Sentences with phrase «arkham horror»

The art is pulled straight from Arkham Horror, which means its superb.

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Indeed, Arkham Horror single player is not the same experience, it's not as satisfactory, as the multiplayer version.

And honestly, I'm not sure at a mechanical level Arkham Horror works badly in solo play (especially if you take a «party» of investigators)... it's just a lot more fun with more people.

This is the only game aside from Arkham Horror where I've printed out community - created rule summaries and hint sheets for quick consultation and to help combat the utterly horrible layout of the rules.

And this year's «Tabletop Game of the Year» award was given to Fantasy Flight's Arkham Horror: The Card Game.

There's these two board games: Arkham Horror and Betrayal at House on the Hill.

Being an Arkham Horror game there's a lot of crazy stuff that happens to players as they deal with cults, insane people and unspeakable monsters that have clearly been harboring grudges for too damn long.

Even if fail to find the clues and get pummeled into the dirt by every monster you meet along the way there's no true fail state in Arkham Horror: The Card Game.

He'e had Pandemic for some time (although we've never played it) and I've been toying the with idea of either picking up Arkham Horror or Eldritch Horror.

One of the earliest board games I reviewed when I started getting into the hobby was Arkham Horror, a gigantic, fiddly game of Lovecraftian horror and table devouring.

Mansions of Madness is part of the Arkham Horror universe, which is in turn based upon the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and a big theme in his stories was a lack of control.

It's when you accept this that Arkham Horror becomes something special.

For all of my praise, though, Arkham Horror isn't a game I'd recommend to a lot of people.

Regardless, however, playing Arkham Horror with a good group of pals is a genuine joy.

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There's an absurd amount of hefty expansions available for Arkham Horror, but it would have been nice to see a few more cards per area included in the base game top help ensure a healthy level of variety.

Like Pandemic, one of my favorite games ever, there's a sense that Arkham Horror really doesn't like you.

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Arkham Horror isn't, however, for everyone and before buying you should stop and think about whether it's really for you.

I might find it hard to convince many people to sit down and play this one with me, but damn it I'll make sure Arkham Horror becomes a frequent thing for me.

I'm looking at you Arkham Horror and your myriad of fiddly mechanics.

I really want to try Arkham Horror LCG and Santorini soon.

Following reviews of titles like Arkham Horror and Robinson Crusoe I'm today going to review something simpler, a game aimed at children but that adults can become astonishingly engrossed in.

Arkham Horror is a huge, complex, fiddly game, but Arkham Horror: The Card game attempts to distill its essence into a simple, straightforward card game, and does it rather well.

Being a tabletop game Arkham Horror isn't scary in any real sense, but through its encounter decks, monsters, investigators and mechanics it still manages to capture the feel of a good horror story.

Arkham Horror is the kind of game that is horrifying in both the right way, through its powerful theme that mixes elements of horror and light comedy that can stem from the mayhem, and the wrong way via it's legion of cards, tokens and frequently confusing rulebook that aims to teach a complex and sometimes unintuitive set of rules, all of which manage to successfully hide that thematic strength for quite a while.

This means that if all goes well, or at least relatively well since Arkham Horror is far from an easy game then, closing a Gate will take three turns; one to get in and have your first encounter, a second to move to the next portion of the realm and have another encounter, and a third where you pop out back on Earth, at which point by spending Clue Tokens or an Elder Sign you can permanently seal the gate, meaning no more Gates can appear in that location.

There's a lot of stuff to keep track of in Arkham Horror which makes it difficult to talk about, so we aren't going to cover every rule and detail, otherwise this review would end up reading more like a Wikipedia entry written by someone that's just returned from a seminar entitled The History of Plumbing and hasn't managed to get their brain refocused from its «bored out of my bloody skull setting».

Players have to be really willing to commit to Arkham Horror in order to uncover its brilliance.

While the company already had some major hits with games games like Descent and Arkham Horrors, they really broke out when they gained the rights to make Star Wars games.

Not exact matches

Arkham Asylum, Dead Space, RE put Metroid in a bit of a spot in the console space since in several aspects they've evolved certain mechanics, by making more organic worlds, better shooting or visceral horror experiences.

Get Eldritch Horror, or possibly Arkham if you like convoluted, those games can be played 1000 times over and each RPG experience will be different.

Arkham is Lovecraftian horror, Betrayal is horror - movie style.

His favourite video games consist of the Arkham series and Metal Gear Solid, but there's always room for a bit of horror.