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City of Horror
Year
2012
Players
36
Play time
90min
Min age
13+
Weight
2.43
BGG rating
6.68
BGG rank
#2461
Best with
5, 6

MeepleMates notes for City of Horror

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  • City of Horror is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 5, 6 players according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 6.68 and BGG rank #2461.
  • Groups use this page to connect Negotiation, Horror, Zombies metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 4.
City of Horror is a backstabbing survival-horror game. As in classic zombie movies, a shambling horde is invading the city. The goal is to survive the assault. (Un)fortunately, surviving often means sacrificing some of your fellow players to the undead... Each player controls several characters with different abilities; these characters can move to various limited-capacity locations, which they can then barricade and scavenge for items and weapons. Critical situations, such as zombies breaking in and eating a character, are resolved using a vote. The basic game mechanisms are the same as in Mall of Horror (also designed by Nicolas Normandon), but City of Horror differs in both materials and game play in a number of ways: the city map changes each game, twenty characters are included, they can use antidotes (or die), action cards become scarce as the game goes on, you can gain points with stuff other than surviving characters...

Categories

NegotiationHorrorZombies

Mechanics

Simultaneous Action SelectionArea MovementVotingPlayer Elimination

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Not rec.
3
Not rec.
4
Recommended
5
Best
6
Best
6+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(16 of 19 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Thematic Rank#564

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External data

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Latest Wikidata run: ok · 07/09/2026.