The Freddy Game
Here we go back to 30 years for this one. It somehow still had all the pieces too. But old slapstick horror A Nightmare on Elm Street with the man himself Freddy Krueger as the star.
Here we can see the layout of the board and the pieces.
Each person gets a player. Each person has their own fear. Mom is afraid of rodents, and the mailman is afraid of lightning. Now everyone has a hand of cards, four white cards and four black cards. Among the black ones is a you are Freddy card. (make sure to keep it a secret you are Freddy until you have the upper hand) Now the point of the game is to either kill Freddy or Freddy kill each player.
On your first turn, you roll the dice to progress, while on your second turn, you have the option of rolling OR telling a story with the cards in your hand. If you have a hallway card you can move to a different room using room cards.
A story could be like, "I heard moaning in the cellar, so I walked down the hallway with my crowbar. but it wasn't anything but a bunch of Rodents." (the blue words would be the cards) This would let you move from say the gym to the cellar since you have the cellar and the hallway card.
Now you have weapons, but so does Freddy. There are certain cards you can use to defend yourself against Freddy and a combination of cards you will need to kill Freddy. The Mirror kills Freddy no matter what.
Now Freddy can use any combination of weapons while in the same room OR use a fear from anywhere to kill a person. If he fails he gets sent to the boiler room. Now you don't have to say you are Freddy until you go to attack someone, OR someone plays the "Who is Freddy?" card.
I wonder what interesting stories you would be able to come up with.