Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu
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.
40m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
AmesGames
Great for solo. As a "Cthulhu" themed Pandemic experience, this one is well done. I wouldn't recommend this multiplayer. I wouldn't recommend any Pandemic-based game multiplayer actually, because quarterbacking is automatically going to happen. Pandemic anything is best played solo.
andrewrothfuss
A bit of a contradiction. It wants to be all serious and weighty with the Cthulhu theming and madness mechanics, but it's actually the quickest and lightest version of the traditional Pandemic games. Not that it's a bad, it's just unexpected. In fact that lightness actually sets it apart from all the other versions.
Arkeas
While I enjoy Pandemic and am a big fan of Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos, this combination just doesn't do it for me. Really easy to get into and play, just like the standard version of Pandemic and the random Great Old Ones means that things can play out a little differently each time which is neat. The board tries to evoke doom and gloom in the artwork but the board is far too dark to see anything well enough for that feeling to really come through. An interesting experiment but it's just not for me.