One of the great hidden-movement games is coming back. Avalon Hill is reviving Fury of Dracula with a brand-new 5th Edition, sending one player skulking across Europe as the Count while everyone else races to track him down. Stephen Hand's gothic cat-and-mouse classic gets its first new edition in years, and it debuts at Gen Con this summer.
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See how it worksIf you have never played, the appeal is the asymmetry. One player takes Dracula and moves in secret, leaving a trail of clues, new vampires and nasty surprises in their wake. The other one to four players are the hunters, piecing together where the Count has been and trying to corner him before night after night of pursuit wears them down. It is tense, deductive and a little theatrical, which is exactly what you want from a game about chasing Dracula around a map of Victorian Europe.
The new edition keeps the bones of recent versions while adding a fresh playable hunter to the roster and a Quick-Play variant for groups who want the hunt without the full three-hour commitment. It supports 2 to 5 players, ages 14 and up, and runs somewhere in the two-to-three-hour range, with a price around the $60 mark. There is a neat crossover touch too: the hunter miniatures are designed to double as heroes in Avalon Hill's Talisman, part of a gothic summer that also includes the Dracula-themed Talisman Sagas: Crown of Blood.
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Find events near youCopies will be at Gen Con for demos and sale before a wider retail release this autumn. Gather your hunters and start planning the ambush.
Sources: Bleeding Cool | Zulus Games | Talisman Island | BoardGameGeek
