Thanks Nick, great review as always. As soon as you said "this is fantastic" I went out to buy it.

Can't wait to get this expansion. Love EH.

"he only takes 3 mysteries to complete" you mean, like every other old god there is? (except that one other)

Just played it tonight and it definitely adds a lot of time... we could almost always finish in 4 hours (including set up, basic rule expansion, and take down), but we were most likely looking at 5 or 5 1/2 hours with the new content. Still fun, but I think the generic location cards need to be doubled and maybe some more gate locations -- we keep seeing the same things of those. Besides that it doesn't need much more and feels pretty complete to me.

I'm a big Arkham fan, so-so on Eldritch. I've been taking a see how it goes approach to EH, but I think I can safely say that this expansion officially pushes EH over the edge into the same territory as AH. Granted you don't have to use all the new stuff, but the setup time of the two games is about the same now, and I don't think EH provides the same amount of fun as AH. It just want designed to be that way. It was meant to shrink the experience down so that you could get a similar experience in less time, but now I think both games are about equal in terms of length, fiddliness, etc... It's just that EH feels a lot more artificial compared to AH. So yeah, I think this is where I get off the EH train and return to my preferred way of experiencing the Lovecraft universe.

the focus mechanic seems like a massive game changer to me. giving up a clue token for a re-roll always felt bad as did wasting actions in the wilderness. the extra stuff is neat though im still tryin to absorb forsaken lore so im not sure when ill be getting that to the table but im definitely incorporating focus right into my games.

Played the expansion this past weekend vs. Rise of the Elder Things and maybe we were really lucky, but we won with the Doom track at 14. There wasn't much tension at all. Still fun though.

Really good review, loved the flow, you kept me watching. Well done. Subbed.

Awesome review ! Hopefully our video game will manage to capture some of that spirit :)

fun fact... there are no trees in Antarctica

PLEASE SHARE WHERE YOU BOUGHT YOUR T SHIRT ! :p

So if I wanted to play one of the new characters in just the base game how much of the new content would I have to add to make it work? (example I know Muldoon starts with the carbine rifle which is expansion only so that would be added).

My copy arrived today! Love EH, I doubt that will ever change. However I will say, I don't enjoy playing against Yig. It sounds like the the spend a clue to gain an artifact Antartica space will help alleviate the feeling of never winning against Yig. Excited!

Love EH, but currently a student with little money to spend, the pricetag on the expansion is a huge number. Costs as much as the boardgame itself, you get slightly less than the boardgame and it convolutes the game. I can see how this game makes it so that either antarctica is central to your game, or is there and not utilized, because you really don't have the time to go there. In all honesty, I would've been fine with an expansion without the antarctica part. More investigators, more mechanics to play around with, but the extra area and the rules that only a large part of the new content is used there, is just a bit éh. I would've probably preferred a lower price tag, with a more general expansion, for the game as a whole and not a specific area + it's special content. So, depending on what the price does, or the next expansion will be, I fear I might be steering clear of this one. (that doesn't prohibit me from playing a game tonight with the first expansion though!)

Totally agree over 4 is too many and less than 4 is too little. If I play a 2 player game I use 2 randomly dealt investigators per player.

Great job, Nick. I love the expansion, but agree gameplay is stretching longer. With hindsight, it seems the base game was lacking and limited without the Focus action and choices/options provided here. The new investigators and their abilities are amazing, the spells are fantastic, and the double-sided cards - especially the unique assets - leave me shocked with some of their reverse sides.

Am I right that you only use the Antarctica board and cards with certain Old ones? More investigators, and basic deck cards are always welcome. The Adventure deck seems cool. Note: Every game I have been in has lasted 6+ hours with the basic so I do not know if I will want to use the Antarctica board often.

Itha-Kwah but say it like a single syllable word, not broken apart into two. "Ithakwah"

The elder things is actually the super easy ones.

Is it worth it if you're mostly interested in the new investigators and don't care at all for the new board?

why do you have a game in Polish in your collection (Tajemnicze Domostwo) ?

you put a 3 min YT ad in the middle of a review?...

forsaken lore was an amazing expansion

Bring on Nyarlathotep and Hastur in the mini Yig like expansions and then I think they can stop adding things so it doesn't get overly clunky like Arkham. No more game boards PLEASE

Good video but you just repeated yourself in the second part of the review, the video could have been 10 minutes with the same content