Good but way too hard
I get that you are trying for the bleak hopelessness of Lovecraft but a game should still be fun. This is a lot more frustrating than fun.
Beautiful and immersive
This a beautiful adaptation of an excellent Yahtzee style dice game. When I started playing, I got very frustrated because it didn’t seem like there was any strategy to the game. Also I lost a lot. Soon though, you learn strategies for party selection, who should be sent to certain locations and when, and how to manage the dice and the items/clues. It’s quite fun. If you’ve played the physical game, there are some differences. For instance, in the physical game you can replace an investigator who is dead or insane. In the app, you cannot. The expansions aren’t implemented in the app quite like the IRL ones but they’re quite good for all that. Just different. Not that I wouldn’t love those IRL expansions, but it’s an old app and what you see is what you get. Hopefully you also will get, and like.
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Consistently a go-to
I love this game. I love the physical version of the game. They’re about 80% the same game, so don’t expect a direct 1-for-1. That being said, I’ve put hundreds of hours into this app, and I find everything from the UI to gameplay veeeeery good and satisfying. One of my favorite board game apps, hands-down.
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Excellent game
Dripping with atmosphere! A great balance between luck and skill. The difficulty ramps up until by the final elder God it feels almost impossible, but with persistence it can be beaten.
Outstanding
Elder Sign is my favorite IPad game ever since it came out.
Outstanding
Elder Sign is my favorite IPad game ever since it came out.
Desperately needs a tutorial
I want to like this game but as is it is unplayable. The instructions/help are useless. The developer needs to add a tutorial. I've tried half a dozen games and have absolutely no clue how to even play.
My favorite iPad game
Love this game, I’ve been playing it since it came out.
Rp game
Waste of money!
Absolutely perfect game!!!
I really enjoyed playing it on iPad. During these 3 days Since the time of purchase, I have played it nearly a hundred times. It is really addicting. I am definitely going to buy the physical game as well.
Play Balance?
Way back when the Earth was still cooling game designers had a concept called play balance, with the goal of making the game challenging and interesting without being frustrating. Apparently those days are gone. This game is too random, like a Vegas slot machine, with advanced challenges thrown at the player at any level and often in the very first turn. The result is that you can have a lot of experience with the game and think through every move and still get sandbagged early. Not fun. Been a Mythos fan since the age of ten.
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Busted by iPadOS 14.2
I dearly love this game ... but since the 14.2 update, it fails to open. Sure hope it gets fixed.
[ edit 4/2021: it works again after Apple updated the app’s signature! Doesn’t seem like FFG lifted a finger, but anyway I’m back to being happy. ]
[ edit 4/2021: it works again after Apple updated the app’s signature! Doesn’t seem like FFG lifted a finger, but anyway I’m back to being happy. ]
Still one of the best board game adaptions
After many years, I still keep coming back to play this. The difficult level is hard, but that’s good - you keep coming back for more! Background music is excellent and it’s simply a nice little game.
Wish there was more content available but doubt it will ever happen! Recommended.
Wish there was more content available but doubt it will ever happen! Recommended.
Crash at startup fixed
Delete and fresh install fixed the problem
Won’t open
Loved this game but now it won’t open. Hoping it gets fixed...
Super tense board game with great production
I got hooked on this a couple of years ago. Recently started playing again, and you guessed it - hooked again! The margins of success are tight and you need to take some risks, assessing your probability of success. The art is lovely and overall the conversion has been handled really well. Big thumbs up!
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After all these years...
It is still my most loved iOS game. Hands down. Just a beautiful game all around. Fun, difficult, frustrating.....while my family plays the board game too, this version is perfect for the times when I can’t get the kids to play.....absolutely great game!
Excellent
This is a fantastic implementation of the board game!
If you haven’t played the physical game, do not buy this!
This app is one of the worst board game adaptations I’ve ever seen. No tutorial, no tool tips, really no indication that the ‘glyphs’ you ‘summon’ are dice being rolled. No convenient reference showing which dice have how many of each result. I had to read about 20 pages of digital rule book to even guess at how to use the UI, and even then, things like items you can buy in the shop appear as plain icons with no text description of what they do until after you buy them. Really wanted to like this game, and have given it multiple tries.
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Impossible
This game could be great, the graphics are good, the opening video is fine to watch once but upon multiple games is annoying and you can’t get rid of it without disabling all videos.
Now the real problem of this game is that it’s almost impossible to win, I have played over and over and it’s heavily bias towards the computer winning. The upshot is that it gets frustrating and pointless, and seems largely to be down to sheer luck rather than any skill. Could be a whole lot better.
Now the real problem of this game is that it’s almost impossible to win, I have played over and over and it’s heavily bias towards the computer winning. The upshot is that it gets frustrating and pointless, and seems largely to be down to sheer luck rather than any skill. Could be a whole lot better.
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