🇨🇦 Canada Post Strike Updates (Read More)

If you love Board Games, you're in the right place!

Discover one of the largest online stores for board games: 5,500+ titles in stock!
Evil Hat Productions  |  SKU: EHP0022

The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game

$38.95 CAD
This item is available for pre-order. Orders will be fulfilled in order received. We will contact you if the item is unavailable.

Delivery and Shipping

For more details, please refer to our Shipping and Order Information.

Description
Designer Eric B. Vogel
Publisher Evil Hat Productions
Players 1-5
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 13 and up
Expansions The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game: Fan Favorites
 The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game: Helping Hands

The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game: Wardens Attack
The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game: Winter Schemes
The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game: Dead Ends
Accessories The Broken Token - The Dresden Files Organizer

Description from the publisher:

In The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game, players work together to solve cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels in the ultimate what-if scenario: What if Harry was on the scene with allies who weren't there in the original story? Play Harry, Murphy, Susan, Michael, and the Alphas in the first five novels, or take on "Side Jobs" in a random scenario generator based on the short story collection of the same name.

Play your hand, clear the board, and beat the odds in the final showdown at the end of the book. Use teamwork, strategy, and a wee bit of luck to win the day.

The game has plenty of in-jokes and references for Dresden fans (like the unreliable range of the Blue Beetle), but it’s accessible to people who haven’t read the books.

This is a tightly tuned, strategic, cooperative game that feels intense, vital, and a little bit risky (thanks to dice and other factors) throughout play. At 30 minutes per session, gameplay is fast-paced and down to the wire. In this game, players take on the role of Harry Dresden and his allies, investigating cases and taking on foes from the books. To accomplish this, you'll share a common pool of action points (called Fate points), and each player must choose between taking an action or generating Fate points each turn. Solve more cases than there are foes left standing to win!

In short, each player plays a character from the novels (one of them is always Harry), taking on a shuffled scenario deck based on one of the books in the series. Using a combination of cards, dice, and teamwork, players attack foes, investigate cases, take advantages, and overcome obstacles to make sure they have the best possible odds for a win in the final showdown at the end of the book! Like any good cooperative game, it's hard to win (no fun if there's no challenge!), but always rewarding to play, and scales smoothly from one to five players.

Customer Reviews

Based on 2 reviews
100%
(2)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
S
Sean Young
Dresden Files

Excellent game. Challenging and flavourful!

J
Jared Paton
Our favourite practicing wizard!

Pros: Great coop game, always a challenge
Characters have unique decks with unique abilities, all hung on an easy-to-understand framework
Each book from the series is a separate mission in the game, and events in the book are used as obstacles or challenges in the game
If you like the series, you'll like the theming of the game
Games only take 15-20 minutes
The system is smooth, mechanics easy to understand

Cons: Sometimes a mission is unwinnable, but you won't know that until the end
Having a bad hand draw can be a frustrating experience, since there's an excellent chance you will not be able to take any more cards after your initial hand

How does it play with 2: Fantastically! My wife and I will usually play 2-3 games of this is a row, since two player is so quick. We play two characters each, choosing one character to draw three cards from, and the other to draw 4 cards from. We love the Dresden Files, and we love this game.
Back to top