Campy Creatures: Volume 1 Game Review

Classic, campy monster movies are a blindspot in my cinema knowledge. I know the general stories of the big ones—Dracula, Mummy, Swamp Thing—but I've never seen the original films. With Keymaster's release of Campy Creatures: Volume 1, however, I finally get to sink my teeth into those horror-laden worlds by taking on the role of a mad scientist showcasing their work. Let's see how it plays.

Campy Creatures: Volume 1 Overview

Campy Creatures: Volume 1 is a reimplementation of Campy Creatures, but as I haven't played the original, this will be a standalone review as opposed to a comparative one. The goal of this game is to accumulate the most points by the end of the third Round declaring you to be the maddest scientist of them all. It's a compliment, I promise.

Each player starts with the same hand of seven Creature cards, each with a unique value and ability. Values range from 0-5 with the last card having a value of X, which can be manipulated by spending Energy tokens. Additionally, each player places a Clash Marker into the Clash-O-Meter, which is used to break ties over the course of the game.

At the beginning of each Round, four Scene tiles are revealed and a new slew of Mortal cards are drawn to form a common…

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