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Mistfall

A cooperative fantasy adventure with growing hero decks, randomized encounters and monsters that run themselves.

Mistfall is a fully cooperative fantasy adventure where you pick a hero, take a fixed starting deck of equipment and power cards, and walk into a map full of monsters. Alongside your basic deck, each hero has a pool of advanced abilities you add as you go, so your character grows into your own version of them. The board is built differently every time, encounters and enemies are randomized, and the monsters run on a simple but sturdy AI instead of a game master. It works as a solo challenge or with up to three friends, and the difficulty bites in either case. Expect a long evening of tough choices, close calls and a real sense of having earned the win.

Hero decks that grow with new abilitiesModular board and randomized encountersMonster AI replaces a game master

Who it's for

You want a cooperative fantasy game that works well solo or as a pair, with deck-building flavor and a real challenge.

Not for you if…

You want something short or forgiving. Setup is fiddly, the game takes about two hours and it can beat you.

Vibe's take

Tense and tactical. You play the same few cards over and over, so each upgrade feels like real progress, and every fight asks whether to push on or fall back.

#3,574 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2015 · 11 years ago

older than 63% of games

In 4,178 collections

collected more than 51% of games

1–4 players · ages 14+

Best with 2

about 120 min

longer than 87% of games · typical 30–90 min

Complexity: heavy

For experienced groups · 4.0 out of 5 · heavier than 97%

Opinions: divided

Some love it, others really don’t

Language: lots of text

Lots of text, fluency helps

Play style: cooperative · solo too

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