Shadow Hunters is a social deduction board game designed by Yasutaka Ikeda that was first published in 2005 by Game Republic in Japan. The game was published in the United States by Z-Man Games in 2008. The art style of the game closely resembles the style found in Japanese anime and manga. Players are secretly assigned the role of a character belonging to one of three factions: Shadows, which are supernatural creatures of the night, Hunters, which are humans attempting to exterminate the Shadows, and Neutrals, which are unaffiliated characters who are caught in the crossfire with individual victory conditions. Each player does not know the identity or allegiance of any other player, and must use cards, negotiation, and guesswork to figure out who everyone else is. The game ends when one or more players have fulfilled their victory conditions, at which point all players who have fulfilled their objectives are declared winners, whether they are part of the same faction or even alive.
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1. Shadow Hunters (Wikipedia)
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Shadow Hunters is a social deduction board game
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that was first published in 2005 by Game Republic in Japan
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