughing all night long.
One Night Ultimate Vampire
Age: 8+ / Players: 3+ / Duration: < 15 minutes
In One Night Ultimate Vampire, the sun has just set, and vampires have descended on your sleepy little town, slowly turning the villagers into even more vampires. Fortunately, the village has several residents with special powers, with most willing to help eliminate this fanged menace!
Flip 7 – The Nightmare Before Christmas
Age: 8+ / Players: 3+ / Duration: 15-30 minutes
In this press-your-luck card game, you are invited to join Jack Skellington and the citizens of Halloweentown as they plan their spine-chilling takeover of Christmas. You score points based on the presents on the cards in front of you. The more presents on a card, the more valuable a card is… Beware, though, there are more copies of that card in the deck! If you ever draw a second card with the same number of presents as one already in your line, you bust and are out of the round, scoring nothing.
Boxtop Pinball – Haunted House
Age: 8+ / Players: 1-4 / Duration: 15-30 minutes
Get ready to flick your dice, and roll to victory in this spooky game of haunted house pinball! Take down monsters, uncover hidden clues, and dodge trap doors as you try to rack up as many points as you can.
The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow – Limited Edition 25 Years
Age: 8+ / Players: 8-18 / Duration: 30-45 minutes
To celebrate the anniversary of the most famous hidden-role game, discover the new 25th Anniversary Special Edition box. 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. Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow – 25th Anniversary Special Edition brings together 28 characters: the iconic roles you’ve loved playing throughout your games of the base game and its expansions. But it also includes 4 new roles, whose unique powers will further enrich your games, making them even more unpredictable and full of twists and turns.
Skull
Age: 10+ / Players: 3-6 / Duration: 15-30 minutes
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!
Ghost Blitz
Age: 8+ / Players: 2-8 / Duration: 15-30 minutes
Ghost Blitz is chaos in the best possible way.
Five wooden shapes sit in the middle of the table, each a different color. Flip a card showing two shapes in two colors, and your brain has milliseconds to work out one thing: which item do you grab? Sounds easy. It’s not. Hands fly, brains freeze, and half the fun is watching everyone lunge for the wrong thing at once. Fastest — and smartest — hand wins the card. Most cards at the end wins the game.
Simple rules, ruthless reflexes. Perfect for game night.
Ghost Blitz Mini
Age: 8+ / Players: 2-8 / Duration: 15-30 minutes
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.
Zombie Burrito
Age: 7+ / Players: 2-6 / Duration: 15-30 minutes
A Dodgeball card game where survivors team up against zombies. So, clear some space and put away the antiques, because you’ve never played a card game quite like this before.
Looking for something a little scarier? These games are sure to thrill!
Heredity
Age: 14+ / Players: 1-4 / Duration: 120-180 minutes
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.
Final Girl
Age: 14+ / Players: 1 / Duration: 45-60 minutes
Ever wanted to star in your own horror movie? Now’s your chance! In Final Girl, YOU become the heroine of the story. This is a solo game unlike any other that brings many horror movie tropes to life using the innovative, and endlessly replayable, Feature Film Game System. Every second counts as you manage your time and actions in the game. One mistake could mean your death! Will you try to save other victims? Or search for items to help you destroy the killer? Play cards, roll dice, and feel the exhilaration and the dread in every moment! Inside this box, you will have everything you need to play!
Nightmare Before Christmas
Age: 10+ / Players: 2-6 / Duration: 30-45 minutes
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!
For fans of the popular Lovecraftian universe, these titles are sure to thrill.
Arkham Horror Lovecraft Letter
Age: 14+ / Players: 2-6 / Duration: 30-45 minutes
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?
Arkham Horror LCG – Core Set
Age: 14+ / Players: 1-4 / Duration: 90-120 minutes
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…
Arkham Horror the Roleplaying Game – Hungering Abyss
Age: 14+ / Players: 2-5 / Duration: >120 minutes
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.
Call of Cthulhu: Starter Set
Age: 14+ / Players: 2+ / Duration: >120 minutes
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! Looking for more Call of Cthulhu? There are tons of adventures awaiting you!
Cthulhu Death May Die
Age: 14+ / Players: 1-5 / Duration: 90-120 minutes
An Elder God, a being adrift in a different dimension, has reached out into their minds, giving them the knowledge necessary to awaken it and bring it into our own world, unleashing its hellish powers on the unsuspecting populace. Too late did the Investigators find out about it. The final ritual has begun. But with a little luck, the god might just be vulnerable for a moment after being summoned.
Unfathomable
Age: 14+ / Players: 3-6 / Duration: 120-180 minutes
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.
Looking for an extra spooky challenge? These games won’t disappoint!
Betrayal at House on the Hill (3rd Edition)
Age: 12+ / Players: 3-6 / Duration: 60-90 minutes
The House on the Hill still sits abandoned, and fearless group of explorers has been drawn to the house to discover its dark secrets. Immerse yourself in the narrative gameplay as you take on the role of one of those explorers. The co-operative board game Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition includes fifty haunts and dozens of danger-filled rooms that will terrify even the strongest among you. At first you’ll work together, but beware…one explorer will betray the others and then the haunt begins.
Dreadful Meadows
Age: 13+ / Players: 1-4 / Duration: 30-45 minutes
Welcome to Dreadful Meadows – a land of tricks and treats, where kooky Confectioners compete to be this season’s sweetest supplier!
You play a Confectioner, sowing and growing sinister seeds to create the most bountiful candy crops, through crafty candy patch placement. As rounds progress, cultivating your candy crops allows for exciting expansion and experimentation! Conjure up a crew of magic Sugar Sprites who can lend a hand with their abnormal abilities. As you prosper, summon your horrid Harvesters to intensify turnover, or utilize your Candy to discover new Concoctions.
Dreadful Meadows: Tricks for Treats Expansion
Age: 13+ / Players: 2-4 / Duration: 30-45 minutes
For those Confectioners who like to play a tad on the salty side! This expansion offers three interchangeable game modes that will create chaos among those who dare to play them!
Fury of Dracula
Age: 14+ / Players: 2-5 / Duration: >120 minutes
Fury of Dracula is a one-versus-many deduction game inspired by Bram Stoker’s classic novel: Dracula. One player controls Dracula and up to four players assume the roles of his hunters. During the game, Dracula will attempt to elude the hunters as he spawns new vampires across Europe, while the hunters try to find and destroy Dracula, thereby ending his reign of terror.
