Game Info
Year
2020
Players
1-6
Age
14+
Playtime
150 min
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Description
A large box expansion that adds Innsmouth and Kingsport with new investigators and four scenarios
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negative
Pros
- Adds more content, scenarios, and characters if you enjoy Arkham Horror Third Edition.
Cons
- Travel routes are inconvenient and slow down the game.
- Terror tokens add unnecessary complications and slow the game down.
- Mechanics feel like they enhance already bad mechanics of the base game.
- Scenarios don't feel thematic or engaging.
- The game feels like a slow sink and a test of endurance rather than progression.
- Clue gathering is a slog and not guaranteed.
- Mythos tokens are slow to resolve and add to game length.
- The expansion enhances the issues of Arkham Horror Third Edition.
- The big box size is seen as padding.
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Comparison games
- Arkham Horror
- Mansions of Madness
- Arkham Horror LCG
- Fallout
- Robinson Crusoe
- Pandemic
- Eldritch Horror
- Talisman
- Marvel Champions
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Encounter cards — The terror deck adds cards to the encounter deck, which can lead to dealing with two encounters instead of one and usually hinder progress.
- Terror Tokens — Replaces anomalies, and when an area gets six doom, a terror token is placed and a card from the terror deck is added to the encounter deck. These tokens and cards are seen as hindering and slowing down the game.
- Travel Routes — Requires players to spend money and turns to travel between locations, which can be inconvenient and slow down the game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- mechanically it just gets in the way of getting around and getting places
- it just expands the board in an absurd way where it's just annoying
- it's just another card that you have to deal with before your actual encounter
- mechanically it just slows things down and gives you unnecessary complications
- it's like now you have to spend influence to get rid of them
- it's just so obscene that I it's like now like I was I'm mentally exhausted from just how drug out one scenario was and it wasn't even exciting
- it's faux difficulty that yeah the expansion like you said just enhances it
- it enhances them it it it actually yes you're right it makes it worse
- it's it's it's just it's it's just a bad time
- this is definitely not my type of game... mechanically overly complicated, overly difficult unnecessary
- Arkham Horror used to be my favorite game
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