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Betrayal Legacy

#240196BGG ↗

2018 · 3-5 players · 90min · weight 2.92 · 5,369 ratings

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ID
240196
Name
Betrayal Legacy
Year
2018
Rank
609
Min players
3
Max players
5
Playing time
90
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
2.9231
Num weights
91
Bayes avg
6.90526
Average
7.64617
Users rated
5369
Num owned
12433
Wanting
270
Wishing
3254
Num comments
1073
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:16:07 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (18)
Cooperative GameDice RollingEventsGrid MovementLegacy GameLine of SightMap AdditionModular BoardPlayer EliminationRole PlayingRoles with Asymmetric InformationScenario / Mission / Campaign GameStat Check ResolutionStorytellingTeam-Based GameTile PlacementTraitor GameVariable Player Powers
Categories (4)
AdventureExplorationHorrorMiniatures
Description (1440 chars)

Betrayal Legacy marries the concept of Betrayal at House on the Hill — exploring a haunted mansion — with the permanency and multi-game storytelling exhibited by Daviau's Risk Legacy and other legacy games that followed. Betrayal Legacy consists of a prologue and a thirteen-chapter story that takes place over decades. Players represent families, with specific members of a family participating in one story, then perhaps an older version of those characters (assuming they lived) or their descendants showing up in later stories. Why would people keep exploring a haunted mansion for decade after decade, especially when horrible things happen there? Curiosity, I suppose, or perhaps an ignorant boldness that comes from the belief that we know better than those who have come before. Look at all that we've learned, marvel at the tools we have at hand! Surely we'll all exit safely this time... As with other Betrayal titles, the game is narratively-driven, with elements that record the history of your specific games. The tools mentioned earlier, for example, become attached to specific families. This isn't just a bucket; it's my bucket, the one my grandpappy used to feed his family's pigs when he was a boy, and while you can certainly use that bucket, I know how to wield it best from the time he spent teaching me how to slop. Yes, it's an heirloom bucket, and when kept in the family, I get a bonus for using it.

LLM v2 (wide)

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LLM v3 (deep)

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