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?
Investigate cultists aboard a doomed luxury train, combine clues and forbidden knowledge, and prevent a ritual before the journey ends.
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.
Scenario Campaign
Play linked or standalone scenarios with their own setup, objectives, and consequences.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Deduction
Combine clues and exclusions to identify hidden information.
Push Your Luck
Choose whether to secure current gains or risk them for a larger reward.
Action Retrieval
Previously used actions must be recovered before they can be selected again.
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Read the full game description
Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game adapts Chaosium’s celebrated campaign into a cooperative investigation aboard a modular train. Each player controls an investigator with distinct skills, items, and weaknesses, moving through carriages to question passengers, uncover clues, and confront supernatural threats. The group must identify hidden cultists and interrupt a ritual before time and sanity run out. Action retrieval, evolving decks, narrative choices, and scenario-specific rules make every chapter feel like a dangerous leg of the journey. The campaign rewards coordination, careful risk, and remembering what the train has already revealed.
