Monsters are scary, but the best Halloween board games prove that your bog-standard people are infinitely worse – and Unfathomable does it better than most.

Yes, I know. "People are the real monsters" isn't a new or particularly revelatory angle. But Unfathomable doesn't grab the low-hanging fruit; it makes you work to prove your depravity instead. That's because it blends together classic horror board game fare (battling terrors who'd really like to eat you) with deception mechanics, and this is lightning in a bottle. Fighting monsters? That's fun. Having to do all that while working out which player is a traitor? My god, that's so much better – and the result helps it stand out from the best Halloween board games.

Although it's got a higher price tag at full whack, I find that Unfathomable is rarely without a discount of some kind at Amazon. A good saving takes it below $75, or under £80 if you're based in the UK.

Whisking us back to the 1920s where prohibition was the latest fad and gangsters eloquently settled their differences by way of 'tommy gun,' you play passengers of a cruise ship heading across the ocean. Unfortunately, this will be far from a relaxing vacation; a couple of days after leaving port, storms roll in and the ocean begins to boil with activity. Soon, unspeakable creatures are crawling out of the ocean and onto your ship… directed by something titanic that you can barely see in the darkness.

This is one half of Unfathomable's gameplay: hold off these 'Deep Ones' and stop them from destroying the ship or draining its resources, all while repairing anything they do happen to wreck.

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