Horrible Therapist (Base Edition)

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Horrible Therapist was AMAZZZZZZZING!!! I had way more fun than anticipated. And this is coming from a guy who generally doesn't like NSFW type games. I laughed so much my stomache hurt. We had so many good rounds full of laughter all around. I loved how the "judge" aka therapist in this game actually had a part to play in creating the 3 slide comic. We played 3 full rounds and at the end of the night my friends all asked, "when are we playing this again?" I've never seen my friend group take so fondly, so quickly, to a new game like this one. My only suggestion would be to have your own house rule about increasing the victory points. I had a group of 5 and twice we had someone win 3 before a second round occurred. 3 seemed to few, and we all agreed.

Horrible Therapist (Extra Horrible Edition) is hands down one of the funniest card games I’ve played. The concept of creating a comic about therapy with ridiculous question and treatment cards had us in dying every round. With tons of cards and endless combinations, no two games are ever alike, which keeps things super fresh. It’s easy to learn and perfect for groups like ours, making it a go-to for our game nights and parties. If you like irreverent humor and can laugh at some dark jokes, this game is a must-have!

Clearly I'm not the right audience for this game, so I don't fault it so much for being obscenely gross, lurid, unsettlingly explicit and outrageously graphic, as much as I do for what I think was a lack of fair warning about how broadly (and wildly) inappropriate this game is. Other games by this same company are conveniently and clearly enough labeled as NSFW, so whereas the base edition of this game is rated "17 and up," I don't think I was in any way prepared to expect it to be anything other than highly suggestive and thematically "adult," even cringe-worthy; this, I think is clearly how the game is marketed. Lest anyone dismiss this as prudish, I'd like to detail some of what's illustrated on *many* of these cards to give fair warning to consumers (such as genitalia and forced consumption of fecal matter), but I'm frankly concerned my review would get (ironically) flagged. Look: to each their own—I just wish I had gotten any kind of a reasonable head's up about what's actually contained in this game (not just the mild and arguably misleading preview cards shown), so I'm trying to offer as much to someone else.

What's a shame is that I think this could have been such a fun game I could have played with family and friends to whom I could in *no way* show this to—and there could have easily been a NSFW expansion for those into that sort of thing. My spouse and I even tried playing through and seeing if we could sort out the NSFW cards and still leave ourselves a more…

Fun game, but for the treatment cards, we had SOOOO many repeats. Because we’re petty, we counted every card. There were only 86 unique treatment cards out of 200. Nearly half of the cards had 4 or more duplicates. We were very disappointed in the variety of cards, and ended up running out of treatments while we were getting rid of some duplicates that we had seen too many times. There were 24 single cards, 25 doubles, 19 triples, 12 cards with 4, 5 cards with 5, and one treatment that had 7. While it was a fun game, it got boring and predictable really quickly.