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Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Something evil stirs in Arkham, and only you can stop it. Blurring the traditional lines between role-playing and card game experiences, Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a Living Card Game of Lovecraftian mystery, monsters, and madness!

1–2 players120 minages 14heavy difficulty

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What is Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a cooperative game where investigators work together to unravel arcane mysteries and conspiracies, while simultaneously overcoming the personal demons that haunt their past. Each player takes on the role of a single investigator and builds a deck around that investigator’s abilities. A series of interrelated scenarios creates a narrative campaign through which a broader mystery is unraveled. In each of these scenarios, the investigators move through and explore a number of menacing locations, look for clues that enable them to advance the story, and attempt to evade or defeat the treacherous forces of the Mythos.

Each game is a single scenario during which the investigators are gathering clues and working to unravel a mystery. As the investigators advance through a scenario, they might reach a resolution. Typically, a scenario ends by advancing either the act deck or the agenda deck. If the investigators advance the act deck, the scenario’s resolution is typically favorable (and can be considered a “win”); other resolutions are usually less favorable and leave the investigators in a more dire situation. When any encounter card triggers a resolution, the players have completed the scenario and should refer to the resolution text that matches that number in the Campaign Guide to discover what happens next.

The basic mode of play in Arkham LCG is the campaign where players move through all scenarios to a final conclusion. All your choices and actions have consequences that reach far beyond the immediate resolution of the scenario at hand — and your actions may earn you valuable experience with which you can better prepare yourself for the adventures that still lie before you.

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Players: 1–2
Age: +14
Duration: 120 min
Difficulty: Heavy
Type: Board game
Year: 2016
Mechanics: Action Points · Area Movement · Communication Limits
Categories: Adventure · Card Game · Collectible Components
Designer: Nate French · Maxine Juniper Newman
Publisher: Asmodee · Fantasy Flight Games · Arclight Games · Asterion Press

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Vtroopengorokh10/10

Потрясающий нарратив, хорошие механики, огромное разнообразие. Шедевр.

BrandonSpiegel10/10

Con las expansiones: Regreso a la Noche de la Fanática, El Legado de Dunwich (y Regreso), El Camino a Carcosa (y Regreso), La Era Olvidada (y Regreso), El Círculo Roto (y Regreso), Los devoradores de sueños, La Conspiración de Innsmouth, Los confines de la Tierra, Las llaves escarlata, La fiesta del Valle de la Cicuta, Los Laberintos de la Demencia, Guardianes del Abismo, La Maldición del Rougarou, Carnevale de horrores, Asesinato en el hotel Excelsior, Barkham Horror: La intromisión de Miaulathotep, La masa que lo devoraba todo, La Guerra de los Dioses Exteriores, Maquinaciones por el tiempo

cschacal8/10

This is be the best LCG I have ever played. It can be played as a solo player (best with two characters) and with friends. Very thematic and inmersive. The only problem is the big amount of misprints in the Spanish version and the lack of support from Fantasy Flight Games.