Review Details

Eldritch Horror

Product Review (submitted on February 20, 2018):

Eldritch Horror is a fantastic cooperative experience that benefits from all the years Fantasy Flight spent making content for Arkham Horror. The mechanics are nice and clean, and feel like a much smoother take on complex cooperative play than most games made before it.

The components are everything you'd expect from FFG. High-quality, linen-finish cards, great cardboard pieces and board. Nothing super flashy that would make me give them a 5, but solid stuff. The one exception being their now standard, completely useless box insert.

The only blow to the Value score in this game is the low number of cards per deck in the base game. Replayability relies on expansions to be high. If you play too many games with just the base box at hand, you're going to see a lot of the same encounters and events over and over again. Thankfully, there is a lot of really great expansion content for the game to address this, but the fact that some amount of additional purchase is pretty much required after a few sessions is a bit of a bummer.