The Hills Rise Wild is a fast-play miniatures game where two to four families race to capture the Necronomicon and summon their favorite deity.

The board tiles are all created in a three-dimensional computer graphics program and then rendered from an overhead perspective. A red bar on the wall of the shack shows you where the door is, while silver bars mark the windows. Furniture within a shack has no effect on game play; it's just for fun. Some shacks are full of sinister goo, bloodstains, or other mysterious Lovecraftian elements.

Each shack includes one of thirty-two Mystery Cards, included in the game, which contain items and events that may help or hurt you.

As the game begins, the players send their characters out to do battle and search the shacks. You're all looking for the Great Whateley Seal, with which you can open the largest building in the game: Whateley Manor. The Manor has its own set of Mystery Cards, one of which will be the notorious book of sinister magic, the Necronomicon.

When you recover the Necronomicon, you better start hustling--because now there's a big target on your back! You need to get the book back to your home base tile and start making rolls to summon your god and win the game, all the while holding off the attacks of your rivals. If you can summon your god before it's too late, you win!

The Hills Rise Wild! is a fun, fast-paced game full of smackdown combat and dramatic reversals. Even in the final minutes of a game, it's not uncommon for an unexpected winner to emerge thanks to a desperate gambit, careful strategy, or a lucky roll of the dice.

The game includes four factions of six characters each: the Marsh Clan, the DeGhoule Clan, the Whateley Clan, and the Cult of Ezekiel. Two to four players choose a faction and start battling it out. The characters are represented as color cardstock figures, illustrated by Delta Green co-creator Dennis Detwiller.