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Unfathomable is an eldritch horror deduction board game designed by Tony Fanchi and Corey Konieczka, and published in 2021 by Fantasy Flight Games. In the game, players attempt to maintain a steamship as it crosses the Atlantic Ocean while being attacked by monsters from the Deep and traitorous players in their midst.
A recurring theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of humanity in the face of the cosmic horrors that exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the "Great Old Ones": a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a death-like sleep.
Eldritch Horror is a tabletop strategy board game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2013. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The players explore locales around the world filled with Cthulhu Mythos horrors. Gameplay
Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror [2] or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror, fantasy fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible [3] more than gore or other elements of shock. [4] It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
Elder Sign is a cooperative card and dice game, based on the Cthulhu Mythos of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game.It is published by Fantasy Flight Games, which also produces the Cthulhu Mythos games Arkham Horror, Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game, Mansions of Madness, and Eldritch Horror.
In 2008, Fantasy Flight moved the game over to its Living Card Game (LCG) format, [2] which retains the deck-building aspect of collectible card games, but without the random distribution. [3] The game final expansion was released in 2015. It shares art and characters with FFG's other Cthulhu Mythos products Arkham Horror and Elder Sign.
Arkham Horror: The Card Game — Fantasy Flight Games Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a cooperative living card game produced by Fantasy Flight Games since 2016. It is set in the universe of Chaosium 's Call of Cthulhu role-playing game which is itself based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft and other cosmic horror writers.
The game features a form of permanent death in which all items are lost upon death. Money that has been stored in the bank is retained. [4] After the player wins the game, a new difficulty mode is unlocked, "New Game Plus". Enemies become stronger, helpful items become rarer, and gameplay shifts to a more stealth game-inspired mechanic. [2]