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Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace
Developer Twin Sails Interactive
Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace is a digital adaptation of the board game Arkham Horror developed by Artefacts Studio and published by Asmodee Digital. It combines gameplay from adventure games and tactical role-playing games. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
358 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
58
Mixed
111 positive · 79 negative
95% range 51–65%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 111 | 79 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 38 | 8 | 82 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 20 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 15 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
274 of 459 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
59% recommend · 112 yes, 79 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 191 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (450 of 718 positive).
Players say the game is not a direct port of the board game, which disappoints some. [1][2][3] Many reviewers note the game has bugs and clunky mechanics, especially inventory and movement. [1][4][5] Fans of the Arkham Horror franchise appreciate the story and atmosphere despite gameplay flaws. [6][7][8]
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- [4]
I think this game might be interesting, but it has some downsides that make it really hard to play. 1) Everything is clunky. Movement, inventory, item use, combat actions. *Everything* 2) Having mentioned the inventory, it is bloody tiny. Any investigator can carry up to 4 items, consumables stack up to 5 (which isn't much concidering how much use some of them see). Ammunition is tracked separately and does not …
- [9]
As a fan of the Arkham Files universe, I went in with tempered expectations and came out with mixed feelings. The Lovecraftian atmosphere is genuinely well-crafted — the locations, music, and narrator all contribute to an immersive 1920s horror setting — but the gameplay underneath feels underbaked. Investigation mostly boils down to clicking everything in sight, the turn-based combat never evolves beyond basic …
- [2]
Let's get this out of the way right up front: this is a terrible video game. This is not a Lovecraft themed Resident Evil. It is not XCOM vs. Cthulhu. If you are looking for anything like that, you will be sorely disappointed. What this is, is a video game interpretation of FFG's Mansions of Madness board game. As such, I think it is fine. The art and cut scenes are done in the style of the board game app. The …
- [6]
I'm saying recommended with a very strong caveat: don't play this game if you're not already a fan of the Arkham Horror franchise. I'm going to be completely blunt: by an objective measure, this is a mediocre game at best, lacking complexity. It might be because the devs just didn't want to pour too much money into it, but the easy combat and linear exploration and "investigation" keeps this firmly in the …
- [1]
Mild recommendation. There are a few bugs related to inventory and things like searchable objects where if you back out before making your choice, it won't let you access the object again. There are apparently some save bugs, but I never had that problem. Perhaps the biggest issue people will have with Arkham Horror is that it is not a straight digital port of the decades old board game, first put out by Chaosium, …
Summarised from 34 of the 323 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace talk about great Lovecraftian atmosphere and story; those who didn't talk about game is buggy with save and progression issues. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
On Metacritic, Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace received unfavorable reviews for Windows and mixed reviews for PlayStation 4. It was one of the worst reviewed games on Metacritic in 2021. IGN said it is passable but does not modernize tropes that have become commonplace. They disliked both the combat and investigating, which they felt were simple and uninspired, respectively. It also received negative reviews from Eurogamer and 4Players.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 358 · most liked firstA new chapter begins as Isabelle Barnes returns to Arkham. Accompanying the forthcoming Chapter 2 Core Set for Arkham Horror: The Card Game from @fantasyflightgames.bsky.social, Bullets in the Dark by @caricath.bsky.social is out now! www.arkhamhorror.com/news/bullets...
neutral · AI labelView post →Mark of Elokoss - Illustration I painted for Arkham Horror: The Card Game core set by Fantasy flight games in 2024. AD: Tim Flanders #arkhamhorror #darkfantasy #painting #horrorart #digitalpainting
neutral · AI labelView post →Mild recommendation. There are a few bugs related to inventory and things like searchable objects where if you back out before making your choice, it won't let you access the object again. There are apparently some save bugs, but I never had that problem. Perhaps the biggest issue people will have with Arkham Horror is that it is not a straight digital port of the decades old board game, first put out by Chaosium, then Fantasy Flight and now Asmodee. A lot of Asmodee digital games are direct…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Accompanying the forthcoming Chapter 2 Core Set for Arkham Horror: The Card Game from @fantasyflightgames.bsky.social, Bullets in the Dark tells the story of Isabelle Barnes, & her unlikely sidekick Tommy Muldoon. ✍️by @caricath.bsky.social 🧑🎨by David Robert Hovey www.arkhamhorror.com/news/bullets...
neutral · AI labelView post →Let's get this out of the way right up front: this is a terrible video game. This is not a Lovecraft themed Resident Evil. It is not XCOM vs. Cthulhu. If you are looking for anything like that, you will be sorely disappointed. What this is, is a video game interpretation of FFG's Mansions of Madness board game. As such, I think it is fine. The art and cut scenes are done in the style of the board game app. The characters, weapons, items, etc. are all from the Arkham Horror board games. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ICYMI: My tactical dungeon-crawler card game inspired by Arkham Horror & Gloomhaven has a prototype build downloadable for free at foldedfox.itch.io/delvetoodeep... There's about 90 mins of gameplay there, and I'd love to know what people think @itch.io #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →Our weekly household game of the Arkham Horror LCG is not going great for us.
negative · AI labelView post →Playing a little Arkham Horror card game with friends
neutral · AI labelView post →I think this game might be interesting, but it has some downsides that make it really hard to play. 1) Everything is clunky. Movement, inventory, item use, combat actions. *Everything* 2) Having mentioned the inventory, it is bloody tiny. Any investigator can carry up to 4 items, consumables stack up to 5 (which isn't much concidering how much use some of them see). Ammunition is tracked separately and does not require inventory space, fortunately. 3) Use the wrong interaction on an item (say,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sentinels of the Multiverse remains my favorite co-op game after all these years. I think it's as foundational to the genre as stuff like Arkham Horror. The RPG is an underrated gem too. A refinement of the best ideas from Marvel Heroic.
neutral · AI labelView post →What board game are you most excited about getting back to the table? For me, it's Arkham Horror LCG. We recently finished our first campaign (Dunwich Legacy), and I'm excited to see what the others hold.
positive · AI labelView post →Playing the Arkham Horror card game with the rest of the house tonight
neutral · AI labelView post →Sweetie I am not saying I don't want to play, I just don't think cats can stay awake long enough to finish a game of Arkham Horror.
neutral · AI labelView post →Board / card games I’ve played this weekend: - Flesh and Blood - Sorcery - Slay the Spire the Board Game - Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship - Arkham Horror the Card Game I love having so many friends who also like games
neutral · AI labelView post →I love board and card games, and Arkham Horror: The Card Game has gotta be my favorite.~
positive · AI labelView post →Welp... It's looking grim folks. #boardgames 3 player game of Arkham Horror board game, which gave Cthulhu 20 health while I had 1 health and sanity left.
negative · AI labelView post →Lights, camera, action! Step right up and take your seats for Film Fatale, the latest scenario pack from @fantasyflightgames.bsky.social for Arkham Horror: The Card Game. What sort of horrors await Hollywood’s Lot C? Check out more below! www.arkhamhorror.com/news/horror-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Huh. Small town with magic monster-spewing gates opening everywhere. Huge cast of characters of wildly different competence levels. Lots of emphasis on tooling up and having random encounters. Stranger Things is the Arkham Horror board game tv show.
neutral · AI labelView post →have you been good? (the wooden case to the right holds a complete collection of the Arkham Horror card game)
neutral · AI labelView post →I like bleak cosmic horror, but also, in our Arkham Horror game this week, I fired a flare gun at a Mi-Go and rolled high. The flare embedded itself in its head and it ran away.
positive · AI labelView post →Hi @terrarandoma.bsky.social - thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday this week I'm prototyping a tactical dungeon crawler that combines the cardplay and skill tests from Arkham Horror: The Card Game with the hex-based dungeon crawling of Gloomhaven #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a scam. It was sold as a (maybe altered) version of its most excellent namesake board game. It actually has almost nothing to do with the board game. The thematic is superficially respected but no significant mechanic of the board game can be found here and the story is the most generic, boring Lovecraftian tale I’ve ever seen. Don’t waste your money as I did.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had an old woman in my party kill about....6 people with a knife? And have a spell cast on her by an occultist. And see an undead worm. And none of it did as much sanity damage as searching through library books when failing a wierd 'did you notice the small details in the text' puzzle, resulting in her wasting time searching in the library. Not an occult library. Dictionaries. Dictionaries did more sanity damage then anything else and have given her multiple mental disorders. Also, though…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arkham Horror: The Terror at the End of Time #1 review. "Arkham Horror: The Terror at the End of Time #1 (written by Cullen Bunn, with art by Andrea Mutti and colors by Valerio Alloro) brings the Arkham Horror games and books to life. Set in the Jazz Age of the 1920s, this premier issue introduces us to wealthy socialite Jenny Barnes, who always has a priceless necklace and two pistols as part of her wardrobe, and Private Investigator Joe Diamond, who’s also much more than he seems. The first…
neutral · AI labelView post →The next chapter begins for Arkham Horror: The Card Game from @fantasyflightgames.bsky.social with a new core set! This product adds new investigators, a new intro campaign, and much more all while being completely compatible with our previous expansions. www.arkhamhorror.com/news/the-nex...
neutral · AI labelView post →Let's make one thing clear. Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace is not the digital version of the famous board game, nor was it much beloved card game. Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace is more in spirit with JRPG than TTRPG. Was the game good? No, it is not as good as it should have been, but it could be way worst than what we got. What you love/hate about Arkham Horror is here. The colorful character roster, the Sanity check, the Mythos penalties and so on. The graphic is decent, the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arkham Horror Card Game works well with two and has good narrative. I especially liked the Edge of the Earth expansion.
positive · AI labelView post →Played a fun game of Arkham Horror 3rd edition yesterday. Two old blokes and a gun wielding cop were never really in control of the situation unfolding on the streets of Arkham. #Nerdlings
positive · AI labelView post →#19 is the second edition of Lovecraftian adventure Arkham Horror which is, really, a classic fantasy quest game with tentacles. This got played a ton, solo, when my children were napping as babies. It was about the only gaming time I got back then boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15...
positive · AI labelView post →Given the legacy of Lovecraft and Arkham Horror, the game does feel a little rough at times, but it still has its charm. I’d say the "Mixed" rating is pretty fair.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Due to how bluesky works, here's a top 12. In no particular order. Spirit Island - Co-op, variable powers, high challenge Arkham Horror: The card game - Deck construction like magic the gathering, but co-op Castles of Burgundy - The best euro game Star Wars Rebellion - Epic war game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mate, if you're into CCGs, you really missed out by not getting into LCGs! Android:Netrunner, a remake of the original Netrunner from the 90s is the absolute GOAT CG out there with a close second being the Doomtown:Reloaded (which I helped design). Basically it was CGs without the luck/gambling. Just get all the cards and make exactly all the decks you want. Unfortunately Netrunner and Doomtown run out of steam half a decade ago, but they're still developed by their fans, but usually the only…
neutral · AI labelView post →My local gaming group SAVED THE WORLD from ancient evil last night! Played #ArkhamHorror designed by @kevinwilson42.bsky.social & R. Launius (list of illustrators here) w/Dunwich & Innsmouth expansions. One of my fave games, with the right group. Any other Arkham Horror fans out there? 🧵👇🏼
positive · AI labelView post →The real horror of Arkham Horror; putting the game and expansions away with no organizer. 🫣 Puffy box nightmare! #boardgames
negative · AI labelView post →Dark Horse's New ARKHAM HORROR Series is a Love Letter for Fans of Lovecraftian Terror (Review). > Horror fans who have never played the Arkham Horror tabletop game or read the H.P. Lovecraft stories that inspired it will still find plenty to love in Dark Horse Comics' new adaptation, Arkham Horror: The Terror at the End of Time. Based on the sprawling Cthulhu mythology, Arkham Horror was originally a board game turned tabletop franchise that has players explore Arkham, Massachusetts while…
neutral · AI labelView post →Arkham Horror 3rd edition last night for game night! Lighting a fire underneath the Elder God Ithaqua
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight we played a scenario in Arkham Horror tcg. This one the writing was on the wall near the end and had to resign. Then we played Gold West, an intersting point salad game with a rondel type action selection. #boardgames
negative · AI labelView post →Arkham Horror: The Card Game. Absolute banger and so much content whenever you're ready.
positive · AI labelView post →Our first game of #arkhamhorror! Not the simplest game to set up and learn, but we stumbled our way through. I can't say the same for the city of Arkham, destroyed by the arrival of the god Azathoth: investigators 0, misguided cult 1 #boardgames #tabletop #games #cthulhu
positive · AI labelView post →As others have written, this game is no huge shakes. Nor is it a patch on the brilliance of the board game, though it does capture some of the appeal (as well as that of Mansions of Madness, a spin-off board game this honestly bears a closer resemblance to). After choosing your main investigator from a handful of options - I chose Jim Culver, as he seems to aid group Sanity, and Sanity's always a big issue in these games! - you're thrown into fairly familiar "adventure game" mode, walking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Husband at 4:30 in the afternoon: "Hey, wanna help me sleeve some cards? It'll probably take, like, an hour?" It took us five hours, but he bribed me with delivery lasagna and Muppet Treasure Island (which he hadn't seen and I kept quoting at him 😂) Game is Arkham Horror: The Card Game
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone interested in an Arkham Horror LCG Community?. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25896521 > Hi everyone, > > i recently started playing AHLCG and found a lot of help and exchange for it on reddit. Now i wanna switch away from reddit and found [AHLCG Community](https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]) here on lemmy, but it seems to be super dead. > > Would anyone be interested in creating/moderating/joining a new AHLCG community? Would be great to be able to talk about it on…
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight we played Camp Grizzly 😱🪓🐻 for the first time. Were camp counselors try to evade and defeat a serial killer stalking them. Enjoyed it a lot. Has more depth than Horrified but not as complex as Arkham Horror. On par with Fate of the Nostromo. LOTS of replayability! 👍👍
neutral · AI labelView post →The world has changed. The page has turned. And now, a new chapter awaits. The next chapter begins in the world of Arkham Horror: The Card Game from @fantasyflightgames.bsky.social! Find it online or at a game store near you! www.arkhamhorror.com/news/ah-tcg-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Arkham Horror RPG is really working for our game group and the scenarios are well-written. Tonight we summoned some spirits...essentially just because we could.
positive · AI labelView post →As a fan of the Arkham Files universe, I went in with tempered expectations and came out with mixed feelings. The Lovecraftian atmosphere is genuinely well-crafted — the locations, music, and narrator all contribute to an immersive 1920s horror setting — but the gameplay underneath feels underbaked. Investigation mostly boils down to clicking everything in sight, the turn-based combat never evolves beyond basic gun-and-overwatch tactics, and the inventory system is frustratingly tiny. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arkham Horror: The Terror at the End of Time #1 review. "Andrea Mutti’s art fills every scene with menace. Every panel has a hint of shadow and darkness, as if in this world daytime doesn’t exist, this Earth is continually locked in sunset. If you’re a fan of H. P. Lovecraft or a good mystery story with horror overtones, pick this up – it’s the beginning of what promises to be a very haunting story..."
neutral · AI labelView post →Songs of New Orleans, a complete setting sourcebook for the city of New Orleans and its many mysteries, created for Arkham Horror: The Roleplaying Game releases October 30th by Edge Studio. Discover more now: www.arkhamhorror.com/news/explore...
neutral · AI labelView post →Had a nice game of Arkham Horror with friends and now I need to put my paws up. Lucky for me I have this footrest ready to serve his King.
positive · AI labelView post →After 3 weeks, we finally got our Arkham Horror group together for the next scenario. I died on turn one. Fuck this game. 🖕
negative · AI labelView post →It's so incredibly scuffed, but it has some interesting ideas. You might click with it if you have a high tolerance for jank. Mother's Embrace is a feature length campaign for an adapted version of the board game Mansions Of Madness. This is already a few weird jumps away from stable design, and I do not envy the team that worked on this for juggling faithfulness to the brand with attempts to make mechanics that function in a more conventional crpg environment. As is, they don't really…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never been very competitive in games, so cheating to win against other people was never something I've felt compelled to do. But in single player games, all the time! XP earning multipliers in Pokémon, house ruling Arkham Horror so Investigators can interleave their Actions in any order, starting Sims with all the money! Editing a save file to resurrect that one NPC I might've killed for being too snarky in etc etc. I wish I could cheat _more_ in computer games, honestly!
neutral · AI labelView post →what’s everyone up to today? i’m gonna play some Arkham Horror board game
neutral · AI labelView post →Question about the Arkham Horror lcg rerelease. Hey all, prior to covid, a friend and I were playing our way through the lotr lcg. He had loads of store credit and bought several boxes so we could have any cards we might need, because (as i recall) there maybe only a single card in the initial box, but we might want (or need) multiples of those cards... So it necessitated buying several starter boxes. I imagine the game was probably playable without that, but it was a convenience for cash sort…
neutral · AI labelView post →Collect all five new pre-built and ready-to-play investigator decks for Chapter Two of Arkham Horror the Card Game from @fantasyflightgames.bsky.social now! www.arkhamhorror.com/news/investi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Today, we are previewing the Survivor Investigator Deck with the new face of the Survivor deck, Miguel Lopez, the Rancher. Miguel is making his first appearance in Arkham Horror: The Card Game, available now at your local game shops! www.arkhamhorror.com/news/survivo...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ironsworn. https://github.com/Billiam/awesome-ironsworn There’s also a card game called scoundrel that’s like a dungeon crawl and free (there are how to play videos on YouTube). Arkham Horror LCG can be soloed and is good but costly.
neutral · AI labelView post →🔷INTRO🔷Arkham's Horror: Mother's Embrace is an investigative RPG with turn-based combat mechanics set in a Lovecraftian universe. 🔷TAGS🔷Turn-based combat. RPG. Exploration. Lovecraft. ✅PROS✅ -I found the story simple but quite enjoyable, with some nice references to Lovecraft's works. -The combat system is great (if you like turn-based gameplay). It's pretty standard, with the health bar, the sanity bar (if it's at 0, your character will be nerfed), and the action points (some actions or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would really like to give this game a positive review. I love the board game franchise, and for the most part the game is pretty fun. However, about 5 hours in I encountered a game breaking bug that kept me from progressing in the level. I reloaded the checkpoint three times, but there was just no way to progress. This is especially frustrating because I was just getting really into the story and very much enjoying the gameplay. If the game was fixed, I'd change my review to positive but as…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After The Hungering Abyss, dive into the Arkham Horror RPG Starter Set: Welcome to Promise from Edge Studio! Explore an all-new adventure in the Louisiana bayous, packed with premade characters, maps, dice, and more! www.arkhamhorror.com/news/welcome...
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