

While exploring and interacting, investigators will make checks with the special 8-sided dice provided with the game. All interactions and explorations are through the app, whether you are clicking on interact tokens or exploring new rooms, the app will tell you what you’re investigating or direct you what tiles and tokens to place in the gaming area. Most of your time will be spent moving, searching, and interacting with points of interest, which will allow you to further the story and eventually find a path to victory.

Each investigator will have two actions from the list of move, explore, search, interact, attack, or component actions. Fans of Fantasy Flight’s Arkham Files games will be seeing plenty of familiar faces.Ī normal round starts with the investigator phase. The custom dice will be used for skill checks.Įach investigator specializes in different stats and abilities and will start the game with a set number of equipment, spells, and clue tokens. One of the downsides to this game is that using a phone will force one or more players to narrate and direct token and miniature placement during the game. One essential part of this game is the Mansions of Madness application (the app) for your phone, smart device, or computer. In the beginning, you will not have the means to win, but upon furthering the story and finding relevant clues the path to victory will become clear. At the start of the game, you will be given a brief overview by the digital companion app about your mission and enter your chosen scenario. In Mansions of Madness 2nd edition, you take the role of investigators entering different locations situated throughout the Cthulhu Mythos. This is a unique dungeon crawling, horror-mystery experience that focuses on clue acquisition, puzzle completion, and sometimes combat against the monsters of the mythos. Mansions of Madness 2nd edition is an app-assisted board game for one to five players that takes two to three hours to complete. Mansions of Madness 2nd edition is the game that checkmarks all of those boxes. If you love stories dealing with the Cthulhu Mythos, puzzles, mystery, and a good old fashioned dungeon crawling experience, then look no further. This is a guest post from George Botelho.
