
Mechanisms
- Area Movement
- Dice Rolling
- Dungeon Crawler
- Escape Game
- Release
- 10/2026
- Publisher
- Aces Games
- Designers
- Simone Morini
- Languages
- English
- Age
- 18+
VHS: Return of the Living Dead is the officially licensed tabletop role-playing game based on Dan O'Bannon's 1985 cult horror classic, created to celebrate the movie's 40th anniversary.
Powered by the VHS: Very Horror Stories system, the game brings the movie straight to the table, recreating its iconic characters, creatures and locations, from the Uneeda Medical Supply and Resurrection Funeral Home to the infamous Tarman and the brain-hungry undead.
Designed to capture the movie's unique blend of horror, dark comedy and punk-rock madness, the game introduces dedicated mechanics such as the BRAINS! Condition, contaminated rain, Trioxin barrels and events inspired directly by scenes from the film. Players can experience ready-to-play Films with or without a Game Master, including a fully supported Solo Mode.
Presented in the distinctive VHS-inspired format of the series, VHS: Return of the Living Dead combines tabletop role-playing with maps, cards, tokens, miniatures and other physical components to recreate the feeling of stepping inside an '80s horror movie.
It's time to go back to Resurrection Cemetery. The dead have risen... and they're hungry for BRAINS!
Inside the box:
Complete Rulebook
5 playable Characters
4 Monsters and 2 Secondary Horrors
2 Non-protagonist Actors
5 ready-to-play Films
3 Maps
BRAINS! card
40 Tokens
3 Vehicles tokens
14 Miniatures
5 contamination bases