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Sep 8, 2025·Playthrough·49:47·1488·Watch on YouTube

Let's Play Making Monsters from Sky Lion Games

One Board Family

One Board Family

Watch “Let's Play Making Monsters from Sky Lion Games,” a gameplay video for Making Monsters from One Board Family on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by One Board Family on YouTube:

We're playing Making Monsters, a game designed by Jonathan Gilmour-Long and David Gordon, published by Sky Lion Games. Players are building monsters in their labs as they prepare for the Mad Science Fair. This is a press-your-luck, bag building game with incredible artwork from Brett Bean and Jordi Planellas. Erin, Ryan and Bob will teach you how to play this game that is all about creature creation. If you have any questions about the gameplay, comment below and we'll try to answer any questions we can. Sky Lion Games provided us with a prototype of Making Monsters for the purpose of content creation prior to the Kickstarter Campaign. 0:00 - Introductions 0:52 - Tour of the Lab 2:19 - Rules Overview 7:12 - First Round 14:31 - Round 2 and Beyond 41:39 - Mad Science Fair and End Game You can check out the Making Monsters Kickstarter campaign in the link below: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/makingmonsters/making-monsters-1 Looking for more games for the whole family? Head over to https://oneboardfamily.com today!

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Making Monsters

Making Monsters

2026·Jonathan Gilmour-Long, David Gordon (I)

Videos
10
Creators
9

Mainly reviews. Making Monsters is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 5 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, and 3 other videos.

2 - 4 players
45 - 60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Making Monsters, from BoardGameGeek:

In Making Monsters, players take on the role of mad scientists competing at the Monster Maker Science Fair, where only the most brilliant and bizarre creations will earn prestige and fame. Each round, players secretly choose how many monster parts to order-hoping to outwit their rivals and gather the right materials. Then, using a push-your-luck bag-building mechanic, players simultaneously draw and assemble monster parts, trying to complete powerful creatures before their lab experiments collapse. Build too cautiously and fall behind, but push too far and your monster might fall apart in spectacular fashion. Completed monsters grant points and special upgrades when re-animated, and each one adds to a growing tableau of increasingly wild and strategic upgrade and prestige point options. Players can also earn bonuses from their helpful robotic assistant, Lester, and manipulate the science fair for an edge in future rounds. At the end of the game, the science fair concludes with a Grand Finale: a final simultaneous challenge where each player selects their five favorite monsters from their lab and attempts to build them from their remaining resources. Success earns prestige; failure can cost dearly. It's a final test of strategy, memory, and risk management as players race to complete their ultimate monster squads before the fair closes.

Designers

Jonathan Gilmour-Long, David Gordon (I)

Artists

Brett Bean, Jordi Planellas

Publisher

Sky Lion Games LLC

Categories

Abstract StrategyHorror

Mechanics

Deck BuildingPush Your Luck
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