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Beings of ancient evil, known as Old Ones, are threatening to break out of their cosmic prison and awake into the world. Everything you know and love could be destroyed by chaos and madness. Can you and your fellow investigators manage to find and seal every portal in time? Hurry before you lose yourself to insanity.
apostateant
It's not bad, would definitely play again. I like the fact that it doesn't really get easier at any point. You can slow down the Old Ones but you can't really make the game significantly easier like you can by eradicating a virus in regular Pandemic. There are times where a Shoggoth appears and immediately jumps through a gate before you get a chance to respond, to me that's a really poor design choice and the second time that happened pretty much doomed the game for the family.
Anakin1981
I love the theme and the changes that they made to the original! An excellent co-operative game with quality components that's easy to teach and to play with everyone. If you weren't too fond of being a doctor check this one out instead!
airjudden
Like [thing=260428][/thing], it uses some of the basic mechanics of Pandemic and improves on it by adding new mechanics and creating a stronger thematic connection. Major differences are that your hero cards have an insane (nerfed) side. There is an insanity die you roll in certain situations. The "infection track" also involves a group of ancient ones, revealed one at a time (Cthulhu is the final one and is one of the ways you can lose). Along with cultists, you have Sheggoths who are tougher to kill and cause insanity checks and revealed ancient ones. In other words, it does a good job of fitting the Cthulhu mythos with some of the familiar mechanics of Pandemic, just as [thing=65532][/thing] and [thing=260428][/thing] do, but there are enough differences to make it not feel like a theme pasted on to a mechanic. The differences are the best parts. This game isn't going to retire [thing=15987][/thing] or [thing=253344][/thing], but if you only have an hour and you are jonesing for a Lovecraft fix, this is for you.