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From the publisher's website:
In Strange Remnants, you and your fellow investigators travel to the haunted ruins of massive stone monuments across the world. You must learn the secrets of these ruins and perform the requisite rituals before the cosmos aligns against you, an evil portal opens in the center of the universe, and the entire Earth is devoured.
The new Mystic Ruins deck featured in this expansion allows investigators to explore Chichen Itza, the Easter Islands, Stonehenge and the Great Wall of China. New Glamour Spells and Relic Unique Assets offer you powerful tools in the struggle against a new Ancient One, and four more hardy investigators dedicate their lives to saving the human race. Four additional Prelude Cards introduce fresh scenarios and quests, transforming your games of Eldritch Horror.
- Adds a lot of content and value
- Prelude cards add new starting conditions and flavor
- New characters, items, and locations increase variety
- Still holds up well and feels like a modern game
- Highly recommended as the first expansion to buy
- The whole globe-trotting adventure feel is loved
- Sideboards in the expansion are great
- Still in stock and available
- A lot of tiny cards (though the reviewer likes them)
- Implies that once you get this, you'll want all other expansions
- Cosmic horror, adventure
- Globe-trotting
- Scenario-driven through Prelude cards
- Arkham Horror
- Mansions of Madness
- Eldritch Horror
- Eldritch Edit
- Imperial Assault
- Eldritor, Strange Remnants
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- character management — Introduces new characters with unique abilities.
- Condition Cards — Adds new condition cards to the game.
- Great Old One — Introduces a new Great Old One for players to face.
- Item collection — Includes new unique, regular, and artifact items.
- Location Variety — Adds more location cards to increase variety in gameplay.
- Storytelling — Prelude cards add flavor and story to the beginning of the game, setting up new starting and potential win conditions.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Question of the day. What is your favorite game that when you got into gaming was there and it was a staple and it was amazing and you wish more people played now.
- What's new is old again in the sense that it's back in stock.
- So, it's very mass markety feeling.
- Now, why am I bringing this up 10 years later, 12 years later, whatever it is, because these are still available.
- Like, if Elar came out this year, you would say, 'Oh my gosh, this is a brand new game.'
- I'm not being paid by anybody or asked by anybody to tell you that. I'm telling you that because it's such a good game.
- So, that is this roundup here on the Dice Tower.