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Aye, Dark Overlord! The Red Box

#7788BGG ↗

2005 · 4-16 players · 30min · weight 1.28 · 3,307 ratings

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Rating
5.64
Users rated
3,307
Owned
6,674
Wishing
422

At a glance

What playing it feels like, broken down.

Core loop

Play cards to pass blame onto another goblin while telling an improvised excuse story; last with blame loses.

What it gives you
How strongly each kind of experience comes through (0–3)
Sensation
0
Fantasy
2
Narrative
3
Challenge
1
Fellowship
3
Discovery
0
Expression
3
Submission
1
How it works (4 mechanics)
  • [3]_other:blame_passing_storytelling— “all about telling lies and shifting the blame on poor fellow ones; righteous wrath gives them what they deserve
  • [1]info_asymmetry_stable— “each player is an evil goblin servant explaining why they brought last important mission to failure
  • [3]_other:improv_narrative_constraint— “roleplaying game about telling lies and shifting the blame; single loser game mechanic
  • [2]attrition_clock— “single loser game; Dark Overlord is not known for his mercy; last player with blame loses
Under-the-radar score: -0.46

Raw extraction payloads

The JSON rows behind this page, before analysis turns them into candidate ranking signals.

V4 wide feature rowgame_llm_features_v4.raw_json · v4-wide · vocab v1 · 2026-05-03
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    "Expression": 3,
    "Submission": 1
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    },
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Sources (1)

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