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TWISTED CRYPTIDS: BASE GAME + CRYPTID CULTURE EXPANSION BUNDLE
Twisted Cryptids: Base Game + Cryptid Culture Expansion Bundle
TWISTED CRYPTIDS: BASE GAME + CRYPTID CULTURE EXPANSION BUNDLE
Twisted Cryptids: Base Game + Cryptid Culture Expansion Bundle
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It’s so hard to feel seen as a Cryptid these days. In this easy-to-learn strategy game, you’ll navigate your love-hate relationship with humans and outwit your fellow Cryptids to earn your status as a true legend. As hikers, hunters, and researchers scatter across the wilderness hoping to catch a glimpse of you, you’ll stage elaborate hoaxes, plant perfect decoys, and lurk discreetly in the shadows to build up your myth. You might even expose your true self once in a while, but be warned: vulnerability can come at a price.
Product Details
Product Details
Bundle Includes:
- Twisted Cryptids: Base Game
- Cryptid Culture Expansion
Base Game Includes:
- 52 Action cards
- 12 Event cards
- 10 Hidden Trait cards
- 4 tarot-sized Cryptid cards
- 36 Sighting cards
- 12 Hiding Spot tokens
- 4 Cryptid meeples
- 30 Human tokens
- 1 First Player token
- 1 The Wilderness board
- 12 double-sided Myth tokens
- 1 sinkhole token
- 1 rule book
The Cryptid Culture Expansion Includes:
- 21 Action cards
- 6 Event cards
- 4 Hidden Trait cards
- 2 tarot-sized Cryptid cards
- 18 Sighting Cards
- 6 Hiding Spot tokens
- 2 Cryptid meeples
- 6 double-sided Myth tokens
- 12 Cult tokens
- 6 Cult Information Guides
- 1 rule book
About the Game
In Twisted Cryptids, players take on the roles of legendary creatures like Mothman, Bigfoot, the Loveland Frog, and Jackalope, each with unique powers and sighting cards. The goal? Stay hidden from Humans, control their movement through the game board, and expose yourself at the perfect moment to maintain your myth.
Expansions: Ness is More, Cryptid Culture, Yeti or Not (Coming 2026)
Setup
Choose Your Cryptid
Pick your favorite Cryptid and get ready to play! Each Cryptid card features your unique Cryptid Power that you can leverage to your advantage during the Day Phase.
Once per round, you may discard a card to use that Power on your turn!
Setup
Discover Your Hidden Trait
There's more to each Cryptid than meets-the-eye. You'll shuffle the Hidden Trait cards and deal two of them to each player. Choose the one that speaks to you and place it face down next to your Cryptid card. This card is part of your Cryptid identity now, and it comes with a secret bonus objective to help boost your score at the end of the game.
Setup
Prepare the Wilderness
Unfold the Wilderness board and place it in reach of all players – this is where all the action happens during the game! Next to the name of each location you'll see 2 of 3 symbols.
Place the corresponding Human tokens on each location to populate The Wilderness!
Setup
Go Into Hiding
Why are you standing there? You need to hide!
Set up your 9 Sighting cards in 3 Stacks, then place your corresponding Hiding Spot tokens in the Wilderness.
If there's an Encounter at the Site of one of your Hiding Spots, you'll have to reveal the top card of that Stack.
Gameplay
It's Game Time
Deal 5 Action cards to each player and voila – you're ready to play Twisted Cryptids!
Gameplay takes place over the course of 5 rounds, each divided into 4 phases: Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Night.
Gameplay
Dawn Phase
It's the start of a new day and the Humans are out to play! During the Dawn Phase, the First Player will flip over the top Event card and resolve it from top to bottom.
Gameplay
Day Phase
During the Day, you will use your Cryptid charm to move Humans around The Wilderness in an attempt to increase your Myth. You'll get 3 turns each Round, and on your turn you can take 1 of the following Actions:
- Play an Action card from your hand
- Discard an Action card from your hand to activate your Cryptid Power
- Pass the turn to the next player
Gameplay
Dusk Phase
Cryptids have been spotted in The Wilderness! At Dusk, an Encounter will occur, revealing what each Cryptid is (or isn’t) doing at that Site.
The Sighting will happen at the Site with the most Humans and at least 1 Hiding Spot! If there's a tie, the First Player for the round decides which Site the Encounter happens at.
Gameplay
Resolving Encounters
In player order, Cryptids at the Site of the Encounter will reveal the top card of the respective Hiding Spot deck! Gain (or lose) Myth based on the distribution of Humans at the site. Resolve the effect of the Sighting card, and remove your Hiding Spot from the Site.
Gameplay
Night Phase
Under the cover of night, the Cryptids scheme! In player order, take the following steps:
- If you did not have an Encounter during the Dawn Phase, you may move 1 of your Hiding Spots to a new Site in The Wilderness
- If you had an Encounter during the Dawn Phase, place your Hiding Spot at a new Site in The Wilderness
- Discard any number of Action cards and draw until you have 5 cards in your hand
Once all players have taken the above steps, pass the First Player marker to the right and begin the next Round!
Game's End
Scoring
All good things must come to an end! At the end of Round 5, flip over the remaining Sightings in your Stacks and your Hidden Trait before determining the winner of the game.
- Gain 7 Myth for each Real Deal that was not revealed during the game.
- Gain bonus Myth based on your level of completion of the objective on your Hidden Trait.
#Mythical
Become a Legend
The player with the greatest total Myth wins the game and is deemed the True Legend!
(the others scurry home before the Humans catch them)
Overall rating: 4.8333335 / 5 from 6 reviews.
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"Instructions on how to properly store the game and all expansions would be greatly appreciated"
Definitely worth purchasing but I
"Definitely worth purchasing but I did think there would be slightly more to it"
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"I purchased it as a gift and the recipients love it."
Awesome gift!
"Awesome gift!"
Cute and well made
"Cute and well made"
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