Adventure Time: Play Session Report #1

[twissie]

Christian and I met up with our regular board game group today. We've been meeting up every other Sunday or so ever since last summer, it's been a lot of fun. One of our regular players couldn't make it, so there were four of us all together today.

Today's games:
Harbour, and Eldritch Horror.

I hadn't played Harbour before. The initial

Comments

[orangerful]

Eldritch Horror sounds fascinating!! I love trying new games, I just wish they weren't such an investment because I don't want to spend the money than get a dud. But after your write up, I might watch for a sale or something. :)

[magic_treehouse]

That's what board game groups are for ;)

[twissie]

It's such a cool game, I like it a lot. It uses the monster mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft, but you don't need to know anything about it to play or enjoy the game.

The thing that took me a little aback was that the win conditions are pretty abstract. Like, the game calls it "you need to solve three mysteries", when in reality what you need to do is collect a bunch of abstract clue tokens to be able to move on to the next "mystery". There isn't really much flavour text describing what the mysteries really are or what you figure out along the way ... but once you get past that, there are tons of fun to be had here.

If you're looking for a more story driven type of horror game, I warmly recommend Mansions of Madness. It's also co-op, at least if you're three players or more. It's the players versus a game master/storyteller type of thing, but the game comes with all you need to play. It's not an RPG, you do not need to make up anything or roleplay, it's a board game where one of the players get to be the monsters.

[orangerful]

Whoa that one sounds cool too!!! Going to put that on my watchlist.

[magic_treehouse]

I feel like I lose many more co-op games than I win! I do enjoy them though, like the masochist I am.

[twissie]

Hahaha, true! But they probably wouldn't be as fun to play if you just won them all the time ;)