Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Craft transparent upgrades onto animal heroes, defend threatened locations, and cooperate to defeat a parade of comic-book monsters.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Die Icon Resolution
Interpret rolled icons to determine which actions or effects occur.
Events
Triggered events alter the shared state, rules, or available choices.
Read the full game description
Ham Helsing is a cooperative adventure game starring an unlikely team of monster-hunting animals. Players travel between threatened locations, battle minions, visit the Rat Market, and prepare for escalating villains across five rounds. Transparent upgrade cards layer over hero equipment to create customized weapons and abilities without losing the information underneath. Dice and event pressure keep every defense uncertain, while shared planning determines where the team can afford to fight, shop, and recover before the next boss arrives.
