Dreadquarters

🤯 Less than 70 Hours Left + Community City Deck Winner: Innsmouth
4 months ago – Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 09:58:03 AM

Build Your Dreadquarters Near a Familiar Locale

The second Community-Choice Expansion Deck for Dreadquarters will be Innsmouth!

With an overwhelming 49% of the vote, Innsmouth was the clear winner for the next City Deck for Dreadquarters! Canonically located less than an hour's drive from Headlock Games, Innsmouth is a fictional Massachusetts fishing town with a terrible secret and inhabitants who have been... changed. Created by H.P. Lovecraft in his 1936 novella "The Shadow over Innsmouth", the town is chock full of inspiration for exciting new invaders, mechanics, and threats.

As the community has chosen, we will add Innsmouth as a City Deck in the Dreadquarters Community Expansion, allowing players to show the residents of Innsmouth that there's an even greater evil to worry about than their own.

Like the other community choice decks, we will commission unique card frames and dozens of original illustrations from human artists to bring this deck to life. Despite the absurd nature of this game, we care a lot about being respectful to source material, so don't expect a generic "just add tentacles!" interpretation of Innsmouth. We will work alongside the community on our Discord server to iterate on the theme and mechanics, and we hope you'll join the conversation!

Final Hours of the Dreadquarters Kickstarter

We are officially in the final stretch of the campaign! This is your last chance to back, and also your last chance to vote on the Community Choice Hazard Deck! The campaign ends on Fri, June 12 2026 10:00 AM EDT. We'll announce the winner of the Community Choice Hazard Deck once the campaign closes, and then we'll have one last poll for a "Second Chance" Deck. 

In the meantime, let us know in the comments if you'd like to see more art for a specific deck. Don't forget, you can also learn to play Dreadquarters right now, and the Tabletop Simulator is also available for play!

Thank you all for your support! This has been a wonderful ride, and we are so glad you joined us!

👏 Final Days + Last Stretch Goal Reached!
4 months ago – Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 12:03:24 PM

68k?! Are you guys serious?

You've absolutely blown this campaign out of the water! We are in the final days of the campaign and you've pushed through all of our planned stretch goals. You all must really love villains! 

All that being said, we aren't done yet! We have a few more polls to complete. The Community Built Expansion Hazard Deck requests have been closed now that we reached the next stretch goal!

Community Choice Hazard Deck Poll

Below is the poll that includes Paul and Dan's choices from the community submitted Hazard Deck ideas. These were some of our favorite concepts pulled from your submissions.

1. Dimensional Incursions
2. Kaiju attack
3. Kraken
4. Heist
5. Infestation

Again, there were so many great ideas here! But we had to make sure to narrow things down based on overall fit with Dreadquarters, as well as avoiding overlap with content we're already developing, and making sure each option offers a strong, distinct gameplay identity.

Just because an idea didn’t make this poll doesn’t mean it wasn’t awesome. Many were very close calls, and we had to make some tough decisions to keep things focused and cohesive. 

Whichever option receives the most votes will be made into a full Hazard Deck. We’ll commission original art and bring the concept to life. We'll also have design discussions, iteration, and playtesting happening for this deck in our Discord, so make sure to join in!

Community Choice Second Chance!

Since you got us to $68k and blasted through all of our stretch goals, we decided to run a "Second Chance" Community Deck! Once we close the poll on the Community Choice Hazard Deck, we'll open up one last poll where you can vote on one more additional deck chosen from the ideas that didn't win. 

Stay tuned! And don't forget to vote for the Community Choice Hazard Deck below!

🥇 Community Villain Deck Winner + Reddit AMA
4 months ago – Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 11:31:50 AM

The Community Has Spoken!

The first Community-Choice Dreadquarters expansion deck will be The Corporation.

Last week, we unlocked one of our most exciting stretch goals: A community-designed expansion for Dreadquarters! The first deck in this expansion is a villain deck, and we put it to a vote, which came down to the wire with 3 concepts cutting it incredibly close!

We're happy to announce that the next villain deck will be The Corporation, (squeaking by and winning by a single vote over Dinosaurs and Aliens). We don't have any art to share for this deck yet, because this deck will be designed alongside the community on our Discord server. 

Will it actually be called "The Corporation"? What will the core mechanics be? What will it command? Will it be a dark and serious take on corrupt organizations, or a buzzword-infested satire of corporate life? What will the art inspirations be? Join the conversation and help it take shape!

As we design this deck together, we will commission unique card frames and dozens of original illustrations from human artists, just like we did for every other deck in Dreadquarters. This isn't something we were holding up our sleeves for an inevitable reveal - we truly want your input, and we're willing to put our money where our mouth is to prove it.

Reddit AMA

Last thing (at least for now): We will be hosting an AMA on Reddit at /r/boardgames on Thursday, June 11, at 11am EST. Come join us and ask us anything about Dreadquarters, game design, our experience with developing and launching a game like this, discuss the game mechanics for different decks, chat about your ideas for future decks, or whatever you might think of! 

🌃 City Deck Poll + New Stretch Goal Unlocked!
4 months ago – Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 03:26:58 PM

Next Strech Goal Reached!

We are feeling so excited about reaching the next stretch goal in the Community Expansion Build! Just absolutely blown away not only by the support, but by your ideas! You are all going to help make Dreadquarters that much better by offering up ideas on what you'd like to see in this board game. Can't wait to see these decks realized.

The Community Built Expansion City Deck requests have been closed now that we reached the next stretch goal!

Community Voting Event

$64k also unlocked the next community expansion voting event - a Community Choice Hazard Deck! Drop your idea (limit one idea per person, please! We will not consider ideas from those who submit more than one) in the comments of this update for what you'd like the next Hazard Deck to be. Here are a few examples of our current Hazard Decks:

The HOA
What if your evil fortress was subject to Homeowners Association bylaws and regulations? This hazard deck forces players to adapt to rapidly changing requirements and occasionally exploit the odd loophole. 

Insolence
What if your minions weren't exactly the most loyal or competent? When the Insolence hazard deck is in play, your minions behave more erratically. Sometimes they'll show initiative and go above and beyond without being asked, and sometimes they'll dismantle your finely calibrated traps to build a break room.

Weather
The Weather Hazard Deck impedes and aids invaders with extreme weather events on their way to your lair. Perhaps they'll arrived exhausted and be easier to defeat, or maybe a tornado will disrupt your carefully laid plans.

Siegecraft
Sometimes invaders aren't just angry villagers. Once in a while, they're highly trained tacticians. The Siegecraft Hazard Deck allows invaders to adopt military and siege tactics when approaching your lair.

Power Struggle
Cooperating as villains isn't always easy, and sometimes the biggest dangers to your lair aren't external. The Power Struggle Hazard Deck forces you to rethink how you approach and fortify your allies' territory. While you might be feeling cooperative, your minions might have their own ideas.

City Deck Poll

In the meantime, below is the poll that includes Paul and Dan's choices from the community submitted City Deck ideas. These were some of our favorite concepts pulled from your submissions.

There were so many great ideas! But we had to make the hard choices when narrowing things down based on overall fit with Dreadquarters, as well as avoiding overlap with content we're already developing, and making sure each option offers a strong, distinct gameplay identity.

Just because an idea didn’t make this poll doesn’t mean it wasn’t awesome. Many were very close calls, and we had to make some tough decisions to keep things focused and cohesive. 

Here are the final options for the community City Deck. These are temporary names - We'll let the community weigh in via Discord.

1. Permafrost (Prehistoric City)
2. Innsmouth (Lovecraftian Invaders)
3. Sunken City (Inspired by Atlantis or R'lyeh)
4. Brinewick (Pirate City)
5. Tombstone (Wild West)

Whichever option receives the most votes will be made into a full City Deck. We’ll commission original art and bring the concept to life. We'll also have design discussions, iteration, and playtesting happening for this deck in our Discord, so make sure to join in!

Next Stretch Goal

Our next unlock will happen at $68k! Once we hit this number, we'll release our picks from your submissions for the next Hazard Deck for a final community choice poll. AT $68k, we'll also be unlocking a "Second Chance" Community Deck - more details when we get there!

As always, thank you all so much for your support! Talk more soon!

👀 Villain Deck Poll + New Stretch Goal Unlocked!
4 months ago – Sun, May 31, 2026 at 08:51:57 AM

Magnificent work, villains! 

The Community Built Expansion Villain Deck requests have been closed now that we reached the next stretch goal!

$60k also unlocked the next community expansion voting event - a Community Choice City Deck! Drop your idea (limit one idea per person, please! We will not consider ideas from those who submit more than one) in the comments of this update for what you'd like the next City Deck to be. Here are a few examples of our current City Decks:

Haven
Inspired by classic high fantasy tropes, haven is a small village in the countryside full of adventurers, either residing there or passing through. Notable cards include Rogues, who temporarily disable traps in rooms, Defenders who absorb damage for their allies, and Mercenaries who sell their services to the highest bidder and find themselves switching parties prior to invasions.

Asteria
Asteria is a colony on a distant planet, resembling mars. The deck is inspired by 1960’s-1970’s retrofuturistic themes and features a scientists, colonists, and soldiers studying the mysteries of this planet. Within the deck are also dangerous alien monsters, attracted by the players’ activities and the construction from colonists. Unique to this deck, the creatures are hostile to both colonists and players, and the colonists often arrive in vehicles which affect how they enter the dreadquarters.

Grafton
Grafton is a fictionalized version of 1920’s New York City overrun and under the control of organized crime. Notable cards include Protection Racket, which extorts resources from the player under the threat of additional invaders, and the “Emergency Sit Down”, in which invaders hold off for a turn in order to plan a stronger attack in greater numbers the following turn.

The team will choose a handful of their favorite ideas from those comments, and we'll run a poll for you all to vote on which one becomes a reality. Once the deck is chosen, we will commission original illustrations, card frames, and a unique logo for the winning City deck, as well as work with the community on the mechanics and do playtesting in our Discord server!

Villain Deck Poll

In the meantime, below is the poll that includes Paul and Dan's choices from the community submitted Villain Deck ideas. These were some of our favorite concepts pulled from your submissions.

 While we saw a ton of great ideas, we narrowed things down based on overall fit with Dreadquarters, avoiding overlap with content we're already developing, and making sure each option offers a strong, distinct gameplay identity.

Just because an idea didn’t make this poll doesn’t mean it wasn’t awesome. Many were very close calls, and we had to make some tough decisions to keep things focused and cohesive. 

Here are the final options for the community villain deck. These are temporary names - We'll let the community weigh in via Discord.

👽 The Visitors (Aliens)
🏴‍☠️ The Reckoning (Pirates)
🏢 The Corporation (Corruption)
🪶 The Screech (Harpies)
🦖 The Return (Dinosaurs)

Whichever option receives the most votes will be made into a full Villain Deck. We’ll commission original art and bring the concept to life. We'll also have design discussions, iteration, and playtesting happening for this deck in our Discord, so make sure to join in!

Next Stretch Goal

Our next unlock will happen at $64k! This will be a Community Choice Hazard Deck voting event. Make sure to drop your ideas for the Community Choice City Deck in the comments, and vote for the winning Villain Deck in the poll below!