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Be Horrified by American Monsters, and Return to Puerto Rico...Again

Be Horrified by American Monsters, and Return to Puerto Rico...Again
• In 2019, the U.S. branch of Ravensburger released the co-operative game Horrified from the Prospero Hall design team. In this game, which was well-received in both hobby and mainstream markets, 1-5 players face off against 2-4 classic film monsters, with each monster requiring you to do different, thematic things to defeat it before they kill too many people in town. For more details, you can head to my written and video overview from July 2019.

Board Game: Horrified: American Monsters

In October 2021, Ravensburger will release a standalone sequel from designer Michael Mulvihill that follows the same formula as the original game — Horrified: American Monsters, with players now confronting classic American nightmarish beasts: Bigfoot, Mothman, the Jersey Devil, the Chupacabra, the Banshee of the Badlands, and the Ozark Howler. The more creatures in the game, the harder the challenge, with players needing to use their unique powers to figure out how to defeat each monster.

Horrified: American Monsters will debut in October 2021 at the U.S. retail chain Target with a US$35 MSRP, and whoever came up with the "Home of the Grave!" tagline should receive a bonus.

Board Game: Horrified: American Monsters

• In additional news from Ravensburger, the English-language editions of echoes: The Dancer and echoes: The Cocktail — two audio mystery games that I initially wrote about in mid-July 2021 — are scheduled for release in August 2021.

• Beyond that, in a July 2021 article in The Atlantic titled "The Board Games That Ask You to Reenact Colonialism", a Ravensburger rep notes that a "re-imagined version" of Andreas Seyfarth's Puerto Rico will be released in 2022, "created in partnership with a culturally diverse and representative team" and "set in post-independence Puerto Rico", which means "it won't include themes of colonialism".

Side note: The article by Luke Winkie generally covers the topic of colonialism-based games — and how they are falling out of favor — in a manner suitable for a mainstream audience, but he makes the kind of mistakes that irritate someone well-versed in the subject, such as stating that Puerto Rico's first edition was released by Rio Grande Games, not Ravensburger through its in-house brand alea or that the game has a creator apart from its publisher (other designers were referenced, but not Seyfarth) or that "Ravensburger acquired the English rights to Puerto Rico from Rio Grande" in 2020, when instead Rio Grande's license from Ravensburger ended.

Board Game: echoes: The Cocktail
Board Game: echoes: The Dancer
Board Game: Puerto Rico

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