Fury of Dracula (Fifth Edition)
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You reach Bordeaux and the trail card flips: Dracula has been here, but where is he now?
Europe, 1898: eight years after the events of Stoker's novel, the Count has returned. You are Van Helsing, Mina Harker, Dr Seward or Lord Godalming and you want to destroy him, or you are Dracula and you want to create new vampires without being found.
Each round the hunters take one day action and one night action: they move, resupply and search. Dracula secretly extends his trail of face-down cards and scatters encounters along it. He wins if his influence reaches 13; the hunters win if they deal him 15 damage.
The 2026 Avalon Hill edition, designed by Dave Chalker, Stephen Hand (designer of the original game) and Craig Van Ness. It adds the hunter Jonathan Harker and a quick-play variant.
Category:Gioco tematico · Gioco di deduzione · 2 giocatori · Avventura · Horror
Why we like it. Time runs along a track of days and nights: each week adds a despair token, and the hunt tightens round by round. A single face-down card on the trail is enough to get the whole table reasoning together.
Good to know. Someone always has to play Dracula, and a game takes two to three hours.
We set the levels by reading the rules, always with the same yardstick: a 3 means the same on every game.
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Dracula wants his vampires to mature at the end of the trail; the hunters want to find those hiding places first, destroy the encounters and force him into a fight.
«Vanish, spread vampires, strike»
Wins if Raises his influence to 13 by maturing vampires and defeating hunters.
It's for you if you enjoy bluffing and secretly planning several moves ahead
To learn hard · secret trail and his own rules
«Gather clues, tighten the net»
Wins if They win together by dealing Dracula 15 damage before his influence reaches 13.
It's for you if you enjoy deduction and coordinating with your team
To learn hard · seven actions, teamwork
Yes, but one of the two has a heavy load. One player is Dracula, the other controls all four hunters alone; in the BGG poll, two players is the least popular count.
Yes, because Dracula secretly chooses where to start and where to move each time. The decks are shuffled every game, and the advanced rules add lairs, power cards and rumour tokens.
A lot: event, item, encounter and combat cards all have text to read. This edition is in Italian, so no English is needed at the table.
You'll need a big table. Around the map of Europe you have to lay out the item, event, location, encounter and combat decks, the character sheets and the token piles.
It's medium weight, 3 out of 5 according to BGG. The learn-to-play booklet is 16 pages, and there's a reference guide for special cases; the Dracula role has more rules to remember.
It depends on your role. The hunters win together if Dracula takes 15 damage; Dracula wins if he raises his influence to 13 by maturing vampires and defeating hunters.
Two to three hours. The stated playing time is 120 to 180 minutes; the fifth edition includes a quick-play variant.
Partly: the hunters play as a team and win or lose together. But Dracula is a human opponent, and everything the hunters say to each other must be said in front of him, except during the trade action.
Five, with one Dracula and four hunters, is the favourite in the BGG poll. Three and four are also recommended: whoever has more characters controls two hunters.
The core game is the same as the third and fourth editions. It adds a new hunter, Jonathan Harker, and a quick-play variant.
No, someone always has to control Dracula. The minimum is two people: Dracula against whoever controls all the hunters.
The recommended age is 14+. The theme is horror, the cards have text to read and a game lasts up to three hours.
“A manhunt where a single face-down card can decide the whole evening.”
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Fury of Dracula (Fifth Edition) in short. A game for 2 to 5 players by Dave Chalker, Stephen Hand and Craig Van Ness, published by Avalon Hill in 2026. A game lasts 120 to 180 minutes, ages 14 and up. One player secretly moves Dracula across Europe, while the others hunt him as a team, deducing his movements from a trail of face-down cards. Italian edition, available at Frogames.it
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