Ghoulish & Ghostly Halloween Board Games You Can Play Online
Happy Halloween Tabletopers! This year we wanted to put together a list of 20 of our favorite & hauntingly epic games to play on Tabletop Simulator this October! We hope you enjoy getting into the spooky season with us by trying out all of these eerie and mysterious games!
About: Zombicide is a collaborative board game in which players take the role of a survivor – each with unique abilities – and harness both their skills and the power of teamwork against the hordes of unthinking undead! Using unique and clever mechanics, Zombicide is designed as a fully cooperative game where no player has to play as the zombies.
Each player controls between one (for 6 players) and four (solo game) survivors, humans trapped in a zombie-infested town. In fact, “survivors” quickly change to “hunters” to smash zombies through and through. However, the team must constantly maintain a balance between survival and slaughter, for as the zombicide continues, the Danger Level increases, and the infected grow in numbers. Any misstep can turn to disaster.
Zombicide is a fun and easy game with cool miniatures in an archetypical, popular and comics-inspired environment. Ambiance is constantly balanced between “beat’em up” and “survival horror” as survivors keep switching from prey to predators. Humor and gloom happily marry in a zombie-fest.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Surviving a Zombie apocalypse!
Type: A “beat’em up” and “survival horror”, collaborative board game
Number of Players: 1-6 players
Age: 14+
Time To Play: 60+ minutes
Tabletop Simulator DLC: Play Zombicide Now On TTS!
Official Website: zombicide.com
About: One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a fast-paced game for 3-10 players where everyone is dealt a secret role. Many of these roles have special abilities that will aid that player in gaining information. In the course of only one night and the following morning, the players will determine who among them is a werewolf...hopefully.
One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a condensed version of the party game Ultimate Werewolf that does not require a moderator. There's no elimination, and each game lasts about 10 minutes.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Discovering who the secret werewolf is in your group!
Type: Party game
Number of Players: 3 - 10 players
Age: 13+
Time To Play: 10 minutes
Tabletop Simulator DLC:: Play One Night Ultimate Werewolf Now On TTS!
Official Website: beziergames.com
About: The postcards in every local drug store read, "Welcome to Fabulous Farmingdale!", an ad campaign that was the brainchild of Mayor Hernandez (who coincidentally employed his wife's public relations firm to market their community). But right now, things are far from fabulous in Farmingdale and, for once, everyone isn't blaming the Mayor. Some kind of virus or poison is turning ordinary people into vicious, zombie-like killers. It is not clear how the disease spreads (though it seems that physical contact is certainly one way), but it is obvious what the illness does to its victims.
These undead, nicknamed "Zeds" from the local newscasts as the acronym for "Zombie Epidemic Disease," are now converging on your corner of the world around Farmingdale. As best you can tell, you have been left to your own devices to stop them while the National Guard organizes a relief column, but that could take days, perhaps weeks, for them to fight their way to you and until then, what can you do?
With little choice between survival and a gruesome (un)death, you realize that you must coordinate the defense of the town of Farmingdale and its surrounding villages. You must lead the good citizens and emerging heroes of these communities to halt the Zeds' advances by (re)killing them, attempt to coordinate the discovery of a cure to this vile scourge, and preserve as much of the area and as many of its inhabitants as possible. There's no time to lose...
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Surviving a Zombie Epidemic Disease!
Type: Cooperative States of Siege™ board game
Time To Play: 90-120 minutes
Number of Players: 1 - 5 players
Age: 14+
Tabletop Simulator DLC: Play Dawn of the Zeds Now On TTS!
Official Website: victorypointgames.com
About: Dracula has invited all the townsfolk for dinner (and maybe a few for dessert), but some monsters are being a pain in the neck and have crashed the party: now, everything is at stake… Dance with other guests, guess their unique identities, and when you’ve worked out who everyone is, accuse them all to win the game!
Dance with other guests, guess their unique identities, and when you’ve worked out who everyone is, accuse them all to win the game! The first in the Masquerade series, Dracula’s Feast is a logical deduction game for 4-8 players. Suitable for ages 10 and up, it plays in 10-15 minutes. -- Jellybean Games Website
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: A supernatural dinner with Dracula!
Type: Deduction game
Time To Play: 10-15 minutes
Number of Players: 4-8 players
Age: 10+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Dracula's Feast Now On TTS!
Official Website: jellybean.games
About: Lonely Undead is a versatile board game for 1-4 players who wish to experience awesomeness through the eyes of the Undead! In Lonely Undead you assume the role of a recently turned Z (Zombie) who is lost, confused, and...lonely. Your main goal is to make friends. How does a Z make friends? Well, by biting them, infecting them, and turning them into one of their own. Help your Z (and maybe other Zs) make friends by causing a ruckus, foiling other's plans, and biting the locals in this new fun and unique type of zombie game. Bite...Some...People! - Dead Lemon Games Website
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Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Transform into a zombie and navigate the world trying to make friends.
Type: Cooperative and solo strategic adventure game
Time To Play: 60-90 minutes
Number of Players: 1-4 players
Age: 14+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Lonely Undead Now On TTS!
Official Website: deadlemongames.com
About: Survive nine waves of brutal villains from The Walking Dead, including The Governor, Negan, and unending hordes of walkers. Will you work to survive as a group, or throw your friends to the walkers to gain the most points for yourself. Can you make it as far as Rick and the Survivors?
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Surviving the walking dead
Type: Semi-cooperative survival card game
Time To Play: 20 - 45 minutes
Number of Players: 2 - 5 players
Age: 12+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play The Walking Dead: Something to Fear Now On TTS!
Official Website: skybound.com
About: SKEPTICS is a cooperative, dice rolling game, where players explore potentially haunted locations to prove the existence of ghosts.1-4 players take on the role of paranormal Investigators gathering evidence of the paranormal.
Investigators race against the clock exploring rooms and rolling dice to match icon sets to Search, Reveal, and Solve Clues. Each Clue will lead Investigators one step closer to revealing the Ghost. Environment Cards are drawn every hour, which may have hazards and conditions that will impede the Investigators’ progress. Investigators win if the existence of the Ghost can be proven in time, but investigators fail if time runs out.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Ghost hunting investigations!
Type: Cooperative, dice rolling game
Time To Play: 1 hour
Number of Players: 1-4 players
Age: 14+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play SKEPTICS Now On TTS!
Official Website: usiakgames.com
About: The Mummy’s curse has brought all the exhibits to life and they’ve crashed the Museum of Unnatural History’s annual masquerade ball! Night of the Mummy is a 20-minute game of hidden roles and logical deduction for 4-8 players aged 10 and up. Each player takes on the role of a classic monster at a masquerade party - identify and expose everyone else to break the curse and escape!
A standalone expansion to Dracula’s Feast: New Blood, Night of the Mummy improves everything you loved about the original - more roles, unique interactions, and a brand new mechanism: some characters hide while dancing, not revealing their roles to other players! Best of all, combine it with Dracula’s Feast! Incorporate roles from either game into the other for even greater replayability! -BGG Description
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: A Mummy’s curse wreaking havoc at a masquerade ball!
Type: Logical deduction game
Number of Players: 4-8 players
Age: 10+
Time To Play: 15-20 minutes
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Night of the Mummy Now On TTS!
Official Website: jellybean.games
About: Young Richie has been kidnapped, taken into a rural farmhouse that doubles as the Halloween haunted house “Worlds of Terrors,” ran and inhabited by the Bennert family. Richie’s brother, sister, mother and father are en route via the family station wagon, equipped with unimpressive weapons quickly gathered from their suburban home. They all share the same feeling: it’s going to be a long night.
The Ghosts Betwixt is a comedic horror dungeon crawler set in 1990s Midwestern suburbia, wrapped around a multi-layered mystery. Why Richie? What are the Bennerts up to? What does Worlds of Terror have to do with the kidnapping? There’s only one way to find out – play Story Mission 1!
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: A multi-layered mystery set in a haunted farmhouse!
Type: Cooperative horror dungeon crawler
Number of Players: 1-4 players
Age: 14+
Time To Play: 90–180 minutes
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play The Ghosts Betwixt Now On TTS!
Official Website: theghostsbetwixt.com
About: In deep dark we live. It cold, it damp, but home to fancy emerald, yummy worms, and other lovely shiny bits. Big Boss say first goblin who collect set of shiny bits is BEST goblin. All goblin want help Big Boss. Me know goblin secret though. Best goblin always get what Big Boss want, because best goblin always cheat!
Goblin Teeth is a dice game for 2-5 players. You play as a goblin, bidding on valuable goblin items with goblin dice and using goblin Cheat cards from your goblin hand to gain advantages over the other goblin players. The round ends when everyone has placed all of their dice; each Item is awarded to the goblin who bid the most for it. Be the first to complete an Offering for the Big Boss to win! If, at the end of a round, a player has acquired all of the Items to complete any one of the 3 Offering cards (6-Item, A, or B), the game ends and they win! - Jellybean Games Website
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Play as a greedy goblin!
Type: Dice game
Time To Play: 15–20 minutes
Number of Players: 2-5 players
Age: 10+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Goblin Teeth Now On TTS!
Official Website: jellybean.games
About: The Australian Bush is a dangerous place at night. And as if spiders and snakes weren't enough, another horror is on the loose: Drop Bears infest the dark - Hideous koala-like beasts dropping from gum trees, eager to consume human flesh.
This is where the game drops you in, an inexperienced group of tourist campers ventured into the night. Your objective: Survive until dawn.
Drop Bears is a cooperative game where the Campers have to carefully choose actions every turn to stay alive, while the whole Australian Bush is on a hunt for them. The group can choose of several different options such as:
Explore and Run, allowing the Campers to place new map tiles and attempt to keep the lurking hunger beasts at arm's length (at bay, a distance).
Definitely, they will need to Rest and Heal, which will give them a chance to patch up and recoup their most essential resources.
Finally, Search and Endeavour will hopefully lead them to find much-needed survival resources.
All these are tools to ensure as many campers as possible survive until dawn. While doing so, the game drops the hideous creatures right on them, attacking and terrorizing the Campers in every turn.
Even the very landscape and environment will batter the poor Campers – They can become severely wounded; this will surely hamper their chance for survival. Each time a camper is eaten, that player will select another camper from those available, but every death brings the Drop Bears closer to victory, so don't let your humans die in vain. With no weapons, campers must band together, scavenge gear and use their wits if they ever hope to survive until dawn.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: A horror game where you must survive the Drop Bears that infest the dark - Hideous koala-like beasts dropping from gum trees, eager to consume human flesh.
Type: Tabletop survival game
Time To Play: 30-45 minutes
Number of Players: 1-4 players
Age: 15+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Drop Bears Now On TTS!
Official Website: platypusindustries.com
About: Goblin Cave is an asymmetrical team-based tactics game featuring strategic, card-based combat driven by unique character abilities and player decisions. Each player takes control of two unique characters, drawing cards with powerful abilities and moving freely around the board. Players will control tactical locations, place traps, launch fireballs, destroy walls, teleport across pits, climb ledges, sling arrows, swing great-axes, steal relics, and much, much more!
Each team of players has their own win conditions and will go toe-to-toe with their opponents to achieve them through fast-paced strategy-fueled combat. Adventurers traverse the Goblins’ cave in order to steal Relics—objects of great arcane power. Goblins must defend their homes from the greedy invaders who are trying to steal their relics, navigating the cave through tunnels only they can use! Each team is comprised of unique characters with rich lore and powerful specialized abilities, not unlike a board game version of a MOBA (like League of Legends) or hero shooter (like Overwatch or Apex Legends).
Players control two characters simultaneously. On a player’s turn, they draw an ability card from each character's ability deck, roll a die for each character’s movement, then move and use an ability card for each character, in any order they wish. The game ends either when all characters on a team are incapacitated when the Adventurers escape with a relic, or when 10 rounds have passed. With 10 playable characters, multiple cave maps, and several planned expansions, Goblin Cave offers a great deal of replayability and long-term support.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Stealing relics from Goblins!
Type: Team-based tactics game
Time To Play: 60-120 minutes
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Age: 13+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Goblin Cave Now On TTS!
Official Website: actionfiction.com
About: The Looking Glass has shattered, madness is being drained from the inhabitants, and war has come to Wonderland. Alice, Mad Hatter, Red Queen, and Jabberwock must gather all that they can while playing nice at the Hatter's Tea Party before going to battle in Wonderland's War!
In this Drafting, Bag Building, Area Control game 2-5 players take the role as a Faction Leader who has been invited to the Hatter's Tea Party. Drink tea and eat cake as you move around the table drafting cards to gather your forces, build your castles, Upgrade your Leader, and recruit Wonderlandians to your cause. But one must be careful, as shards of the Looking Glass are spread throughout Wonderland. Once all the plates are empty, the Tea Party is over and war begins.
Use the forces you gathered and Wonderlandians to battle your enemies in familiar Locations, but make sure not to draw your Shard Chips or your castles will fall and you will be out of the fight. Can you muster enough strength to win the battle or will you just try to gain Region Bonuses for set scoring throughout the game instead?
After all the battles have been fought, a truce is called and everyone meets back at the Tea Party to plot their moves for the next fight. After 3 rounds, the Faction with the most points will be crowned as the new Leader of Wonderland!
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Creepy Alice In Wonderland Theme!
Type: Drafting, bag building, area control game
Time To Play: 75- 90 minutes
Number of Players: 2-5 players
Age: 13+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Wonderland's War Now On TTS!
Official Website: skybound.com
About: Set in an original dark-fantasy world, Court of the Dead: Dark Harvest, is a strategic bidding game for 3-6 players, in which each player is vying for power in the Court of the Dead and struggling to save as many souls as possible from annihilation in the Celestial War.
Scheme against your opponents to win favor in the court and save the most souls from annihilation in the Celestial War. A unique 2-currency bidding system creates layered strategic gameplay. Multiple paths to victory allow players to win through cooperation or treachery.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Raise the dead with spooky gameplay!
Type: Dark-fantasy bidding game
Time To Play: 30 – 45 minutes
Number of Players: 3-6 players
Age: 12+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Court of the Dead: Dark Harvest Now On TTS!
Official Website: skybound.com
About: Vermin Vendetta is a deck-building, tactical strategy game with unique winning conditions for each player.
Take on the role of a bug faction in this 1 to 5 player game where you are trying to survive and grow in a hostile environment. Dominate other bug factions as you outpace and outgrow your opponents in the backyard. Build your deck to add new resources and capabilities to your colony; control territory on the map; take territory away from competitors while protecting your own; and complete your colony’s missions before your opponents complete theirs.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Some fierce creepy-crawlers!
Type: Deckbuilding tactical strategy game
Time To Play: 90 minutes
Number of Players: 1- 5 players
Age: 14+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Vermin Vendetta Now On TTS!
Official Website: nbgames.org
About: It’s Halloween in 2050 at a fancy dress party at the monster movie museum. You and your friends are at the party when a freak lightning storm makes one of the realistic movie monsters come to life! It’s chasing you! You don’t have to outrun it just each other!
Outrun is a competitive card game that pits you against your fellow escapees. Place the movement cards in the order shown on a path card faster than the other players. Only the first one out survives! Struggling to escape? Then hinder other players with an interference card to make their escape more difficult.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Outrun scary monsters in this Halloween game!
Type: Strategy, survival, family, card game
Time To Play: 10 - 60 minutes
Number of Players: 2- 6 players
Age: 8+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Outrun Now On TTS!
Official Website: goodlookingrichard.com
About: A game of high-stakes hijinks in which 1 to 4 players vie for control of the S’ghoul Library. Groups of Mythics with contrasting powers work to manipulate the board and outmaneuver their opponents. Cunning capers and tactical traps will outwit your enemy, catching them right in the path of the bone-chilling Timekeeper. The time is short and the stakes are high for proving yourself the best in class.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: A class of creepy ghouls!
Type: An asymmetric strategy game
Time To Play: 45- 90 minutes
Number of Players: 1-4 players
Age: 14+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Mythic Mischief Now On TTS!
Official Website: mythicmischief.com
About: Don't Go In There is a game about being a 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 gets 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!
It's an easy-to-learn, 25-minute game of what we're calling push your luck "set destruction." Players must decide how risky to play as they venture deep into the haunted house to get first choice of the cards. But the cards are all cursed! So you'll need to grab the right cards to dispel the curses in your hand.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: A classic haunted house game!
Type: A haunted house, push your luck, "set destruction" game
Time To Play: 30 minutes
Number of Players: 2-4 players
Age: 10+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Don't Go In There Now On TTS!
Official Website: r2igames.com
About: Primordial Secrets is a stylish, interactive deck-building game with secret and simultaneous card placement and action selection. Enjoy a dose of hidden information, deep strategy, big turns, and eldritch dinner parties!
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Creepy entities and spooky deceptions!
Type: Deckbuilding, card placement, actions selection
Time To Play: 30-90 minutes
Number of Players: 2 - 4 players
Age: 14+
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Primordial Secrets Now On TTS!
Official Website: primordialsecrets.com
About: A spooky-season take on classic Tabletop Golf with Psyrek’s mod! Be sure to grab your costumes and get ready for a fright in this multi-player favorite.
Game Info:
What Makes It Spooky: Halloween Mini-golf
Type: Party strategy game
Time To Play: 30 - 60 minutes
Number of Players: 1-10 players
Age: Perfect for everyone!
Tabletop Simulator Mod: Play Tabletop Mini Golf: Halloween Edition Now On TTS!
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