I buy a lot of "atmospheric" board games and almost always end up disappointed.
Sometimes they are just so damn complicated (Folklore: The Affliction) it either takes to much time to set-up or you play for hours only to realize you have not followed the rules correctly.
Other times they are easy to set-up but get old pretty quick (Mysterium).
This game is both easy to set up, and enjoyable every time. It is super atmospheric and a lot of fun. I chose it over Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective as although were both riddled with errors, the 2nd reprinting fixes all but 4 and those 4 changes are published on board game geek.
This is a great game for anyone who has ever fantasized about being a paranormal investigator.
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If you like SHCD you should pick this up!
I backed this on KickStarter and love this game. Probably one of the best KS games I have.I am a fan of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, so it stands to reason I would like Mythos Tales.Mythos Tales takes SHCD and expands on it, it actually makes it better! I love how you have to keep track of your moves, meaning morning, noon and night some times can change what occurs when you visit a location. You also need have evidence (represented in a card with a number on it) at times to advance the story further. Like, "the door is locked, if you have card 1 read xxx, if you don't have card 1 read xxx" (bad example, but you get it). This all helps bring you into the game more than SHCD does.The map isn't as good as SHCD, and is a bit of a let down. There are mistakes in the printing, the graphics really needed to be worked on, and there are no names on the map like there are in SHCD. The directory also has some mistakes in it, but overall works without many issues. Newspapers are cool too, but would have been nice to have had a bit of an ageing affect to them (yellowish vs white paper), and not double sided, but that helped cut costs.The end of some of the cases seem a bit flat, not fully explaining what occurred, and that is a shame. There have been times at the end during the questions that they asked questions that we just looked at each other and asked "Where did that come from?", as in, no place we visited mentioned it. That is kind of cool, and kind of not. In the one case this was a big factor in, two of the six players wanted to investigate something in the newspaper, while the others didn't, if we would have, we would have stumbled upon more information and really changed the case. As it turned out, we were able to figure out the answers with what we knew anyway, but knowing there was a whole new side to that case was cool.I am not a Lovecraftian, and I'm kind of getting sick of the IP, however, 8th Summit did a very good job with this game, mistakes and all. The mistakes won't stop you from playing and enjoying the game either. Unlike my copy of SHCD that has two cases that are almost unwinnable due to the English to French back to English translation mistakes, Mythos Tales does not have that issue, and with a game like this, it is almost impossible to catch everything.
