Club Spooky Game Review

Terrifying Techno

Connor Wake and Always Awake Games have knocked it out of the park with the theme. I even love the humor of the studio name, as Connor is always a Wake (at least that’s my dad-joke interpretation). Club Spooky is another title that fits nicely as a spooky season game. I’ve found there aren’t too many titles that capture the Halloween vibe without leaning into horror, so it’s great to see something like this appear.

Club Spooky has players bidding and drafting various ghouls and ghosts at a spooky nightclub to join their clique. Each of these cards has a unique endgame scoring condition and traits that can be counted for conditional scoring. But wait—there’s also a dance floor in this club, and a DJ? Luckily, there’s no cover charge to get in.

Electronic Death Music

Club Spooky plays over three rounds and revolves around bidding on VIPs (named creatures with scoring conditions) and Randos (background clubbers with a single trait). Players sway creatures in the lobby by bidding “talking points” tokens in hopes of convincing them to join their clique. You can outbid others by placing one more token than they previously did, which gives the lower bidder all of their bidding pieces back. If your…

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