Plaid Hat Games will unleash a game of competitive monster creation with Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein this summer.

Set 20 years after the events of the classic horror novel, each player takes the role of a scientist madly trying to construct a viable being to satisfy their mysterious benefactor. Players must place their assistants across the city of Paris, to position themselves to benefit from scientific findings, charge the Leyden jars, and scavenge in local cemeteries. The ultimate goal is to bring a creature to life, but if that doesn’t happen, after 12 rounds, the player with the most victory points wins.

The box contains 1 Paris board, 1 event board, 4 laboratory boards, 8 shock dice, 4 anatomy cards, 6 character cards, 15 encounter cards, 19 event cards, 16 humanity cards, 16 research cards, 16 scoundrel cards, 52 cadaver cards, 1 captain meeple, 1 first player creature meeple, 16 scientist meeples, 12 assistant meeples, 42 Francs, 4 ice block tokens, 16 leyden jar tokens, 170 material cubes, 30 monster body part tokens, 28 damage markers, 4 player score markers, 6 bonus objective markers, 1 bribe and bump track, 4 event markers, 12 police markers, 4 player reference cards, 24 alive markers, 12 plastic connector sets, and rules. MSRP is $59.95.

Asmodee North America Head of Publishing Steve Horvath teased this game in a recent interview with ICv2 (see “ICv2 Interview: Asmodee North America Head of Publishing Steve Horvath”).