The fast pace makes it fun, and there's even a hard mode you can select in the app to make it faster. But this is a pro and a con. I don't like games that seem to take days to finish, like Monopoly, but I do want at least most of a game night to be spent playing. I wish there could be a more in-depth version here. Threaten is where he threatens a location. As mentioned previously, each Scene card has a location listed on it. The initial call is a heads-up that he’s heading there. The subsequent call is that he will make a demand for a single random object card. Unable to fulfill the demand? Bid farewell to your hand as it is discarded. Discarding your hand, whether through force via the app or voluntarily by clearing a Scene card, can force you to walk the dark, abandoned road of unintended consequences. To give one easy scenario, you turn your cards in for a Scene card, only to have Ghostface call you out through a Stalk two seconds later, demanding three keys. “No big deal,” one might say, except it is.

For those unfamiliar, SCREAM is a series of slasher films revolving around Ghostface–a grim reaper-like serial killer that hunts his victims and taunts them with a voice changer. In this game, you get to experience the terror as he hunts you down different parts of a small town. The set design makes it look like an actual setting for a slasher film.Now, you might wonder, why would an app provide instructions in a turn-based game? Scream has a time limit and will remind you constantly of that, making each turn last a few seconds while passing a cardboard knife around. I hope you and your friends are good at communication, especially since this is a cooperative game. It’s a set collection game, and like sex in horror movies, I never turn it down, even if the outcome will likely include my inevitable death. I like cards, hand management, and filling out objectives like I’m playing Rummy. This isn’t the first time I’ve reviewed a set collection game that was outside my interest. I don’t care for birds, and yet I reviewed Birdwatcher. My viewpoint comes from the mixed experiences I’ve had with Scream. At lower player counts, such as 3 or 4, the game wasn’t as challenging as I hoped, as there was less collision of emotions due to fewer people. This isn’t to say the game is easy, as our brains and attention were at 100% due to the app, but to say this game delivers a consistent experience would be a lie. With an increase in the number of players, the game truly revealed its nature as the likelihood of someone mishandling the situation grew. This could manifest in various ways, such as by drawing an excessive number of cards or failing to pass the knife. Since I am riding on this rail of criticism, the app could also use a few improvements. The sound mixing is off, as the voice is far quieter than it should be, even with Bluetooth speakers. While I certainly appreciate the gesture of the original voice actor involved in this, there need to be more lines. My biggest grievance has to be re-entering the names every time you restart, as it doesn’t remember names from the previous session. Even a calculator has some form of short-term memory.

There are many variations that I personally have made and can guarantee work, one example is to include motives into your game as well as the locations and suspects/characters. You can assign trap rooms for Ghostface to trap any targets in the location that they predetermined before play restarts, anybody in there can die after all players have had their next turn. Making tokens and advantages is another way to play with extra twists for both players. It is possible to make a game with every character in the franchise including minor characters such as Dawnie or even Ted in Scream 2, however play will take a lot longer to get through. Includes three missions with unique envelopes of components to decipher clues, outwit foes, and resolve otherworldly encounters! The pivotal and most crucial action Ghostface will perform is stalking. Ghostface selects a specific player and delivers a chilling message, alerting them of his imminent approach and making a demand. His demands are always a trio of objects, such as three keys or three popcorn cards. If he calls again and the player doesn’t have it, the player dies, and everyone loses. As a self-proclaimed non-fan of horror movies, the adrenaline-fueled screams and jump scares never quite managed to capture my attention. My vivid imagination often takes hold of me, immersing me deeply in the violent scenes in these films and placing me in the shoes of the victim, regardless of our apparent differences. Taunt is where everyone looks at the object cards in their hands. You see, some object cards will have Ghostface on them, and if your hand has three or more, you discard your entire hand.As for our wonderful antagonist, Ghostface, he will make calls via the app and do one of the three actions. Scream shoves its hand at this tradition. There is nothing to interpret here, as the foundations of Scream’s experience are held by the player’s ability to manage their hand, emotions, and communications. In other words, Scream is begging the players to mess up instead of being designed for the players to eventually make mistakes. The app is merely there to throw a monkey wrench into a rather mundane system, and it sometimes works.