Frankenstein: Madmen and Monsters

I really enjoyed Frankenstein: Madmen and Monsters. You can play it several times in a row and will always be a different game.

It's an excellent party game, very entertaining

Very good game for 4 to 8 players.

Es muy divertido, a 7 u 8 jugadores se pone bastante intenso, la cantidad de roles hacen que las partidas siempre sean diferentes.

Excellent game, I have played it several times and I need it in the toy library. It has a very easy to understand dynamic and requires the creation of a strategy to win.

2022-05-31

Initial Rating: 5.0 (May 2022)

Frankenstein is a Colombian boardgame and I´m a friend of the designer so this always makes things harder for me :D. The more time passes, the harsher I´m on games and Frankenstein is a perfectly good game, it´s just not a game for me. I´m the guy who hates Pandemic and Carcassonne and heavily dislike Ticket to Ride, so keep that in mind when you read my next words.

Frankenstein’s rules are easy to teach, but the rulebook needs work as it leaves several open questions. Playtime can be around 45 minutes.

The game´s components are ok, and they work but the game uses cubes of the same color to plan the actions and this can and will create confusion. The art is very good.

Frankenstein is a social deduction game and I really like the genre. In Frankenstein, each player has a secret role and a secret way to win the game (this is reminiscent of Mascarade). In the first phase, players play a card in front of themselves to gather resources, the neat thing is that you also give (or take) resources from your direct neighbors. After that, in turn, order each player plans an action and there are 10 different locations (some with 2 actions available). The actions allow you to get resources, to attack some of all players, to heal or to defend someone. First, players plan the actions and then they can reveal their secret role for a onetime powerful effect. After this the actions are executed in order. All things considered I had fun playing the game, it has some cool ideas.

Some of the secret roles are much easier to manage than others, that is, I feel it is much easier to win the game with some characters, but I guess the designer’s idea was that players can catch and address any unbalances by gameplay (I feel the same way about Mascarade).

Frankenstein is not in BGG´s database but I will submit it in the future (at some point, I´m ultra-busy these days).

Bottom line, Frankenstein can be a good social deduction game. I feel some small changes need to be addressed (like a better rulebook and better balance between some characters) but I couldn’t begin to suggest how as I have only played the game once. I love the art of the game and I will probably buy it if it becomes available again, after all, I need to support the local boardgame industry and the designer is a dear friend. I can honestly say Frankenstein is among the best Colombian games I have ever played, but I´m very partial toward social deduction games :D.

Current Rating: 5.0

Me encanta este juego!!! Lo he jugado sólo 3 veces pero quisiera comprarlo para jugarlo más. Hay que crear una estrategia para ganar y tiene una dinámica fácil de entender, me enganchó! LOVED IT!!!

Gran juego que asegura diversión a todos.