The Creature That Ate Sheboygan
BGG rank
BGG #6,851
BGG rating
6.5

The Creature That Ate Sheboygan

1979

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  • 2 players
  • 90 min
  • 10+
  • Complexity 1.7/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for The Creature That Ate Sheboygan

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The Creature That Ate Sheboygan is a board game released in 1979 for 2 players, 90 minutes per game, and ages 10 and up. It was designed by Greg Costikyan and its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers, Area Movement, and Dice Rolling.

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About the game

The Creature That Ate Sheboygan is a fabulous game where one gets to "wreak havoc with the monster of your choice". You design a monster (Godzilla, Mothra, The Really Big Slug, etc.) and then try to destroy as much of Sheboygan as possible; the opponent scrambles civilians out of the way, then sends in the police and eventually the Army. Great fun! Spawned numerous imitators, such as the old Epyx computer game "Crush, Crumble & Chomp", or more recent games such as "Super Giant Monster Showdown".

Publishers

  • Hobby Japan
  • Encore
  • SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
  • Simpubs Ltd. (SPUK)
  • Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd. (国際通信社)

Questions and answers

The Creature That Ate Sheboygan supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.