Designers: Richard Launius, Kevin Wilson

Bad things are afoot at the museum. Bad, many tentacled things. You and your buddies need to deal with these problems before losing your lives – or your sanity.

Elder Sign is a cooperative game that centers on going to locations, and trying to solve crises, which will give you the resources you need in order to gather the resources you need to close portals to another world. The art is pulled straight from Arkham Horror, which means its superb.

Interesting Mechanic: Cooperative Diceroller. The bane of most cooperative games is that they frequently can be shanghaied by one strongwilled player. Other games have solved this by adding traitor mechanics (Battlestar Galactica) or hidden objectives (Dead of Winter). This game takes another approach – it makes the game so random that its hard for other players to direct the whole game.

The dice-based nature of the game does mean that things CAN go very wrong very unexpectedly, but if you like coop games, the Lovecraftian theme and rolling lots of dice, this is a good, fast one.

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