Now, this is scary, but it's one of my wife's favorite games... because "we work together." That's right, this is one of those 'players vs. the game system' games... a monopoly-like outer track allows you to build skills & resources, while a map of Dark America in the center of the board allows you to chase down manifestations of the evil attempting to take ov-er our not-so-fair civilization.

The basic theme of the game reminds me a bit of the classic Swamp Thing story arc "American Gothic" by Alan Moore. (issues 35-50, if I remember right)... how evil is increasing the fear level in the world in order to prepare for something unspeakable to happen.

(Note: there is a board error... one of the start spaces - I can't remember which... it's noted in the rule book but I missed it the first couple of times we played.) Lots of dice-rolling, a bit of a role-playing (in the character development - which isn't a surprise, as it was based on an rpg system), a reasonably tough card-driven game system... and not much else.

The best thing the game has going for it is the "Fear Meter" (not the game term for it) that tracks how much fear each of the four groups has generated... it's nerve-wracking to battle back one group only to see another rise.

There's an expansion set entitled Minion Nation... the last copies I've seen of Minion Hunter had a sticker on the box saying Minion Nation was packaged with it. (The expansion expands the encounter charts - a good thing - and adds some new cards and variant rules.)

In short, we've had a lot of fun with it. It's not deep, the artwork in the cards is black/white (nice board, though), and it certainly isn't close as a gaming experience to many other good and/or great games... but, like I said, my wife enjoys it and it's fun to play with non-gamer fans who are into sci-fi/horror.

Does that help?