Arkham Horror LCG: Core Set Reviews

4.7 Rating 88 Reviews

Arkham Horror @ 0:09:10 Rob's Top 10 Games with Campaigns 2016 Awards Show Arkham Horror LCG @ 0:29:35 Gen Con Nightly Roundup "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is the unknown."- H.P. LovecraftIn the sleepy town of Arkham, Massachusetts, a small band of intrepid investigators seeks to uncover the nature of a sinister menace that threatens humanity. But beware! The arcane realm holds countless terrors, and the investigators must take care to maintain a tenuous grip upon their very sanity, and survive.Arkham Horror LCG is a one or two player cooperative game in which each player assumes the role of an investigator and attempts to solve terrifying eldritch mysteries. With a second copy of this core set, up to four players can play the game together. Each game is a chapter of a longer campaign, in which decisions carry far-reaching and unexpected consequences. As a Living Card Game, new cards and adventures are released regularly, allowing players to customize the contents of this core set, or to create their own original decks.The Ancient Ones await. Can any among us uncover their secrets and live to tell the tale?Ages: 14+Players: 1-2Game Length: 60-120 minutesDue to distribution restrictions we are only able to ship this product to the United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.Get Organized! Click here to check out the Box Insert for this game!

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“I have been a fan of the Arkham Horror board games (Arkham Horror, Eldritch Horror, Mansions of Madness, etc.) for a long time but somehow missed out on the card game. Well, thanks to Miniature Market, that oversight has been corrected and we are loving it so far.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I've recently begun collecting and playing various Cthulhu mythos Fantasy Flight games. I started with Call of Cthulhu, moved onto Elder Sign and am now playing Arkham Horror. The core set is so detailed, the rules are very easy to follow and the physical design of the game is terrific! I love that I can add subsequent sets to the game board, and that it was designed to play alone or with others. The company has done an amazing job of creating a creepy atmosphere, and has done a very good job at fleshing out the stories of the numerous investigators. Highly recommended!!!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“This game deserves the praise it frequently receives. If you enjoy challenging cooperative games, gritty decision-making, engaging and thematic storytelling & game play, and deck customization, then this is a game for you. There is one caveat: in order to truly get the most out of this game, you will certainly need more content than the core set. The core set is just the tip of the iceberg. This is the type of game that requires significant monetary investment to experience to fullest. But, it can be so worth it. If the game appeals to you, it's quite possible that it'll be one of your absolute favorites, and you won't mind spending some dime on some truly excellent content. My wife and I love playing this game together, and don't regret purchasing any of it!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I bought this game with a gift card about 2 years ago, and it has quickly grown to be one of our favorite games. The core set gives you some adventures and challenges, although it really gets valued from the expansions at the campaign level...of course, that adds more cost, so there is a downside. What I like: it is a cooperative game, and also a story game. Its hard to find games which have both. Your investigator keeps growing in experience, which leads to new cards, and a sort of role playing adventure. Though the game is random, you can mitigate bad stuff happening to a certain extent with the cards you have. That makes it more of a tactical game. I love the token pulls in the game. The majority of the tokens for skill tests are negative, putting you in the mind of something bad happening...which fits with the scary theme. And there is the auotfail token, which causes great grief..that is balanced out by the star token, which can cause you to pass the test + use investigator abilities. Investigators have different classes and are interesting, from fighters to clue gatherers, rogues, survivors and mystics, all these great types are there, yet they are all unique by having special cards to help and special weaknesses to remediate. Downsides: quality of the pieces is okay, although getting coin capsules will improve the token quality (they can get worn down from usage). Game is only for 2 people, though you can proxy cards to get 3 with this set. Fantasy Flight encourages you to buy another core set, but it is probably better to buy the expansions to get more cards. The 3 adventures in the core set are okay at best. The first two are the most exciting, with the Gathering being an introductory scenario. The Midnight Masks is the most fun and where the game shines. The Devourer Below is not as much fun, and is a challenge to get through. All three are a good introduction, but where the games shines is in the deluxe expansions and the mythos packs. ( Note, this costs $, but it is worth it to get the most out of the game). We are on our third expansion, and love the adventures and the cards.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Excellent”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a complicated but very fulfilling card game. With this set you have enough cards to play with just 2 players that are working cooperatively to battle the horrors that are abound around the town of Arkham. The setup is pretty deep and sorting out the cards takes a little bit of work and thought but once you get to that point it's all downhill from there. You can either create a couple decks that are already designed and written in the instruction manual for an easy play or once you get more accustomed to how to play you can create your own decks. However I will say that this set does not come with much variety of cards to create your own decks, you will want to pick up one of the MANY expansion decks to really delve deep into creating your own decks. I really love how you can play through a story campaign with your deck and the effects of what happened to your character and some of the loot you pick up carries over. One section of a story campaign can take as long as a couple hours depending on how well you do so to get through the entire campaign scenario would be a multiple night adventure. What's even more awesome is there are sooooo many campaign expansions and card expansions that can be bought that this is a very good investment for a long term game. The one downside that I give this (and honestly any Fantasy Flight game for that matter) is the box and packaging. I cannot stress enough that if there is one single thing that Fantasy Flight needs to work on, it's their packaging. Once you get all the tokens punched out and the cards opened there is literally no good way to put them back in this box that comes with a single insert. The cards will go all over the place and mix in with the many tokens, a huge mess. My advice is to go out and buy some smaller plastic bags to individually store the pieces and cards. Considering that you will end up re-using the same deck to play through multiple campaigns, it would have been prudent for the packaging to have at least some sort of plastic insert for storage of a couple decks.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“This card game manages to overcome the Eldrich Horror in immersibility. It is a game that expands the feeling of living a story H.P.L. The details of the local atmosphere and gameplay are undoubtedly the best game in the cuthulhu universe. The basic box follows a campaign with 3 matches with its history very well articulated. The first players try to solve a situation in the house of one of the investigators, the second they leave the house and depart to disrupt a conspiracy and the third I have not played. The immersion of the game is very great with antagonists and sites for investigation as well as excellent quality gear. Not to mention that the game allows to create several inspirations for the RPG and vice versa, that is, it allows a creative mind adpte (home made) an adventure of RPG for the card game. The community is full of fantastic adaptations. Well worth it, I hope this franchise is very successful.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Image a tabletop game similar to a RPG experience. This game gave us this experience! Amazing, terrific, wonderful and a lot of more qualities we can list here! Absolutely fantastic!”

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Posted 7 years ago