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?
Coordinate Victorian investigators under a real-time deadline, then resolve their clues and confront a story-driven horror together.
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.
Simultaneous Action Selection
Choose actions secretly or concurrently before revealing them together.
Variable Player Powers
Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Read the full game description
London Dread is a cooperative investigation game set in a supernatural vision of Victorian London. Each story unfolds across chapters that alternate between a timed planning phase and an untimed resolution phase. Under the clock, players place investigator action discs simultaneously, trying to cover locations, share support, and prepare for threats without perfect information about one another’s priorities. The story phase then reveals whether the team assembled enough skill, equipment, and coordination to overcome each plot. Success or failure changes the chapter’s pressure and leads toward a final confrontation, giving the game the urgency of a real-time puzzle with the arc of a narrative campaign scenario.
