The world has reached the first great apocalypse, You're either a brain munching zombie, an body snatching alien, or one of the few keeping them at bay... for now.
Collect and trade matching cards to complete your mission for an alien invasion, wide spread infection, or be humanity's last hope, and cure them all. But every card you draw has a negative and positive value, will you inadvertently let them enemy win by passing the wrong card, deception is just as important as luck. Its Zombies and Aliens meet Go Fish.
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Component | Quantity | Photo |
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Small Pro Box | 1 | ![]() |
Medium Booklet | 1 | ![]() |
Poker Deck | 1 deck of 13 cards | ![]() |
Poker Deck | 1 deck of 74 cards | ![]() |
Poker Deck | 1 deck of 8 cards | ![]() |
Poker Deck | 1 deck of 11 cards | ![]() |
Average Rating | 15 reviews |
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Publish Date | June 21, 2013 |
Edition | Kickstarter Edition |
Department | Games |
Tags | Sci-Fi Zombies Modern / Present Casual Gamer Trick-taking |
More Info | HOST (Deluxe Edition) web site |
The art in HOST is beautifully minimalistic... Color-coded biohazards, alien abductions, fingerprints, the caduceus, and more give just enough to get the imagination rolling to horrifying ends.
For me, I enjoyed playing the game with a mix of Child Geeks and Parent Geeks the best. Everything is secret and you must read the other players. When I attempted to read the Gamer Geeks, all I got wa...
HOST is the MOST fun you will ever have! Well.. maybe not.. but it look like great fun. Love the simple but easy to read art style. The game play, from all those videos, look like lots fun and full o...
This is a superb filler game that is easy to teach, quick to play, and above all - fun. Well worth the purchase price with a fair amount of replay value. -Gamer's Remorse
Nothing we can say about this game that hasn't already been said. If you like simple, fun, games, this is definitely worth it. +point system game-play / clean minimal art.
Everytime I Play HOST with my friends, we remember why we backed it on Kickstarter. It delivers everything it promises. A Fast, Fun, Screw your buddies over Kind of game. You try to collect points to ...
This game is great for the family.
Great party game. Easy to just pick up and go. Some of the rules can be confusing but it's easy to figure out.
Simple to play and easy to teach!
With a minimalistic artwork (on purpose!) the game is still engaging.
I created the game, so you're probably expecting the same ITS GREAT! talk. But the fact of the matter is that HOST was my very first attempt at making a game. I made some mistakes along the way. But i...
It’s Apocalypse time! Aliens and zombies abound and a rag tag group of humans is fighting for their very survival. Will you bring a soul crushing end to humanity with a zombie plague or will you swoop...
Host is a really fun, simple card game with a good use of its theme. There are a lot of games today based on the end of the world. Some take the theme very seriously and make sure you understand why...
I backed the game on Kickstarter because I dig the premise and I am glad I did. The game plays fast and the rules are simple to learn. The Event Cards enable a player who is behind to completely sha...
I backed HOST early on in it's crowdfunding campaign. I like the theme of impending destruction of the world by various things like zombies, disease, or alien invaders and/ or the attempt to save it! ...
HOST is a really great game because of its simplicity and unique use of conspiracy/paranormal themes. At the start of the game players are randomly given a mission, which might be to accumulate poin...