Festival of Monsters: Monstrous Games

Name: Festival of Monsters: Monstrous Games
Start: 2026-10-17T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-17T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Game Santa Cruz

October 17 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Free

The 2026 Festival of Monsters image is a monstrous banana slug rampaging across a city, like a kaiju.

Join players at Game Santa Cruz for a three free sessions of monster-related board and card games on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, as part of the Festival of Monsters, sponsored the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies.

Monstrous Games session number 1 at 2 p.m. includes Gloom and Mysterium. Monstrous Games session number 2 at 3 p.m. features This Game is Killer. Session number 3 at 4 p.m. includes The Bloody Inn and Moon Colony Bloodbath

All of these sessions are free, but ticketed for space constraints. Sign up at https://www.gamesantacruz.com/events. Game Santa Cruz is located at 1101 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz.