Asmodee Digital’s video game adaptation of the hugely popular Lovecraft-inspired Arkham Horror board game series will be coming to Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC on 23rd March.
Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace, to give the adaptation it’s official name, is a narrative-driven tactical RPG that sets players loose in the titular town of Arkham, circa 1926 – more specifically, in a spooky old mansion, where the murder of an astronomy professor has occurred.
What follows is a riff on the board game series’ familiar Lovecraft-tinged exploratory action, requiring players to first assemble a crack team of investigators from 12 uniquely skilled characters – drawn from all across the Arkham Horror universe.
Players will ultimately need to survive nine chapters – with the story eventually spilling out of the mansion and onto the streets of Arkham before heading to the bayous of Louisiana – engaging in clue hunting and a “squad-based narrative adventure” that blends “exploration, investigation and tactical RPG combat phases”.