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Cave Evil

Cave Evil

2011·Mat Brinkman, Jochen Hartmann, Nate Hayden

Videos
34
Creators
12

Mainly how-to-play and playthroughs. Cave Evil is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 4 reviews, 10 how-to-play guides, 10 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 6 other videos.

2 - 4 players
180 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

From BoardGameGeek

"The living dug out cities for their dead: necropolises deep within the earth. They filled the caverns with bodies and locked them away from the upper air. Eventually the dead forgot the living - if any remain. But in death, a new life began. The breath of evil from the darkness of complete shadow stirred corrupted flesh. In their middens and pits, the dead awakened, swarming through slime-fluxing tunnels, seeking chthonic power, warring with demons and denizens of the deep. Animated by the black flame, necro-ecologies rose and collapsed in the crypt-universe. Now, cloistered undead lich-wizards have discovered the primordial opening to the shadow source, the doleful horror-hole where the Eternal Evil Emperor watches and waits.... The necromancers have dug their Lairs deep into the ground. They must gather precious resources and body parts to assemble an army of minions, while defending their own lairs from the excavations and intrusions of others. In the end, the only route is into the demon path... Then depletion of your essence leads to spending another eternity in foul sepulchral darkness awaiting the next Awakening of Death." In Cave Evil, each player takes the role of an ancient Necromancer. Located deep within an earth, their Necropolises have now merged, each seeking the Darkest Pit, the location of all evil. The dark wizards must build minions with precious resources from their Lairs to send forth and destroy, or dig further tunnels to locate other creatures, resources or to ambush another sorcerer. The game is won when only one remaining Necromancer stands. A Necromancer can either be destroyed by combat, or an enemy minion may venture into their Lair and crush the wizard's shadow power, a Chthonic Crystal. BUT an even greater darkness may befall the players. As they build and destroy creatures the Dark Pit absorbs the shadowflame and may awaken the ultimate cave evil...

Cave Evil

Watch first

Learn to play

CE - intro47:28

CE - intro

calandale

calandale

Review

Cave Evil Unboxing video16:06

Cave Evil Unboxing video

So Play We All

So Play We All

Watch it played

CE - 144:27

CE - 1

calandale

calandale

Which Cave Evil video should I watch?

Cave Evil has 34 videos from 12 creators: 4 reviews, 10 how-to-play guides, 10 playthroughs, 4 unboxings and 6 other videos. They date from 2011 to November 2025.

To learn the rules, start with "CE - intro" by calandale, which runs 47 min. For a quicker teach, "CAVE EVIL How To Play: SET UP" by CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL runs 8 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Cave Evil Unboxing video" by So Play We All. 4 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "CE - 1" by calandale, one of 10 playthroughs.

If you like it, try Rocky Mountain High, Mayan Sun, Aztec Destiny: 500 BC – AD 2012 – Beyond∞, Crypt City and The Mushroom Eaters, also by Nate Hayden.

All videos

Cave Evil Keeps Metastasizing and Getting Evil-er | Interview with Co-Designer Nate HaydenInterview34:27

Cave Evil Keeps Metastasizing and Getting Evil-er | Interview with Co-Designer Nate Hayden

Breakup Gaming Society

Breakup Gaming Society

CAVE EVIL How To play: INVOKE ACTIONHow to play4:01

CAVE EVIL How To play: INVOKE ACTION

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL How To play: PHASE 4 Event OutcomesHow to play1:32

CAVE EVIL How To play: PHASE 4 Event Outcomes

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL How To play: PHASE 2 Conjuration of Forbidden KnowledgeHow to play2:16

CAVE EVIL How To play: PHASE 2 Conjuration of Forbidden Knowledge

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL How To Play: PHASE 1: Combat against adjacent EnemiesHow to play1:19

CAVE EVIL How To Play: PHASE 1: Combat against adjacent Enemies

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

How To Play: GAMEPLAY OVERVIEWHow to play2:00

How To Play: GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL How To: CARD DETAILSHow to play1:46

CAVE EVIL How To: CARD DETAILS

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL How To Play: SET UPHow to play7:41

CAVE EVIL How To Play: SET UP

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL - 13 Year Edition (THE CRYSTAL IS MINE!)Humor4:00

CAVE EVIL - 13 Year Edition (THE CRYSTAL IS MINE!)

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

Cave Evil. PartidaPlaythrough2:31:32

Cave Evil. Partida

Gostilian

Gostilian

Cave Evil. Tutorial. Parte 2How to play17:12

Cave Evil. Tutorial. Parte 2

Gostilian

Gostilian

Cave Evil. Tutorial. Parte 1How to play44:38

Cave Evil. Tutorial. Parte 1

Gostilian

Gostilian

CE - intro47:28

CE - intro

calandale

calandale

CAVE EVIL How To Play: SET UP7:41

CAVE EVIL How To Play: SET UP

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL How To: CARD DETAILS1:46

CAVE EVIL How To: CARD DETAILS

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

How To Play: GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW2:00

How To Play: GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL How To Play: PHASE 1: Combat against adjacent Enemies1:19

CAVE EVIL How To Play: PHASE 1: Combat against adjacent Enemies

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

Cave Evil. Tutorial. Parte 144:38

Cave Evil. Tutorial. Parte 1

Gostilian

Gostilian

CAVE EVIL How To play: PHASE 2 Conjuration of Forbidden Knowledge2:16

CAVE EVIL How To play: PHASE 2 Conjuration of Forbidden Knowledge

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL How To play: PHASE 4 Event Outcomes1:32

CAVE EVIL How To play: PHASE 4 Event Outcomes

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CAVE EVIL How To play: INVOKE ACTION4:01

CAVE EVIL How To play: INVOKE ACTION

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

Cave Evil. Tutorial. Parte 217:12

Cave Evil. Tutorial. Parte 2

Gostilian

Gostilian

Cave Evil Unboxing video16:06

Cave Evil Unboxing video

So Play We All

So Play We All

CE - review22:06

CE - review

calandale

calandale

Cave Evil Board Game Review22:23

Cave Evil Board Game Review

TJ Fowler

TJ Fowler

Cave Evil. Reseña.34:13

Cave Evil. Reseña.

Julius Fairfax

Julius Fairfax

CE - 144:27

CE - 1

calandale

calandale

CE - 246:53

CE - 2

calandale

calandale

A Moment with Cave Evil... Live!2:39:11

A Moment with Cave Evil... Live!

Phasing Player

Phasing Player

CE - 554:22

CE - 5

calandale

calandale

CE - 657:47

CE - 6

calandale

calandale

CE - 458:16

CE - 4

calandale

calandale

CE - 8 wrap20:45

CE - 8 wrap

calandale

calandale

CE - 353:58

CE - 3

calandale

calandale

CE - 745:53

CE - 7

calandale

calandale

Cave Evil. Partida2:31:32

Cave Evil. Partida

Gostilian

Gostilian

Cave Evil. Unboxing16:49

Cave Evil. Unboxing

Gostilian

Gostilian

Unboxing CZ Fox in the Box37:11

Unboxing CZ Fox in the Box

POD VÍKEM

POD VÍKEM

UNBOXING in 3 minutes3:20

UNBOXING in 3 minutes

POD VÍKEM

POD VÍKEM

Unboxing de Cave Evil sPain Edition por MasQueOca38:47

Unboxing de Cave Evil sPain Edition por MasQueOca

El Dado Obscuro

El Dado Obscuro

Cave Evil Keeps Metastasizing and Getting Evil-er | Interview with Co-Designer Nate Hayden34:27

Cave Evil Keeps Metastasizing and Getting Evil-er | Interview with Co-Designer Nate Hayden

Breakup Gaming Society

Breakup Gaming Society

Cave Evil: Invocation of thee Eternal Battle - 20136:36

Cave Evil: Invocation of thee Eternal Battle - 2013

Damon Packard

Damon Packard

NEW TRAILER1:36

NEW TRAILER

Damon Packard

Damon Packard

CAVE EVIL - 13 Year Edition (THE CRYSTAL IS MINE!)4:00

CAVE EVIL - 13 Year Edition (THE CRYSTAL IS MINE!)

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL

8 of 12

Creators who cover this

All channels
calandale
calandale
10 videos of this game
CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL
CHTHONIC CRYSTAL CHANNEL
9 videos of this game
Gostilian
Gostilian
4 videos of this game
Damon Packard
Damon Packard
2 videos of this game
POD VÍKEM
POD VÍKEM
2 videos of this game
Breakup Gaming Society
Breakup Gaming Society
1 video of this game
Ediciones MasQueOca
Ediciones MasQueOca
1 video of this game
El Dado Obscuro
El Dado Obscuro
1 video of this game

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About Cave Evil

From BoardGameGeek:

"The living dug out cities for their dead: necropolises deep within the earth. They filled the caverns with bodies and locked them away from the upper air. Eventually the dead forgot the living - if any remain. But in death, a new life began. The breath of evil from the darkness of complete shadow stirred corrupted flesh. In their middens and pits, the dead awakened, swarming through slime-fluxing tunnels, seeking chthonic power, warring with demons and denizens of the deep. Animated by the black flame, necro-ecologies rose and collapsed in the crypt-universe. Now, cloistered undead lich-wizards have discovered the primordial opening to the shadow source, the doleful horror-hole where the Eternal Evil Emperor watches and waits.... The necromancers have dug their Lairs deep into the ground. They must gather precious resources and body parts to assemble an army of minions, while defending their own lairs from the excavations and intrusions of others. In the end, the only route is into the demon path... Then depletion of your essence leads to spending another eternity in foul sepulchral darkness awaiting the next Awakening of Death." In Cave Evil, each player takes the role of an ancient Necromancer. Located deep within an earth, their Necropolises have now merged, each seeking the Darkest Pit, the location of all evil. The dark wizards must build minions with precious resources from their Lairs to send forth and destroy, or dig further tunnels to locate other creatures, resources or to ambush another sorcerer. The game is won when only one remaining Necromancer stands. A Necromancer can either be destroyed by combat, or an enemy minion may venture into their Lair and crush the wizard's shadow power, a Chthonic Crystal. BUT an even greater darkness may befall the players. As they build and destroy creatures the Dark Pit absorbs the shadowflame and may awaken the ultimate cave evil...

Designers

Mat Brinkman, Jochen Hartmann, Nate Hayden

Artists

Commode Ministrels in Bullface, Manifester, MarderIII, Wizard333

Publisher

Blast City Games

Categories

AdventureAncientExplorationFantasy

Mechanics

Area MovementHand ManagementModular Board & Variable Setup
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