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Arkham Horror - The Card Game
This deck construction game is an episodic 'living card game' where you buy the game in scenario sized chunks and gradually build up the pool of character cards from which to construct your player deck.
You pick an investigator from the large pool of available ones and construct a deck based on that investigators character class and any other restrictions they have and run them through a scenario either standalone or as part of a "cycle" based campaign.
Each scenario uses a number of location, act and agenda cards to construct an elaborate theme using the cards in a whole bunch of interesting ways (exploring a mansion, traversing an out of control train, working your way through an alien dimension) so that each scenario is truly unique from any other.
the game is played in turns with your investigators playing cards and taking actions and then the big bad scary does their thing and ruins your plan entirely.
the whole thing can be quite unforgiving and it's not a given you'll survive with insanity and death both quite likely outcomes. but the knife edge you find yourself on gives it a nice tense atmosphere conducive to the overarching cthulu mythos theme.
The base set includes a handful of investigators and 2 or 3 introductory scenarios as well as enough cards to build two investigator decks.
beyond that each cycle of content has a deluxe expansion with the first couple of scenarios and extra investigators/cards (~£25) and then 6 mythos packs (£~12ea) containing a single scenario round out the campaign.
It's not the cheapest if you intend to play all the content and some packs can be hard to pickup as they can go out of print for a while but there's replayability in how you construct your decks for each investigator and tackle each scenario though obviously you'll know what to expect on subsequent goes around.
Pros:
Thematic, clever, unique scenarios that tell very good stories
Very solid gameplay mechanics
Ability to pick and choose how much content you wish to play
Quick to setup and put away
Cons:
As a whole the content gets very expensive quickly.
some packs hard to find
difficulty can be quite high
lovecraftian theme not for everyone
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