You can share your amazing experiences with someone else, but you are not ever waiting too long for your turn. With two copies of the base game you can make this work up to four players, but I would say the sweat spot is with a two. It is one of the best thematic and customisable games as well and delivers a brilliant experience in solo mode too. Two-player only - Yes, unless you buy more than one base game.Īrkham Horror LCG is one of the best modern board games out there. It is a worthy addition to this top 9 list and I would heartily encourage anyone who is a fan of Azul or Sagrada to try this out.Īrkham Horror The Card Game - Best for adventure/story telling horror fans. It is hard to put into word why this game is so good. This could happen within just a few turns, meaning a winning score can vary from 10 points to 70! The end game mechanic can either come from the draw pile running out or one player having all six colour cards in their score area. Scoring well is incredibly satisfying too, and games can be very different. Your only other option is to replace cards.Īll of these sounds incredibly robotic and monotonous I know, but actually playing it is so fun! There is something so incredibly calming and relaxing about this game. There can never be the same card of the same colour placed on different turns, so you can only do these actions if you have one of the six colours that is current not in either the “filed” area or the “mountain” area. On your turn, you have a choice to place one card into a Mandala “mountain” that is being built or as many of the same colour into the “field”. If it is an even amount of cards in the “field” the player who completed the Mandala goes second. If it is an odd number in the “mountain” area, then the player with the most cards in the field goes first. Each player who has at least one card in the “field” area can then take a card in turn. Getting cards into your scoring area comes from completing a mandala, which happens every time the two areas that you communally make them have at least one card of each colour. A blue in the second spot, means all blues get you two points.

If you put a red card in the first spot, this means all red cards you score will get you one point. Each player has six scoring areas that you can place a coloured car in, and a pile of cards that you can score from. But ultimately, when playing, all you are thinking is colours. Its pretty abstract, although they try to theme it around the Mandala patterns. Mandala - Best for puzzle fans who like zoning out!

Card games for two player