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The Cards of Cthulhu
Year
2014
Players
1–4
Play time
90min
0
Weight
1.83
BGG rating
6.80
BGG rank
#5999
Best with
1

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 7.0

Board game

The Cards of Cthulhu

Designed by Ian Richard

MeepleMates notes for The Cards of Cthulhu

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  • The Cards of Cthulhu is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 1 player according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 6.80 and BGG rank #5999.
  • Groups use this page to connect Card Game, Horror metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 2.
Based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, in this Kickstarter card game you select an Investigator, and battle the invading Cthulhu Minions and Horrors while building up a team of Followers to help you. This card/dice game involves combating various monsters from the Cthulhu universe separated into Minor, Major and Unspeakable Horror cards across 4 different Cult boards. Along the way, your character can bring followers with special abilities into play that may or or may not have a cost. Additionally, you can buy special items that help you defeat the monsters. Certain cards have special abilities such as The Gate Card that makes you draw an additional cult card or The Cursed Scroll which forces you to pay XP or draw three more cult cards. To win: If there are more than 5 Minions on any Cult Board at the end of any turn, that Cult summons their Elder God. You lose. No mortal can hope to face these beings and, the world is lost. If, however, you are able to empty the Cult Deck without the world ending, you have foiled the arrival of the Elder Gods, and you win the game.

Categories

Card GameHorror

Mechanics

Dice RollingCooperative Game

Best with how many players

1
Best
2
Recommended
3
Not rec.
4
Not rec.
4+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Some necessary text - easily memorized(3 of 4 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Thematic Rank#997

Videos

BoardGameGeek13

Session13

External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/23/2026.

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