If Arkham Horror was the melding of board game and role-playing game, Arkham Horror: The Card Game wants to inject some role playing into your CCG habit. (In contrast to the “blind buy” model of collectible card games (CCGs), LCGs are expanded by the regular release of fixed packs of cards.)īut much of Cthulhu’s enduring popularity goes back to the title that started most board gamers’ love affair with tentacled eldritch monstrosities: the huge, messy, indisputably classic Arkham Horror.Īnd now FFG has gone and made a card game out of it.įurther Reading Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game-dive into a dungeon of cardsIn contrast to the LotR LCG, though, where you generally build decks to defeat one-off scenarios, the emphasis here is on ongoing storytelling. The company released two games set in the horror- noir universe just last year.Īnd there are plenty more where those came from: globetrotting evil-smasher Eldritch Horror, dice game Elder Sign, two editions of RPG-lite Mansions of Madness (read our review of the latest edition here), and even a collectible card game, Call of Cthulhu, which was turned into a living card game (LCG) in 2008. Despite the ludicrous glut of Lovecraftian-themed board games crowding game-store shelves and Kickstarter pages, FFG has maintained its status as the chief evangelist of the Old Ones. Price: $34 on Cardhaus (currently unavailable on Amazon) / ~£40 in the UKįantasy Flight Games (FFG) is not sick of Cthulhu. Game details Designer: Nate French & Matthew Newman
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