Final Girl

Choose a heroine, Killer, and Location; place figures and victims using a Location Setup card. Normally combine Killer and Location Terror cards and deal ten into the Terror deck. Prepare items and random Finale and Dark Power cards, and begin with the six zero-cost action cards. Apply any additional module setup.

A turn consists of Action, Planning, Killer, Panic, and Upkeep phases. Play action cards in the Action Phase and make Horror Rolls: each 5 or 6 succeeds; each 3 or 4 can become a success by discarding two cards. Resolve the result for zero, one, or at least two successes. Always roll at least one die.

Actions can lose or gain Time. Before the Action Phase ends, each action card discarded for Time grants one Time. Dropping below zero ends the phase after the current action resolves, and Time cannot then be gained to rescue the phase. Being exactly at zero does not end it, and you can voluntarily stop and keep cards.

In Planning, first spend remaining Time on cards in the tableau, respecting a ten-card hand limit and never spending below zero. Available zero-cost cards can still be taken at zero or negative Time. Then reset Time to six, and only afterwards return cards played or discarded since the previous Planning Phase to the tableau, preventing immediate repurchase.

Move along connected paths, taking at most two victims when leaving a space. They will not follow into the Killer’s space. During the Action Phase, victims sharing a green Exit space with the heroine can be rescued; victims alone at exits do not escape automatically. Resolve rescue rewards and flip the heroine’s card to unlock her Ultimate Ability when its rescue spaces are filled.

Use a Search action at a Search space to acquire items. Attacks normally require sharing the Killer’s space unless a ranged effect applies. Weapons usually modify an action that already deals at least one damage and require correct range and equipment. Hands have limited capacity; an item requiring hands cannot be used from the backpack. Rearrange items when acquiring one or during Upkeep.

In the Killer Phase, perform the Killer Action on the Finale card, then draw and resolve a Terror card from top to bottom if the Finale remains unrevealed. Follow targeting, movement, and attack icons rather than automatically pursuing the heroine. An attack normally damages a single target; victim deaths increase Bloodlust. Reaction cards defend the heroine against attacks, not victims.

If a victim died this turn, each victim sharing the Killer’s space panics in the Panic Phase, rolling to follow numbered paths or stay put. In Upkeep, reveal the Finale if the Terror deck is empty; subsequent Killer Phases use the new action without drawing Terror cards. Resolve upkeep effects and optionally rearrange items. Exhausting the deck is not itself defeat.

The general objective is to kill the Killer before the heroine dies; simultaneous deaths count as victory, though modules may change objectives. Reveal a black Final Health token only when damage reaches that remaining health. A blank means death; hidden health revives its owner, immediately ends the current phase, and replaces the token with a white one. Depleting that health again allows no further revival.