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Dark Cults

#1784BGG ↗

1983 · 2-2 players · 60min · weight 1.45 · 147 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
1784
Name
Dark Cults
Year
1983
Rank
10722
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
1.4545
Num weights
11
Bayes avg
5.57706
Average
6.90986
Users rated
147
Num owned
306
Wanting
68
Wishing
167
Num comments
82
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Storytelling
Categories (2)
Card GameHorror
Description (646 chars)

An early story-telling card game from the co-designer of Divine Right and Knights of Camelot. It is a story-telling card game, foreshadowing Once Upon a Time: The Storytelling Card Game. In it, the two players represent Life and Death, respectively, and each tries to guide a horror story to their corresponding outcome. As well as horror, the creator suggests that the game could be used for a science-fiction or mystery story, although the game's cards may be poorly suited to this. The second edition was packaged with a magazine called The Cultist. It proposed solo and four-player variants, and additional "object" cards for the game.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.