The 10 Meanest Board Games Ever Created

 8. City of Horror

In most zombie movies, the real monsters aren’t the zombies but the survivors who lose their humanity along the way. Ditto in City of Horror, where the real monsters are the a**holes around the table that leave you to die and eat your snacks as they do it. In the game, you’ll be controlling a group of survivors hiding out in various buildings, fending off the hoard of shambling brain enthusiasts. You win by surviving as long as you can and getting as many of your characters as possible to the chopper, insert gif of schwarzenegger. But here’s the thing, a lot of the game is governed by voting, because what would a post-apocalypse be without self-imposed hierarchies of power and the resentment that they bring. You vote to divvy out supplies which arrive each round, most of your characters have one-off powers that can sway votes and, meanest of all, when zombies overrun a building, instead of them swarming in and everyone dying, people in that building hold a vote to see which one character gets sacrificed to the mob and yup, that’s… tense. It’s a fascinating little game that uncannily manages to recreate the feeling of a group of people turning into self-serving monsters when their backs are against the wall, but it also gets real personal real quick.