Bloodborne: The Card Game is based on the Chalice Dungeons in the video game Bloodborne — the ever-changing labyrinths and tombs carved out by the Great Ones beneath the fallen city of Yharnam, where horrifying creatures reside. Players compete to kill monsters and take their blood.

In general, Bloodborne is a game about risk management with a bit of group think, inventory management/upgrades, and tactical play. You start with a hand of basic weapons, which you get to upgrade to improve your fighting combos and capabilities.

Each turn, one monster chosen at random attacks players, who fight back as a team, with everyone playing a card from their hand simultaneously to attempt to kill the monster. Players collect blood from the monster, assuming it dies, based on how much damage they dealt. Monsters can fight back with exploding dice that can potentially deal infinite damage.

Players can fight as long as they want, but if they die in combat, they lose their progress. Players can opt out of fighting to bank their blood and save it permanently. Collected blood counts as victory points.

The Blood Rage: 5th Player Expansion introduces the mighty Ram clan into Blood Rage! This clan comes complete with 8 Warrior figures (in two different sculpts), 1 Leader Figure, 1 Ship figure, 1 Clan Sheet, 1 Plastic Glory Marker, 4 cardboard Clan tokens, 11 small colored bases, and 2 large colored bases.

This expansion introduces the option of playing Blood Rage with 5 players. The game board supports this by simply not having any province destroyed by Ragnarök before the beginning of the game. However, more players need more cards, so this expansion box comes with 24 "Gods' Gifts" cards (8 for each Age deck). All of these cards have the "5+" players pre-requisite listed on them. While most of them are extra copies of cards from the base game, there are a few new ones, like the "Widespread!" Quest, where you need to dominate any 2 provinces.

Known by many names (Seiðmenn, Völva, Vísendakona, etc.) and possessed of different powers granted by their connection to the gods, these warrior-shamans will be a boon to any clan able to recruit them!

Mystics are special units (neither Warrior nor Monster) that players can only employ once they've given their clan one of the Mystic Clan Upgrades. Each of these Clan upgrades adds 1 Mystic figure to your clan's reserves, which you can then use to Invade and battle normally. All Mystics have STR 2 and the special ability that allows them to Invade at no Rage cost. Clans are only able to recruit a maximum of 2 Mystics.

Besides adding Mystics to your reserves, each of these Clan Upgrades grants your Mystics a special ability. If you collect several different upgrades, each of your Mystics will posses all the abilities you accumulated, making them incredibly resourceful and strategic additions to your clan!

The Gods of Ásgard expansion:

Only two gods will be part of each game session. Randomly draw two god cards and place them next to the board so all players can see their powers. At the end of the initial setup, shuffle the Ragnarök tokens that are not on the board or on the Age Track and draw two of them. Look at the names of the two provinces listed on the tokens and place each god figure in one of them (these Ragnarök tokens are then put aside).

Each god's ability is always in effect, changing the rules of the province they're in. The rest of the provinces are not affected. After a player attempts to pillage a province containing a god figure, whether he succeeds in the pillaging or not, he must then move the god to a different unpillaged province that does not contain a god figure. So the two gods can never occupy the same province, and they never go to a pillaged or destroyed province.

At the beginning of the 2nd and 3rd Ages, the two gods are again placed in random provinces, determined by drawing 2 unused Ragnarök tokens.

The combination of the two gods used in each game creates a unique texture to that session. They affect draft choices and influence the flow of the battles. Will your try to benefit from a god's power again and again by moving him where you want and always pillaging his province? Or will you do your best to neutralize him by pillaging around his province? Perhaps you'll want to attempt a hopeless pillage on his province just to move him onto another province where he will hinder another player's plans. They add a whole new layer to the game, without adding hardly any complexity to the rules.

The miniatures each come with a tarot-sized God card.

Ragnarök, das Ende der Welt, rückt unaufhaltsam näher. Es bleibt dir nur, deinem Clan seinen rechtmäßigen Platz in Wallhall zu sichern. Erlange als Anführer deines Clans Ruhm durch siegreiche Schlachten und Plünderungen und erfülle die von den Göttern gestellten Aufgaben. In Blood Rage bringen die Spieler ihre Armeen von fantastisch gestalteten Miniaturen in der Welt rund um Yggdrasil in Position und führen sie in die Schlacht. Nur wer seinen Clan mit der besten Strategie anführt, verdient sich seinen Platz in der sagenumwobenen Ruhmeshalle der Götter.

Der Krieg der Vampirclans ist vorbei und nur wenige haben ihn überlebt. Seid ihr dazu bestimmt, eure Brüder und Schwestern zu vereinen und den feindlichen Clanführer zu vernichten? Die Vampirclans gediehen und breiteten sich aus – viel zu schnell. Mit dem darauffolgenden, unvermeidlichen Konflikt begann der Untergang der Unsterblichen und sie starben in Scharen. Nur die mächtigsten Kinder der Nacht überlebten den Krieg und verbargen sich daraufhin in den Schatten. Viele Jahre später wagten sich die Ältesten ihrer Clans wieder hervor und begannen mit der Suche nach überlebenden Clanmitgliedern – und mit der Jagd nach ihrem Feind. Das letzte Gefecht steht kurz bevor.

Blood Bound ist ein Spiel der Täuschung und Deduktion für sechs bis zwölf Spieler. Als Mitglieder verfeindeter Vampirclans agieren die Spieler im Verborgenen, planen Attacken, Verschwörungen und Intrigen in dem verzweifelten Versuch, Freund und Feind zu unterscheiden und letzten Endes den Führer des verfeindeten Clans zur Strecke zu bringen. Blood Bound stürzt die Spieler in eine spannungsgeladene Welt voller Misstrauen, Ungewissheit, Intrige und überraschender Wendungen.