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Designers: Matt Hyra, Adam Sblendorio, Mataio Wilson
Publisher: Cryptozoic Entertainment
Artists: Samuel H. Greenwell, Robb Mommaerts, Dan Schoening

Ghostbusters: The Board Game is a campaign style game where you play as the four Ghostbusters and work to defeat different ghosts and villains from the movies. There are four separate shorter campaigns included which include 3-4 scenarios each. Overall, this game is fun but very simple and quite repetitive. I enjoyed playing it, but I skipped a few scenarios in some of the campaigns because they were similar to others I had played. The three different main villains all have their own campaign, each provides slightly different challenges, and some of the scenarios have unique rules and set up.

In this game, you’re playing as the Ghostbusters trying to bust ghosts and close gates. Most scenarios have the win condition of all gates need to be closed, so typically you’re using your turns to capture ghosts and work on the gates.

Some positives of this game: different mini campaigns and scenarios with unique board configurations, very family friendly and easy to learn, the theming is very well done (lots of nice touches like slime and the Ecto), the miniatures are impressive (especially Mr. Marshmallow Man), the storage solution is incredible, the characters gain XP during campaigns so there is some development

Can be a positive or a negative: 100% cooperative, and as a solo player, I played multi-handed as all four Ghostbusters

Some negatives: the mechanics get repetitive very quickly as do the goals, moving the miniatures and adding the proton streams and slime is fiddly, a low replayability factor once you’ve played all the scenarios, everything is based on dice rolls so your success is highly dependent on luck

Ghostbusters is a decent game for what it sets out to be, but it’s pretty bland besides the theming (which is really well done). If I’m going to play a game like this, as a gamer, I’d much prefer something like Cthulhu, but as a family game, I’m more likely to pick something like Horrified.