Are you ready to be truly frightened by a board game? Do you want to experience horror in a way that perhaps no other tabletop game has attempted before now? Then welcome to Dawn of Madness.
Dawn of Madness is a true horror experience in a board game. It is a 1-4 player story-driven cooperative game that takes place over a variable-length campaign. As a Wanderer who has been ripped from your old reality, you now find yourself in a nightmarish Otherworld surrounded by things that, while horrifically twisted, seem strangely… familiar.
The Otherworld is closing in around you, trying to consume you and devour all that makes you who you are. If you want even the slightest chance of surviving, then you must reclaim the shattered fragments of your mind. This will not be easy, though, because your past and your secrets are hopelessly entwined with sinister paranoia and feverish nightmare. Consequently, the deeper you wander into this world, the more of your life you uncover, the deeper the terror will grow. Still, you know you must. Because there is no other way to escape the Otherworld.
Set in the same universe as the breakout hit board game Deep Madness, Dawn of Madness is a completely standalone, distinctive, and terrifying gaming experience – one that we hope you will want to return to again and again.
Long before Deep Madness, before Kadath, before the Leng Corporation, there was the Golden Dawn: A religious organization founded on the idea that humankind could ascend beyond the limits of mortal flesh and become a boundless conscious entity – a true god on earth. As science advanced in the early 20th century, the church moved past simply believing in their transcendence, and instead began to test ways to make it happen. A mysterious relic seemed to shine a light on the way forward, but initial tests were bloody, painful failures to put it mildly. Realizing this would not be a quick success, the church implemented a long-term, widespread experiment – one that stretched across continents and centuries. While true success eluded them until their experimental regime spread to the bottom of the ocean (culminating in a strange young woman named Regan), they documented many intriguing results along the way, gleaned from the ashes of hundreds of destroyed lives. These are the stories of those lives.
Every chapter in Dawn of Madness’s campaign focuses on a specific Wanderer’s conscious realm and story. Featuring mind-shattering tales of psychological and visceral horror, each chapter introduces its own unique monsters, cards, story book, and encounters that will only appear in that chapter – as well as four potential endings for that chapter’s Wanderer.
