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  • Great app. One of my favorites.

    I’ve played this a ton and enjoy it.

    Just wish they would update the app to fit modern phones. iPhone 12 just launched and this app is still designed for screens from 5 years ago. 🤔

    Full screen please.
  • Abandoned?

    Edit: 3 years and counting since an update. :(
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    I used to play this almost every day; I have all the DLC. One of the best games of its time on the app store.

    Except now, it's been seemingly abandoned; nearly 2.5 years sinxe the last update.

    I check back in periodically to see if anything new is up, but am consistently disappointed.
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  • Hard but worth it!!!

    This game can be awesome and very much captures the atmosphere of H. P. Lovecraft’s works.

    It can be a little fickle in that sometimes you get dealt a losing selection of events but even that helps you learn how to prioritize which event you’ll attack first.

    As with the tabletop version, choosing the right character for the right event is CRITICAL!

    The expansion adds more challenging encounters some of which are insanely difficult (seriously, Ithaqua difficulty level is actually labelled “Insane!”).

    Great game though occasionally frustrating. Worth purchasing!
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  • Unskippable Cinematics and Bad Design

    Long unakippable cinemaatics at the start and end of every match. It's not that the game is too random, it's that the randomness is poorly planned and feels even more punishing and demoralizing than it is. Rally questionable game design.
  • Impossible to win

    Waste of money. Game relies on the roll of the dice. I played one game where I never achieved a roll to complete the task. Recommend Catan instead
  • Was great years ago, but now crap.

    I bought this game years ago, but the lack of support has brought it to its knees literally. I can’t even get through a game at this point without it freezing up. Do not buy unless they fix.
  • Waste

    Waste of money and time.
  • Amazing Games

    This game is wonderful. At first glance, one might think luck is the only requirement to win the game, but actually technic is also important. Basically you need to choose the CORRECT characters for the mission and to use resources efficiently. But certain adventures (one or two) in the game can be too luck dependent and this is a little bit annoying. DLC contains newly designed adventures and they definitely worse the price. But nevertheless this is the game that you won’t play twice after you succeed, so it is reasonable to make it difficult. LOL.

    P.S. Hint: This game can be soloed with only one investigator and it’s interesting (and perhaps helpful) to do so, especially when against SOME monster.
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  • Fun, but practically impossible

    This game would be a lot more fun if it were more possible to win. The main issue is that the game itself doesn’t scale and it’s too luck-heavy.

    The game sometimes (and usually) starts you off against tasks that require far more preparation and items than you start with, making it near impossible to get the ball rolling. Even if you do manage to beat an early task, the game can easily spiral out of control.

    As with most games involving dice, this game is a little too dependent on luck. Even if you’re fully stocked and armed to the teeth, you can still scrub out and fail the task, potentially getting killed off right off the bat. There’s very little strategy involved.

    However, this app is probably better than buying the actual board game and getting frustrated at how much money you spent on that, so I would recommend the app over the board game if you NEED to play it. All in all, though, save your money and buy something like Ascension instead.
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  • Sound No longer works.

    The sound no longer works for this game. Please fix.

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