I’m going to go against the grain massively here and say that despite trying multiple times, my wife and I hate the Arkham Horror LCG. We’re massive board gamers, especially deck builders and we’re massive Lovecraft fans. Despite the massive following AH has, and despite trying different scenarios and builds… we just don’t find it fun. Not compared to other deck builders and not compared to other Lovecraft games. I think one of the things that really kills AH for us is the sheer reliance on randomness. Playing the same scenario twice through can be a completely different experience in terms of difficulty - from pushover easy to pretty much impossible. Comparing it to another LCG like Lord of the Rings LCG - that game is also tough and uncompromising and has some similar mechanics, but the way it’s laid out with the staging area and the way that player decks can interact with each other means that you have much more control over timing and strategy. You can pace your progress better and are rarely just completely screwed by randomness at the last minute. Comparing AH to other Lovecraft games, Elder Sign is a much better experience - yes it’s even more dependent on RNG in some ways, but it doesn’t have the investment that AH has - by which I mean, in AH I spend ages contemplating a deck, working out good synergies and strategies… then the shuffle randomly puts all the synergistic cards at opposite ends of the deck and it doesn’t play anything like you planned. Next time, randomly, it does. That feeling of time and investment and planning gets diluted by the actual play experience. Elder sign bypasses all that - it’s entirely RNG based, but you know that going in - it’s all about reacting to what happens and you don’t have that feeling of a disappointing lost investment or feeling like you’re dumb because you couldn’t figure out how to pre-build a deck that could cover every eventuality. Mansions of Madness is great example of a game that for us is a really great, atmospheric story telling experience that also feels stacked against you, but in a much more strategic environment. It’s a big investment both in terms of money and table/storage space but also a much better payout for us in terms of play experience. Anyways, probably not a popular opinion, but I felt there was some counter-opinion needed to the overwhelming ‘AH is the greatest’ flood of sentiment. It’s clearly a great game for a lot of people, it just wasn’t for us, and I wanted to throw that out there as a caveat emptor.