Last Year Five Against the Fiend

Every match puts five Classmates against one player-controlled Fiend, and the humans only get out by working together. You pick one of six Classmates and assign them a Class with special skills, so your team can cover scanners, healing, tools and whatever else the night demands. The better you coordinate, the longer you live, and the more you survive, the more Arcane Secrets you unlock: magic that lets you stop running and start hitting back. It is a game where shouting "regroup" into voice chat is a legitimate strategy. Going it alone is how you end up as a cautionary tale for the other four.

Take the Fiend's seat and the match flips. You play a supernatural horror archetype with its own powers, weapons and play-style, and you decide how cruel to be. Charge in head-on and force the Classmates to scatter, or play it slow: lay traps before the hunt starts, prepare ambushes along their route, and toy with your prey while they try to finish their objectives. A patient Fiend can be worse than an aggressive one, because the Classmates never know which one they are facing. It is the role for anyone who has watched too many slasher films and thought "I could do that better."

The setup is pure horror-movie material: classmates pulled into a twisted copy of their hometown through an occult card game, where their last year of school might literally be their last. The game leans into it, with a dark, atmospheric tone, gore and violence it does not apologise for. Matches are fast and tense, with the Classmates crafting supplies and pushing objectives while the Fiend thins the group one by one.