The game lasted around three hours – more, actually, if you factor in tea breaks and quiet time to rest my poor wheezy brain – and countless references to the rules. I first played Arkham around eighteen months ago, solo, having watched three run-throughs. Let’s begin with the very first game of both editions. Read further if you’re interested in finding how my perverse conclusion came to be. I’m not saying Eldritch is better – bizarrely, I still prefer Arkham – but the son has usurped the father in almost every comparison that a gamer looks for. This is the answer to a different question, however. I’m going to save you a lot of reading now, and skip directly to my conclusion. Christmas 2014, though, brought Eldritch’s second expansion – and first big-box one – so we can now compare. It would have been unfair to compare the two games at this stage simply because one had grown, the other had still to incorporate any additions. Two years later, a new game based on the same Mythos, Eldritch Horror, was released, with its goal being to simplify and streamline. There have been no more expansions since. Finally, in 2011, Fantasy Flight released the Miskatonic Horror expansion for Arkham, its sole responsibility being to somehow tie in everything that came before it. For years, Fantasy Flight Games’ Arkham Horror was the game to go to for your Lovecraft Cthulhu fix, and along with its roaring success came expansion after expansion, each bloating what was already an overblown game into some gargantuan behemoth.
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