One of tabletop's great games of cat and mouse is coming back. Avalon Hill is reviving Fury of Dracula as a fifth edition, and it will make its debut at Gen Con 2026 before landing in shops on 1 September 2026 for $64.99.
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Find events near youIf you have never played it, Fury of Dracula is a hidden-movement game for two to five players. One person secretly plays Count Dracula, slipping between cities across a map of 1890s Europe and leaving a concealed trail, while everyone else forms a band of hunters trying to corner him before he spreads enough influence to win. It is tense, deductive and dripping with gothic theme, and it has a long pedigree. The original was designed by Stephen Hand and published by Games Workshop back in 1987, with later editions from Fantasy Flight Games in 2006 and 2015, and a WizKids reprint in 2019.
This Avalon Hill version keeps the gameplay close to those recent editions, with one notable addition: a quicker-play variant from designer Dave Chalker, for groups who want to hunt the Count without committing a full evening. That matters, because a standard game runs 150 to 180 minutes and is aimed at ages 14 and up.
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See how it worksIt is part of a small gothic-horror push from Avalon Hill this summer, sitting alongside a Dracula-themed Talisman expansion, Talisman Sagas: Crown of Blood. For deduction fans who missed the earlier printings, which have not always been easy or cheap to track down, this is the most available the game has been in years.
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Sources: PHD Games | Weric Martin | BoardGameGeek
