Board Games & TTRPGs To Play If You Love ‘Assassin’s Creed’
If you don’t want to wait for October for the Assassin’s Creed TTRPG, maybe one of these games will help capture the right assassiny feeling.
The Assassin’s Creed series has consistently been some of the most popular games ever made. They’re fun, they’re strategic, and they have a very specific vibe. Plus, that special brand of nobody-actually-injured-in-the-making-of video game violence can be cathartic. An Assassin’s Creed tabletop roleplaying game is in production and available for pre-order and should be ready to play October of this year. But if you don’t want to wait that long, these games may help scratch that assassin-y itch.
1. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice
Of course an Assassin’s Creed game would have that same vibe. This is a story-driven campaign style cooperative board game, but can be played on solo mode as well. There are tons of characters you may remember from the video games, as well as brand new people made up for Brotherhood of Venice. This game is meant to look and feel like the inspiring games as you pick your assassins, sneak through the city, and try to lose any pursuers you may have trailing you while unlocking memories and unraveling the game’s full story.
2. Blades in the Dark
Blades in the Dark is the tabletop RPG for assassins, rogues, heists, and anything else that may happen in shadowy corners. Join a crew of scoundrels seeking out their fortune though the haunted streets of an urban-fantasy city. Rewards can be great if you’re bold enough. And if not, leading the criminal underworld isn’t for everyone.
3. Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
Jaws of the Lion works as a stand alone campaign or an expanse to the Gloomhaven game. Play as one of four hardened mercenaries and fight through twists, turns, challenges, and maybe a even a few things that want to end your party for good. If you’re not familiar with Gloomhaven already, this set is easy to jump in with, with its tutorial scenario books meant to help newer players jump right into the action.
4. Spire: The City Must Fall
If you want a little more fantasy with your assassining, Spire will bring you to the city of Spire, a place fun by high elves for the last two hundred years. But now it’s time to overthrow their cruel government and put someone else in that place. This is a fantastic mixture of fantasy and gritty noir.
5. Werewolf
If you’re looking to match the Assassin’s Creed vibe of ‘be careful who you trust’ and ‘somebody’s gunna get cut’ but also want something a little more kid friendly or even something good for a party, Werewolf is a classic. Everyone draws cards and most people are some variety of townsfolk… But some people are werewolves. And if you don’t figure out who the werewolves are by nightfall, somebody is getting eaten. Good luck and try not to accuse an innocent towns person!
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