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Arkham Horror LCG: Core Set

Product Review (submitted on October 9, 2018):

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.