Gates of Delirium

You have finally set out to find the truth. The stories about ancient runes and lost pages from a torn book will not let you go. They speak of age-old creatures begging to return. Everyone who went before you on this quest slowly lost their mind. And now you feel your own grip on reality starting to slip. Sometimes you lose hours of the day without knowing where they went. The whispers about secret gates to another world grow louder and louder. Nobody knows who is building them, but deep down you have a suspicion you would rather not say out loud. In Gates of Delirium you play with cards that have two sides: a sane side and a mad side. Each round one player decides whether the round is lucid or insane, and everyone then plays that side of their cards. During lucid rounds you search for cards and lost pages, and you put investigators to work to help you. During mad rounds you collect ancient runes and work on the gates that will set the creatures free. Exactly the creatures your other self is trying so hard to understand and hold back. This game for two to four players takes about 45 minutes and is full of tension right up to the last move. Whoever has collected the most points when the last creature is released wins. An evening full of double choices, in which you never know quite which side of yourself will win out.