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Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace

Asmodee Digital · Mar 23, 2021

PC · PS4 · Xbox One · Switch

Mature

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Inspired by the award-winning board game franchise, Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace is an investigation game served with turn-based combat, set in the haunted worlds of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Plunge into an original story written by Fantasy Flight Interactive’s official writers and explore the American Roaring Twenties. The year is 1926: a professor of astronomy is found dead in her mansion and everything indicates that she has been the victim of a heinous murder. Choose from 12 intrepid investigators from the Arkham Horror games, each with a unique set of skills, and assemble your team to shed the light over this mysterious death.

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Scores by platform

PC

Critic 4.6 (4 critics) · Gamer 6.3

PlayStation 4

Critic 5.9 (5 critics) · Gamer 8.2

7.0

Xbox One

No critic reviews yet · No ratings yet

Nintendo Switch

Critic 3.9 (1 critics) · No ratings yet

Critic reviews

  • App Trigger

    Dev Crowley · Apr 22, 2021

    9.0
    Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace doesn’t overstay its welcome, which can happen sometimes with games like this. With simple gameplay, interesting characters and an engrossing storyline, this is a well-done and nostalgic indie game that is worth a playthrough.
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  • COGconnected

    Rhett Waselenchuk · Apr 08, 2021

    5.6
    Especially if you’re a fan of Lovecraftian horror, but steer clear of it if you’re somebody that asks of your 2021 gaming experiences to at least feel like you’re playing something made in the past fifteen years. Granted, I’ll be curious to see if this receives a sequel, as I do believe this series could become a sleeper hit. Stay tuned.
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  • IGN

    Jarrett Green · Apr 02, 2021

    5.0
    Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace is a passable translation of the mythos that board games, books, and graphic novels have been telling and retelling for decades, but stops just short of making it feel new or modern. That goes doubly for the repetitive and simple combat it throws at you between sections of uninspired “detective” work.
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  • PCInvasion

    Jason Rodriguez · Apr 01, 2021

    4.5
    Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace suffers from a bland and unspectacular combat system, a questionable sanity gimmick, and a litany of technical issues that are too glaring to ignore. Although it's an adaptation of a board game, you might as well call it a "bored game" due to the tedium and frustration you'll experience.
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  • TheSixthAxis

    Jonny Foster · Apr 28, 2021

    5.0
    It’s difficult to recommend Arkham Horror Mother’s Embrace if you’re not already a fervent fan of the universe, and knowledge of what this game could have done with the source material will leave you yearning for a better digital implementation of Asmodee's tabletop tour de force.
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  • TheXboxHub

    Dave Ozzy · Mar 28, 2021

    6.0
    Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace on Xbox feels like a blancmange model of the source material. It has none of the spiralling difficulty, gloom and impending doom. It’s easy, competent, and it’s clearly been made more palatable for a wider audience. We suspect that non-Arkham fans will see it as an extremely basic tactics game with lots of levers that you won’t need to pull, sewn onto an unsatisfying adventure game. Lovecraft loved to explore the edges of horror and the human psyche: Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace is more interested in exploring the middle of the road.
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