From the classic Arkham Horror to the humorous and knowing “Obligatory Cthlulhu Expansion” for Smash-Up, it seems that every corner of this universe has been explored. Domestika on using python to do generative art and then realized the whole thing was in Portugese with subtitles. Nearly every component has a designated spot on the board, even the sand timer, which will be the source of much drama as you play. In movement, you can spend to ignore a player's madness cards for the turn; spend one during the encounter phase to get an extremely valuable 30 seconds added to your clock (we've had to do this a lot in my playthroughs), re-roll the penalty die during resolution, or increase your hand size limit by 1 for the next round when drawing. It’s definitely one of the most artistic and thematic looking games that I’ve seen so far this year.

This has to surprisingly be planned for, because if you don't have cards in the deck, you don't shuffle the discard pile back in. Movement is fairly simple: pick a place to go on the board, which is obviously mountain-shaped, and increasingly more difficult as you get near the top.

I don’t know if it will sit on my shelf for the occassional play, or if it’ll move on to a new owner once my group has mastered it in another couple plays.

On that note, completing these challenges would be relatively easy were it not for the fact that madness cards affect the players whilst going through the challenge process. If an Injury card must be drawn and there are no Injury cards left in the deck, the players immediately lose the game.I sat on the hard, wooden bench in the rear of the plane, surrounded by the arcane artefacts we stole from that mountain. The Leader can also discard a Leadership token from the Sled board to increase a player’s hand size by 1 card until the next Draw phase.