Ever wanted to become The Creep to unleash your own morbid mayhem in macabre morality tales? Soon you'll get the chance, as Skybound Tabletop has entered into a licensing partnership with Cartel Entertainment and Greg Nicotero’s Monster Agency Productions to release Creepshow: The Suspense-Building Game. Based on Skybound's comic book anthology series inspired by Shudder's Creepshow TV series (which itself is based on the legendary 1982 film written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero), Creepshow: The Suspense-Building Game will arrive on September 18th (just in time for Halloween season game nights), and we have the official press release with images and details on the spooky story-building game:
From the Press Release: Los Angeles, CA; August 8, 2024 – Skybound Tabletop, a division of Skybound Entertainment, known for its blockbuster social party and light strategy games like Boo-ty Call, Trial by Trolley, Invincible: Escape from Mars, and more, today announced its licensing deal to launch a party game based on Creepshow. Releasing this fall, Creepshow: The Suspense Building Game, is based on the Eisner-award nominated comic book anthology from Skybound, which was originally inspired by Greg Nicotero’s hit Shudder TV series produced and licensed by Cartel Entertainment. The deal was brokered by Striker Entertainment.
Brian Witten is overseeing on behalf of Nicotero’s Monster Agency Productions.
The “Wheel of Awesome”
The news comes just weeks after announcing several major licensing deals for two of Skybound’s tentpole IPs The Walking Dead and Invincible and is an indication of Skybound’s ability transform its IP from a TV show, video game, tabletop game, collectible, podcast, or all of the above, into exciting, must-have entertainment.
Now this fall, tabletop fans and Creepshow readers alike will be able to experience the IP in a whole new way by becoming a creep themselves, where the creepiest gameplay strategy wins...or does it?
Make your next game night even CREEPIER: Spin some tales and dig some graves in this ghoulish storytelling game!
Welcome to Creepshow, a wicked story-building game where players become Creeps and weave twisted tales where dastardly deviants meet well-earned demises. You’ll need strategy and cunning for this game, and to know when to push your luck because deception could be waiting at every turn. Creeps create chains of story cards and secretly fill them with Suspense. At key moments in the story, when tension is highest, Creeps can bet on the amount of Suspense to score big. But beware of other Creeps sabotaging the story, you just may lose your head!
The game includes 54 Story Cards, 9 Ending Cards, 34 Double Sided Point Tokens, and 5 Reference Cards. Creepshow: The Suspense Building Game was designed by Skybound duo Ben Kepner and Dan Strong, and features artwork from various designers from the Skybound original comic book anthology of the same name.
Creepshow: The Suspense Building Game will launch later this fall and retail for $19.99.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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