Episode 283: Inferno

Inspired by the narrative poem The Divine Comedy, in which Dante journeys through hell in search of his beloved Beatrice, The Board Game Inferno designed by Fernado Eduardo Sanchez and Published by Grand Gamers Guild is a "souls management" game where you take strategic actions to guide naughty sinners to their rightful level of hell.

Initially in a turn you can pay a dracma to move a soul from the graveyard to the first level of hell or you can move a soul that is already in hell to a desired location. Why would you want to do that, you ask? Well because that is how you select the action you are going to take in the next phase of your turn. Each level of hell has locations that correspond to actions you can take in the next phase of the game. You can move any soul whether you started its journey or not. If the soul reaches the appropriate level of hell for its sin as denoted by the meeple matching the color of the level of hell, you score some points.

Without getting too far in the weeds, In the action phase in Inferno, you do one of 10 actions which matches the spot in hell that soul you placed now resides. The actions all support this movement of the souls, sets you up for other actions that benefit the cause, like scoring some end game points or increasing your tower size to hold more goods or sinners. You place one of your workers on that location to take the action. Once you run out of workers you have to accuse someone!

The stipulations are, you must accuse one of your workers that is in the location space that corresponds to the action space you placed a soul on in hell and if applicable you may have to have a certain color guest staying in your tower. When you accuse someone the primary benefit, besides returning all of your workers, is it moves you up one of the tracks that MAY score you end game points. Those accusations move Dante down the levels of hell and function as a timer for the game. After he reaches the final level, end game scoring occurs. Which consists of some cards, a multiplier for those tracks I mentioned earlier that can be manipulated during the game. A few other things but those are the biggies.

Now back to the studio where we find out if the devil is in the details or if this is a hell of a good game with Inferno from Red Mojo and Grand Gamers Guild.