Mansions of Madness (Second Edition)

Enjoyed this as a cosmic horror Lovecraft fan. Excellent narration and setup assistance in the app. The delivery was prompt and arrived carefully packed. Some mins need to be glued to their bases. The game can be played without them, although that experience is less immersive.

Mansions of Madness bits players in a battle together against unknown evils. The campaign is story rich and the box contains beautiful miniatures. While not everyone is a fan of app integration, I feel the new mansions of madness apps adds small animals, voice narrations, sound effects and puzzle mini games in ways which add to the board-game instead of tacking away from it.

While survivors set out to work together mansions of madness expands on the Arkham universes Sanity/Stamina damage in unique ways with players taking on various wounds or neurosis which can bit them against the other players, change their individual win conditions or otherwise impede the player in various unique ways or change the games purpose from their perspective which adds uniqueness to each game and makes even replaying a scenario interesting.

Unlike Eldritch/Arkham Horror, Mansions of madness ads variability with a tile map system that adjusts to the player count.

Only issue is the app. Lots of tokens become useless on the board when the app just displays everything.

While I was uncertain regarding the app, all my doubts vanished when I played the game. Really cool that the maps layout change every game and based on the number of player and all the upkeep is taken care of by the app. Strongly recommend

Mansions of Madness is a great cooperative game for 1-4 players. In it, you are exploring a number of different settings, each with its own mystery and objectives to solve. Unlike the first edition, or other dungeon crawlers, this is 100% coop, with an amazing and highly thematic app taking the job of the Games Master. Just like any Fantasy Flight game, be prepared for many expansions and high prices, but if you can stomach the dollar amount, it’s a must own game.