Elder Sign
Roll dice against Lovecraftian horrors in a haunted 1926 museum, racing to seal the portals shut.
Who it's for
Lovecraft fans and co-op dice-game lovers who want tense horror gameplay that works from solo up to a full table.
Not for you if…
You dislike heavy dice-luck or want a game without any horror atmosphere, because both are central here.
Vibe's take
tense, cooperative, dice-driven, atmospheric, escalating
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About this game
Elder Sign puts your investigators inside a museum at midnight, 1926, while something ancient and hungry claws at the barriers between dimensions. You roll a fistful of custom dice against each exhibit's specific challenge, matching symbols to solve it before your sanity or stamina runs out, and every solved room brings you closer to sealing the portal for good. Fail too often and the Ancient One stirs, closer to waking. Characters bring genuinely different toolkits, and re-rolling and locking dice gives you just enough control to feel clever without ever feeling safe. It's Lovecraftian horror boiled down to fast, tense dice-chucking, equally happy solo or with a full table.
Get it
from $45
Mechanics
Occasions
Moods
By the numbers
Players
Duration
90 min
Ages 12+
Complexity
2.3 / 5 — LightBGG Rating
6.8/10
Rank #803
26k ratings
Published
2011
Language
Some text
Designed by
Kevin Wilson, Richard Launius
Published by
Fantasy Flight Games, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Arclight Games, Delta Vision Publishing, Edge Entertainment, Galakta, Galápagos Jogos, Geekach LLC, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, Hobby World, Stratelibri, Wargames Club Publishing
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