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Stay Away!
Year
2014
Players
412
Play time
60min
Min age
12+
Weight
1.24
BGG rating
6.12
BGG rank
#6590
Best with
6, 7, 8

MeepleMates notes for Stay Away!

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  • Stay Away! is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 6, 7, 8 players according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 6.12 and BGG rank #6590.
  • Groups use this page to connect Card Game, Bluffing, Deduction metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 5, 9, 10, 11.
A group of archeologists has mysteriously disappeared during an expedition to the risen island of R'lyeh. You are a member of a rescue team sent to aid them, but as you investigate the site, you encounter something terrible that seeks to destroy your team from within... You'll need intuition, nerves of steel, and clever acting if you're going to survive and win the game. Who will believe you? Who is whom, and who is what? You can't trust anyone and no one will trust you, so block the doors, quarantine a suspect, reveal your identity to your "allies", grab a flamethrower, or run away - but look carefully where you will end up because "The Thing" might be closer than you think... In Stay Away!, 4-12 players try to track down "The Thing", a creature 
awakened from a nauseating eternal slumber on the emerged R'lyeh island that has the capability of possessing the human body, cloning it, then taking its place, so as you play you won't know who "The Thing" is or when someone will become "The Thing" or who is infected or not. The archaeologists are looking for The Thing; their goal is to work together to identify which player is The Thing and roast it with a "Flamethrower" card. You remain Human until The Thing passes an "Infected!" card to you during a card exchange, at which point you become an Infected and take on that new Role: You are now an ally of The Thing and must take care that its identity is not revealed.

Categories

Card GameBluffingDeductionParty GameHorror

Mechanics

Open DraftingTeam-Based GameStorytellingPlayer EliminationRole Playing

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Not rec.
3
Not rec.
4
Not rec.
5
Recommended
6
Best
7
Best
8
Best
9
Recommended
10
Recommended
11
Recommended
12
Not rec.
12+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Moderate in-game text(2 of 3 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Party Game Rank#573

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External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 07/09/2026.