''Eldritch Horror'' is a tabletop
strategy board game
A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous, decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome. Almost all strategy games require internal decision tree-style thinki ...
published by
Fantasy Flight Games
Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a game company based in Roseville, Minnesota, United States, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, card, and dice games. As of 2014, it is a subsidiary of Asmodée Éditions.
History
Fantasy Flight Publi ...
in 2013.
The players explore locales around the world filled with
Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify ...
horrors.
Gameplay
Players
cooperatively fight an ancient evil stirring from its slumber and must seal off this awakening horror before it's too late. Players travel around the globe battling monsters, solving mysteries, and equipping up, all to prevent the ''Ancient One'' from entering the world and threatening to destroy it.
The game is separated into three sections: the action phase (where each player takes actions for their character), the encounter phase (where players draw encounter cards and experience the world around them) and the mythos phase (where the Ancient One and his minions get an opportunity to act out their nefarious deeds).
Expansions
* Forsaken Lore (30 April 2014)
* Mountains of Madness (18 December 2014)
* Strange Remnants (20 July 2015)
* Under the Pyramids (10 December 2015)
* Signs of Carcosa (6 June 2016)
* The Dreamlands (5 January 2017)
* Cities in Ruin (6 July 2017)
* Masks of Nyarlathotep (22 February 2018)
References
External links
Official websiteat
Fantasy Flight Games
Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a game company based in Roseville, Minnesota, United States, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, card, and dice games. As of 2014, it is a subsidiary of Asmodée Éditions.
History
Fantasy Flight Publi ...
American board games
Board games introduced in 2014
Horror board games
Adventure board games
Cooperative board games
Cthulhu Mythos board games
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