Horrified: World of Monsters Unboxing and Components Overview

Ravensburger has been a king of releasing moderately priced games to the mass market. Their games, highlighted by the Disney Villainous series, are generally easy to play, look fantastic, and are available at amazing prices. We recently got to look at the next entry in the Horrified series, Horrified: World of Monsters, and are really impressed with the components and overall look of the game. Let’s take a deeper dive into what actually comes in the box!

In Horrified: World of Monsters, players will work cooperatively to take down the games various monsters. The difficulty of the game can be changed based on the number of monsters used each game, as well as which monsters players choose to use. Using items and action points, players will move around the board rescuing civilians, fighting monsters, and much more.

While I wouldn’t say the Horrified series has been a budget board game, it’s definitely aiming for that mass market appeal. This is highlighted by their releases in stores like Target across the United States. And despite being a mass market game, and being relatively inexpensive comparativley to the games releasing in 2024, the components are actually very good! All of the cardboard punchboard tokens are nice and thick, and come out of the punchboard easily. There is quite a lot of cardboard in this game, ranging from character cards and character standees, to item tokens that will go into a bag, and more.

The importance of thick cardboard when it comes to reaching into a bag cannot be overstated. Thin card bends easily in a blind bag, and degrades over time as hands are frequently touching the pieces and drawing them randomly. With nice and thick cardboard pieces, Ravensburger is ensuring that your game will look like new after many plays. Good quality components is pretty important for me – a good game with bad components likely won’t last long on my shelf – I don’t think that will be a problem with Horrified: World of Monsters.

The bag the item tokens are placed into feels like it’s been made from recycled plastic. Even if it hasn’t, imagine the feel of those recycled plastic grocery bags you can get at the store – the quality is similar to that. While I generally do prefer cloth bags over plastic, this bag is pretty solid. It has a nice wide base that allows it to stand easily on the table, and folds down nicely as well when it needs to be stored in the box.

The highlight of this production is two fold – the board, which is beautifully detailed with various locations, and the plastic miniatures that represent the games 4 different monsters. These monster miniatures pair up nicely with the various monster sheets included with the game.

I didn’t take any special note of the card quality in the game because it was a non-factor. This is both a good and bad thing – it’s good because the quality wasn’t so bad that I took notice, but it is bad that the quality wasn’t so good that I took notice. These are average quality cards that you’d likely find in many board games, and there is nothing wrong with that. Since you aren’t handling them often, I think it’s more than OK. If you want, sleeve them up for future games!

I’m really impressed with what Ravensburger has been doing over the past few years, and the quality of this game just highlights how much the company is doing to bring board games to the mass market. The price is right, and the components are great. That’s key to establishing brand new board game players, at least in my opinion!