Deadwood is a board game published by Cheapass Games in 1999 in which players are actors trying to get roles in B-movies. The game proved popular, and was nominated for an Origins Award.
Description
Deadwood is a game for 2-8 players where they spend their time trying to win roles as supporting or leading actors in low-budget movies.
Components
The game has a sheet of rules, a deck of 50 Scene cards; and an 4-piece board representing the movie lot of Deadwood Studios. Three years later, Andy Vetromile reviewed Dead: On Location and commented that the game was "an improvement in many ways over the first production, and a simple and inexpensive one that Deadwood Studios USA, Cheapass Games, and the customer can all appreciate."
French games magazine Backstab reviewed the Deadwood: On Location expansion and rated it 2 out of 5 stars, expressing the wish that it had been a larger expansion.
Games including Deadwood in its "Top 100 Games of 1999".
Awards
At the 1999 Origins Awards, Deadwood was a finalist for "Best Abstract Board Game".