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Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace

Mar 23, 2021

5.43

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Rank: 3777^th of 38169

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About this game

Themes: Adventure Board RPG Single-player

Developer: Asmodee Digital

Content Rating: Mature

Summary

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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Gamer Reviews

485 Reviews

6.27

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Critic Reviews

4 Reviews

4.60

PCInvasion

4.50

Jason Rodriguez—Apr 01, 2021

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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IGN

5.00

Jarrett Green—Apr 02, 2021

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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TheSixthAxis

5.00

Jonny Foster—Apr 28, 2021

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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