Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories is going to beat you, probably several times, and that is the reason we keep setting it up again. It earns 2/5 Bamboo from us because the rules are genuinely heavy and your first session involves a lot of page-flipping, and 4/5 Pandas because when a group finally coordinates and holds the line together, very little else feels like that. This category collects everything we have written about it.

Start with the honest review, which does not pretend the teaching burden is small. Then sort out your table: the monk powers guide explains all four monks and, more usefully, how they are supposed to cover for each other rather than each player freelancing.

Most groups lose early and assume the game is simply unfair. Our five principles for beating Wu-Feng explain what actually separates the tables that win from the ones that never do, and the difficulty levels breakdown walks through all four settings from Initiate to Master so you can start somewhere survivable. If you are still choosing a co-op for the shelf, Ghost Stories vs Pandemic is the honest comparison between the two everyone names first.