Only one will survive; it’s probably not you!
DEATH GAME
Designer: Laurie O’Connel | Publisher: 12 Pins Press
There’s been a glut of popular media about fight-to-the-death style scenarios in recent years. Battle Royale, Hunger Games, Squid Game; stories of normal people being thrust into life-or-death situations where they have to kill, or be killed themselves. Death Game by Laurie O’Connel is an excellent attempt to replicate that mass encounter in a way that still works without having to kidnap fifty of your mates and lock them in an abandoned crossbow-crammed maze. Death Game runs on a purposebuilt system that has built constructed specifically for the premise. It begins with players collaboratively deciding on a setting; are they in a high-school, a billionaire’s mansion, or the North Pole? They secretly vote on a gimmick; everything is flooding, the giraffes are robots, gravity turns offsometimes… Then they quickly create characters, and jump into a game.