Final Girl: Frightmare on Maple Lane

The suburbs, which in this genre are considerably more dangerous than the woods.

Frightmare on Maple Lane is the suburban Final Girl box — neat lawns, identical houses, and a killer who does not respect the boundary between waking and not. Like every feature film in the series it pairs one location with one killer, and it is a solo game from the ground up rather than a multiplayer design with a solo mode grafted on.

You are managing a hand of cards, a small pool of actions and a rising body count, deciding each turn whether to save someone, arm yourself, or move somewhere the killer is not. The difficulty is uncompromising and the theme is not softened. If you have another Final Girl box the components mix, so killers and locations can be recombined across the series.

Perfect for: Anyone who watches horror films to see whether they would have made better decisions.

1 player | 20–60 minutes | Age 14+