Escape the Night: The Board Game

The Escape the Night: The Board Game is a cooperative horror board game for 1-11 players.

The starting prices are 40-45$, with shipping fees depending on location.

### Description

"I love the fantasy-horror world of Escape the Night. It's been a dream come true, making the series, exploring all the crazy eras and monsters and, most of all, seeing its impact on the fans. I wanted to create a way for long time watchers, and those who know nothing about it, to take a piece of it home iwth them — no better way to do that than with a personal passion of mine, board gaming." - Joey Graceffa

## Background

### Announcing the Project

The Secret Project was announced on the 23rd of June by Joey Graceffa. Joey stated that there wouldn't be a fifth season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as they weren't able to produce or film the season.

To replace the fifth season, Joey announced he's been working on a Special Project to keep the audience entertained while waiting for a fifth season to happen. In the description of the same video, was a link to the sign-ups.

Those who signed up would receive news on the project via Emails, and would have access to a special Escape the Night Discord server.

### The Kickstarter

On the 7th of July, those who signed up to receive updates about the project were sent an email announcing that a Kickstar has been opened to fund the manifacture for the game itself.

"This Kickstarter campaign will last 30 days. Once you back the campaign, you can share your ideas and questions with the ETN team. In the coming days, as the number of backers grow, extra items will be added to the Premiere Edition of the game. These are called "stretch goals" and will make the campaign fun and exciting. The more people that join the campaign, the more items we will add! When the campaign ends, your address information will be collected and the factory will make the game. "

"It will ship out to you before Christmas."

The campaign will last 30 days.

### Premiere Edition

The Premiere edition includes everything in the Escape The Night Game PLUS 3D plastic artifacts, a premium hourglass, an upgraded box, and all the stretch goals that are added during the campaign.

## How to play?

### How does it work?

There are ten total rounds in the game and the last one is played different than all the others. For the first 9 rounds each character takes one action by rolling two dice. If they land on an SAE tile, they turn it over and resolve it immediately, whether it is a monster or a clue. If all of the tiles are resolved in a room then a character can take their action, after they roll the dice, to land on the artifact and claim it. If an artifact is claimed, you roll the dice and consult the mysterious man card to see what disastrous thing happens. At the end of the round, all players vote, one token for each character. They are placed in the voting box, with a “shield” so other people can’t see who you are voting for. After everyone votes, the cover of the voting tray is removed and votes are counted per person with the highest two going in the challenge. Then a death challenge card is drawn and the challenge is played out as described. After the death challenge, move the turn tracker forward one turn and do the same thing again. On the last round, there is no vote. Instead an hourglass is turned over (90 seconds) and players take turns, one at a time, trying to gather the last few artifacts before time runs out.

### How many players?

This game is co-operative, meaning you work together. You can play it by yourself, with two friends, three friends or up to eleven people in total. There are 11 characters that must be used each game. So if you have 3 players, two of them would control 4 characters each and one of them would control 3 characters.

### Can it be played multiple times?

This game has lots of re-playability. There are only 25 SAE tiles, but 80 different options for what could be underneath them. You also don’t know if it will be a monster or a clue. Plus the mysterious man does negative things to the characters each time you gain an artifact. You roll the dice to see what happens and so that is another mechanic that causes each play to be different. Lastly, there are different ways to set up the board to make it more or less challenging.

### How does voting work?

At the end of the round, all players vote, one token for each character. They are placed in the voting box, which has a “shield” so other people can’t see who you are voting for. After everyone votes, the cover of the voting tray is removed and votes are counted per person with the highest two going in the challenge. If there is a tie, dice are rolled with the lowest number going in the challenge. In the single-player version you flip over all of the character cards, shuffle them ,and draw the top two to see who goes in.

### Playing alone?

Because this is a co-operative game, in truth, you are playing against the board. So it works for one player or eleven. In the single player version one player controls all eleven of the characters, rolling for each one separately. The only rule change is during the voting process. Instead of using the voting tokens, all living characters are flipped over and shuffled. Then two are drawn and that is who goes into the death challenge each turn. It is very fun even with one player.

## Stretch goals

Stretch goals are goals, reached when the Kickstarter reaches a certain amount of money. When that certain amount is reached, players who purchase the Premium Edition box will receive additional items in their box once it arrives.

### Stretch Goal #1

Those who buy the Honored Guest tier (premium) or higher will now receive Tarot Cards of the characters in the board game. This does not include a personalized Tarot card if you bought the Exclusive Invitation tier.

### Stretch Goal #2

Those who buy the Honored Guest tier (premium) or higher will now receive gold dice, replacing the original in the premium version.

### Stretch Goal #3

Those who buy the Honored Guest tier (premium) or higher will receive 3 Secret Room Tiles. To use the Secret Rooms, you will need to shuffle them face down and draw one, placing it over the Dining Room. Placement of the SAE Tiles and the Artifacts are the same as in the Dining Room.

### Stretch Goal #4

Those who buy the Honored Guest tier (premium) or higher will receive 3 Random Holographic Character Cards.

### Stretch Goal #5

Those who buy the Honored Guest tier (premium) or higher will receive Holographic versions of the Toughest Monster Cards.

### Stretch Goal #6

Those who buy the Honored Guest tier (premium) or higher will receive 4 New Cards with Unique Mechanics. The cards will be 1 Monster Card, 1 Relic Card, 1 Clue Card, and 1 Death Challange Card.

### Stretch Goal #7

Those who buy the Honored Guest tier (premium) or higher will receive a Game Poster.

### Stretch Goal #8

This is the final Stretch Goal before the end of the Campaign. Those who buy the Honored Guest tier (premium) or higher will receive a Beast Mode version of the game. This adds five new SAE Tiles to the board and a new playable character, Colin, who will disappear after the 8th round if he has not been killed off in a death challenge.

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