Arkham Noir: Collector Case #2 – The King In Yellow

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Low to Moderate Interaction

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 1.3

Low interaction

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.2

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Low to Moderate Interaction

Replay value

The game Arkham Noir: Collector Case #2 - The King in Yellow has a high level of variability in its gameboard, expansions available, and strategic depth. The player interaction score is low due to the nature of the game being a solitaire experience. The game scales well with different player counts and has a moderate level of easiness to learn. Overall, it offers a good level of replayability with a final score of 7.85.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Arkham Noir: Collector Case #2 - The King in Yellow is 6.33, indicating a balanced mix of luck and strategy. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome, and players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.

Overview

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Description from the publisher: New York City. Hired to retrieve a copy of The King in Yellow stolen from an Arkham collector, you are drawn into a web of murder, suicide, and madness. Banned in most countries and denounced from the pulpit, the terrible, irresistible ideas presented in the play are unquestionably unsettling. Are the better qualities of humanity no more than false masks worn to conceal the base passions that rules all men, women, and children? It might be best not to dwell on it, and to focus on the task at hand. As private investigator Howard Lovecraft, you will investigate events based on Robert W. Chambers’ collection of stories, The King in Yellow, and on Raymond Chandler’s short story of the same title. Arkham Noir is a solitaire card game inspired by the interconnected stories of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors, re-imagined as noir detective stories. Each case stands alone. Gameplay consists of adding cards to open cases, creating lines of investigation in an effort to solve them. The ultimate goal is to score five "puzzle" clue cards in order to piece together the big picture before running out of time or mental stability. Each newly shuffled deck is the start of a unique challenge, with adjustable difficulty levels to accommodate all level of players.

Mechanism

3

Hand Management Open Drafting Set Collection

Family

5

Game: Arkham Noir (Yves Tourigny) Organizations: Forgenext Players: Solitaire Only Card Games Players: Solitaire Only Games Theme: Cthulhu Mythos

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