Duskwatch: The Gloaming

“As the sun vanishes behind the trees, the sounds of the forest evaporate. Birds stop their singing as not to draw attention to themselves, as foul and blasphemous things emerge from the darkness. Only four souls remain to tend to the fire, adventurers preparing themselves for the longest of nights. Each passing hour the darkness grows and the fire wanes, and all four warriors of Light hope that they will still be living as the first light breaks the sky.” Duskwatch: The Gloaming is a cooperative survival board game for between 1 and 4 players, where each and every decision will dictate who will survive the night. Players take the role of adventurers stranded at the heart of a forbidding forest as night falls. As sunlight fades, evil things approach – initially repelled by the campfire but gaining in confidence and power as the fires flicker and fade. As each hour draws to a close, there will be punishing decisions to make. Do the team heal themselves, change their combat strategy, or allow fatigued adventurers to rest? Do they let the campfire go out, or tend to it – keeping tougher enemies at bay at the expense of other more useful activities. The assets are: the rules (in trifold pamphlet format), a printable board and the necessary counters to play.  You'll also need a reasonable number of polyhedral dice to represent the monsters you will fight (and the health they possess).