Mattel - Strategy Games - Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters

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Ghost Fightin’ Treasure hunters then is a simple game, but one that encourages cooperation and prioritisation of controlling the ghost population or getting the gems out.

In the end, thinking about how great this game looks brings us right back to why we love this game in the first place - and board games in general. The game is easy to learn and great to play, and it gets the whole family invested and working together.It’s the same as Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters, which is to be expected, but I’m still very impressed by the quality here. The game has a great deal of luck, but just enough strategy in the decisions that you can nicely second-guess yourselves later. If there are already two ghosts in the room, instead of playing a third ghost, the room becomes haunted and you replace the two ghosts with a haunt.

Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters is the ultimate co-operative game—win or lose, you're all in it together! Now that I finally own Creepy Cellar I can’t see playing Ghost Fighting Treasure Hunters without it.Also the mechanism it teaches are a great foundation and stepping stone other co-op games like Forbidden Island or the Pandemic Series. Everything that was added fits in very well with the theme and the general flow of the original game and it still very much feels like you are playing that original game but with more added to it. It feels like we’re on co-op mode in Luigi’s Mansion in real life, and we’re all trying to make it out alive. I love co-op games and whilst this is undoubtedly aimed at the family market, it makes for a really quick and light co-op fun for adults too.

Not only do the locked doors make it harder for you to move through the house to fight ghosts, it also impedes your way to collect and drop off the jewels.

I would also say that if you’ve played Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters and thought it was merely okay, something you would play but probably wouldn’t suggest, this may just be the thing to turn your play experience from okay to good if not great. A welcome new addition in this expansion are the Secret Passage tiles which are added to rooms A, F, G and K.