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?
Lead a Marine squad through a branching 1967 Vietnam campaign where tactical choices, hard firefights, and scarce resilience decide who comes home.
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.
Narrative Choices
Choose between story options that lead to different passages and consequences.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Area Movement
Move pieces between connected regions rather than along individual spaces.
Chit-Pull System
Draw tokens to determine which units, factions, or events activate next.
Events
Triggered events alter the shared state, rules, or available choices.
Read the full game description
Purple Haze is a narrative tactical campaign wargame set in Vietnam in 1967. Players guide a squad of U.S. Marines through jungle, rice paddies, villages, and fortified positions while a chit-pull system and event-driven story keep every mission uncertain. Area movement, dice-based combat, and consequential choices connect individual encounters into a longer tour of duty. The campaign supports solo and cooperative play, with the squad’s condition and earlier decisions shaping what follows. Its emphasis is as much on survival and the human cost of the patrol as on completing objectives.
