![]() ![]() You are getting bombarded on all sides with adventures and monsters being added. The game feels like a digital embodiment of the “this is fine” meme. There is also a timing mechanic which, every few turns at the stroke of midnight, will expedite your death by adding monsters and/or doom tokens to the game. Monsters sit on adventures and act as another task that requires completing. Doom tokens bring the Ancient One closer to victory and when the limit is hit, the game immediately ends as the Ancient One escapes. Some adventures will punish you with doom tokens or by adding monsters to the board. If either hit zero, that investigator is out of the game. This is usually some form of damage to your investigator, which is measured by stamina and sanity. Should you fail an adventure, and you will definitely fail adventures, you receive the punishment described by the adventure. This is usually in the form of various special effects, but can also be Elder Signs which bring you closer to victory. Each adventure will hand out trophies, which can be traded for cool stuff at the entrance, and some other goodies. If an adventure is completed successfully, the loot from the adventure is acquired. On the plus side, you do get to lock in one die value for the next roll after an unsuccessful attempt, which is minor consolation. With each roll that fails to complete a task, one die must be removed from the subsequent rolls, which is a brutal mechanic that allows you to watch your hopes of victory slowly slip out of your hands. In order to complete this task, the die must show at least one peril and the investigate sides must add up to three or more (each investigate face has numbers from one to three, and you may combine them to reach the required total). A sample task might require three investigates and a peril. Investigators typically have six green dice to roll which are rolled together, although others can be added as special effects to help your fight. The dice, known as glyphs in the game, have four separate face values: Investigate, Lore, Peril, and Terror. These tasks are completed by achieving specific die rolls. An adventure consists of one or more tasks, all of which must be resolved in order to earn the adventure reward and avoid penalty for failure. The entrance is a place to heal, buy items, or spin a wheel to see what you get, good or bad. Don't waste your 14 $ / E on this.From there, each investigator takes their turn which is comprised of selecting one of a handful of adventures on the board, or the always-present entrance location, and resolving the their selected location. Ultimately I believe whever made this game was sadly just a bunch of freeware amateurs. Overaly very difficult and frustrating game. For example it doesn't seem to let you see parameters (difficulty) of Task, before you undertake it so there's no way to make any strategy and you end up being at complete mercy of bad random number generator that seem to almost make completing the task impossible. The game plays partially differently from the tabletop game. You never see any idicator of where you can / should / shouldn't click and what it will do. The GUI has dozens of changing icons, yet NONE of them has any text explanation or tool tip ! Clearly an artefact of Android version, that nobody bothered to fix in the PC version. ![]() It looks like you are supposed to run the vids multiple times and make 3 pages of notes to play this game. Theres no way to memorize all the stuf that way so at the end you are just more confused. It has SUPER complicated rules (comming straight from tabletop version), but only tutorial or help is in form of videos you have to watch before the game, that just recite the rules in machinegun speed. As soon as I started the PC game I felt ripped off of my 14 Eur ! Its clunky, user unfriendly game that looks like bad games from 95' ! This is very mindless conversion of board game into cellphone game which was in turn badly converted into PC game. ![]() ) I was looking forward to getting this game. As soon as I started the PC game As a fan of table top games from this series (Arkham Horror. ![]() As a fan of table top games from this series (Arkham Horror. ![]()
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