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Jun 11, 2026·How to play·02:19·269·Watch on YouTube

This Game is SINISTER

Tried & True Board Games

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Watch “This Game is SINISTER,” a how-to-play guide for Sinister from Tried & True Board Games on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Tried & True Board Games on YouTube:

Sinister is a hidden-role deduction game about an exorcism gone wrong. A demon is trapped inside a pentagram, but before the ritual can be completed, it disappears. Now everyone at the table is trying to figure out who, or what, has been possessed, while secretly placing cards to either protect the ritual, corrupt the pentagram, or satisfy their own hidden objective. It’s dark, suspicious, and full of the kind of table talk where every move feels just a little too convenient. If you like social deduction with secret goals, ritual manipulation, and accusations that can make everything worse, this is one to keep an eye on. Big thanks to @WaterbearWorkshop letting me check this one out!

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Sinister

Sinister

2026·Shadoe Konicek, Sydney Whalen

5 - 8 players
30 - 60 min

About Sinister, from BoardGameGeek:

You and your companions trapped a demon within this pentagram. You aim to send it back whence it came. The demon, however, has different plans. Figure out who it is possessing before it corrupts you one by one and escapes. Complete the exorcism or fall victim to your own sins. Sinister is a card-drafting Social Intrigue game of Catholic Horror with a shifting betrayer where the eliminated players stay in the game to take revenge. Each round, players will be dealt Soul cards which tell them if they are possessed, or must resist one of the Seven Deadly Sins. They will then be dealt a hand of Item cards which they will utilize to either resist their sins, or keep the possessed player from corrupting the pentagram. After drafting all of the cards, players will vote on who they think is possessed, check to make sure the pentagram is not fully corrupted, and then exorcise the chosen player. If the exorcised player was possessed, the surviving players win. If they were not possessed, they become a malevolent spirit whose only goal is to help the demon corrupt the pentagram and escape. Each round the Soul cards are redistributed, meaning a different player is likely possessed. -description from the publisher

Designers

Shadoe Konicek, Sydney Whalen

Artist

Lamar Macisco

Publisher

Waterbear Workshop

Categories

Card GameHorror

Mechanics

DeductionHand Management
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