Funko Games is bringing a fresh horror board game to the table with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimagined as an eponymous board game. The 50th anniversary of the franchise is now celebrated with the 2-5 players ages 13+ The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Slaughterhouse board game, and look – the thing is gory.
The game is in a one-against-everyone-else format in which one player will take control over the savage Sawyer family whereas all the remaining up to four players will do their best to survive as lost travelers.
The Sawyers will be trying to grab you and drag you back to their farmhouse and harvest your meat to feed themselves. Players will desperately try not to end up as the family’s next meal by surviving. The game is designed by Prospero Hall, which is tasked with fleshing out every last detail.
Meanwhile, the game is already available for pre-order directly at Funko Games’ website or through Amazon.
Survive the Sawyer Family in This Gory Tabletop Experience
The game is also going to be available at Game Con. In the meantime, we may need to actually wait around for the actual game to come online before we know a little more about the actual rules of play.
For one, the player who plays the villains here will move the three members of the Sawyer family, capturing, killing, and butchering the unfortunate travelers. The rest of the players in the meantime will try to make it out alive from the house, but also collect evidence that implicates the family of the horrendous act that they perform on their victims.
To get the evidence to anyone, however, you would also need to leave the house alive and this can be hard when Leatherface and brother Nubbins and Drayton are out to get you. The game itself takes between 45 minutes to an hour to play and it will be hitting retail shelves in early September.
Right now, the game costs $29 to pre-order and it seems that the title will be sold exclusively in the United States with no international release confirmed just yet.