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Mal Ardent

Mal Ardent 2025

8.6 /10
BGG rating
1.5
Weight
5–8
Players
45–60
Minutes
14
Age

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About the Game

HELL HAS BROKEN LOOSE IN SAINT-ANTOINE Bread is cursed... it's driven us all mad! Faithful, pray to restore order, and destroy the possessed! ... Or have you gone mad too?

Mal Ardent (Fiery Evil) is an atmospheric hidden-role game pitting the Faithful against the Possessed.

The world is set in a village ravaged by four plagues: Pestilence, War, Famine and Madness.

Each player will offer a Judge a Prayer card to deliver the village from Evil, while the Possessed, hidden among the Faithful and knowing each other, will have to parasitize the game in order to destroy the village.

The Faithful must take one of the Scourges to Redemption, and the Possessed must draw one of the Scourges into the Evil of the Fiery, which inevitably falls on the village at every turn, trying not to be unmasked.

—description from the designer

L’ENFER S’EST RÉPANDU EN SAINT-ANTOINE Le pain est maudit... il nous a tous rendus fous ! Fidèles, priez pour rétablir l'ordre, et anéantissez les possédés ! ... À moins que vous n'ayez, vous aussi, perdu la raison ?

Mal Ardent est un jeu d'ambiance à rôles cachés où s'affrontent Fidèles et Possédés.

L’univers s’installe dans un village rongé par quatre fléaux : la Malepeste, la Guerre, la Famine et la Folie.

Chaque joueur proposera à un Juge une carte Prière pour délivrer le village du Mal, alors que les Possédés, cachés parmi les Fidèles et se connaissant entre eux, devront parasiter la partie afin d’anéantir le village.

Les Fidèles devront emmener l’un des Fléaux vers la Rédemption et les Possédés devront tirer l’un des Fléaux vers le Mal des Ardents, qui s’abat inéluctablement sur le village à chaque tour, en tâchant de ne pas être démasqués.

—description from the designer (French)

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