Get Into A Two-Player Board Game Chase With Dracula Vs Van Helsing

July 6, 2023 by brennon

Get into an intense two-player board game chase through the city with Dracula Vs Van Helsing coming out later this year from Mandoo Games. Can Van Helsing stop Dracula before the vampire turns every one of his targets into bloodsuckers?

Dracula Vs Van Helsing // Mandoo Games

The game has been designed by Maxime Rambourg and Theo Riviere and it comes with very evocative artwork by Weberson Santiago. Throughout the game, Van Helsing will be tracking Dracula and getting ready to dive into a showdown across the night.

Dracula Vs Van Helsing - Gameplay // Mandoo Games

Each player takes control of either Dracula or Van Helsing. Van Helsing is looking to remove all of Dracula's life points before Dracula can turn all of the inhabitants in a given district into vampires. Gameplay takes place over the course of five rounds where you will draw and discard cards, triggering the actions on the cards that have been discarded.

At the end of a round, you will compare the five cards in the rack which match the different districts on the game board. If Dracula ends up with a higher-valued card in that area then one of the humans has been turned. If Van Helsing can come out on top, Dracula gets wounded.

This game feels like a good bit of back and forth where you'll be trying to read what your opponent is doing as you race around London. I like the idea of a tense two-player thriller like this and it feels like it could be good fun for those who know each other well and new folks that you've met down the board game club!

Will you be checking out Dracula Vs Van Helsing later this year?