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submitted 1 year ago by wet_squid to c/[email protected]

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[–] B4tid0 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks neat, somber and fun. Is it fun?

[–] wet_squid 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally love it! A few thoughts after 3 sessions:

AH LCG is a highly immersive experience! You choose a character, pick up a deck with skills, events, items, and start reading the well written lovecraftian horror story snippets.
The encounter deck, different characters, decks, slightly different events, scenarios (if you buy them) luck and your choose-your-own-adventure-decisions culminate in a high replayability.
It feels like a roguelite with permadeath activated. It’s hard, every decision matters, usually luck is not on your side and you are happy, if you get out of a situation not dead or insane. These are the ways your character could get eliminated afaik.
It ‘s playable solo with one or two characters (atm I prefer one). I can’t imagine bringing it to the table if you have guests over and want to have fun. I keep it for special evenings, when I want to get lost in a (non-digital) story.

[–] neutronicturtle 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How replayable is it?

[–] MrValdez 3 points 1 year ago

According to my time logs, I've been playing for the Carcosa campaign for approx 2 days 10hrs over roughly 3 complete playthroughs and 1 ongoing.

I still kept getting surprises. Either with encounter and deck interactions, or from path resolutions I've missed.

And this is just for one campaign.

[–] wet_squid 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Highly replayable, see the 2np point I made! :)

[–] neutronicturtle 1 points 1 year ago

Riiight. Sorry, I don't know how I missed that :)