Cthulhu Realms
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | White Wizard Games LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Download and play today to find out why Cthulhu Realms is so crazily addictive!
In Cthulhu Realms, each player tries to drive their opponent insane or have more sanity than their opponents when the deck runs out.
"The art in Cthulhu Realms is hilarious and beautifully done, somehow complimenting the horror theme perfectly. The production value is top-notch."
— Gameosity
"It’s a surprisingly effective package that delivers a great little deck builder with a low price tag. If you can embrace the playful theme, you’ll find a pleasant gem in Cthulhu Realms."
— Geek Ken
"It certainly is not just another deck-building game, but has original and fresh mechanics that will challenge your brain."
— Board Game Maniac
How to Play the Game:
Each player starts the game with a small deck comprised of initiates, goons and followers. Five cards from the deck form a row of available cards on the table; with more than two players, place three available cards between each pair of players.
Each turn, you start with five cards in hand, playing those cards in order to put locations into play, boost your own sanity or reduce that of others, collect conjuring power to acquire new cards, and remove cards from the game. You can use the power of your locations once each turn. At the end of your turn, discard any cards still in hand and all entities and artifacts that you played.
If you lose all of your sanity, you're out of the game. If you're the only one at the table who's still sane, you win. Otherwise, the game ends when the deck runs out and whoever has the most sanity wins.
Darwin Kastle is the designer of the popular Star Realms Deckbuilding Game, and with the digital release of Cthulhu Realms, he once again provides tons of playability for free, and a one-time upgrade to be able play with your friends and more on any device.
Free Version
• Drive people insane everywhere - play across devices.
• Crazyily addictive deckbuilding game.
• Tutorial teaches you how to make people crazy in minutes.
• Awesome, comical art.
• Play VS the AI.
• 8 silly campaign missions!
Full Game Additional Features
• Play the AI on 2 different difficulty settings.
• 8 more fun campaign missions.
• Battle your friends face to face with Pass and Play.
• Play against many more opponents online.
• Challenge a friend to online Player v Player combat
Cthulhu Realms is also available at your local game store as a physical card game from Tasty Minstrel Games.
Reviews
This is a Good Game... not sure if it deserves hate.
HireTaxman&FixThis
Yes this isn’t Star Realms. Yes the UI might be a little cluttered looking. Yes the voice acting in the tutorial is sub-par. But it is basically still the same gameplay as Star Realms, just with its own unique twists. Personally I even prefer this game over Star Realms! It’s a shame the developers don’t seem to update this game anymore. I think it offers a fresh perspective, and the artwork & atmosphere is spot-on. Also, whoever does the voice-overs for all White Wizard games’ Campaigns, that man deserves an award or something. Dude has the perfect narrating voice. TL;DR, don’t listen to the negative reviews. If you like Lovecraft, and strategy card games, Cthulhu Realms is your ticket to ride.
Fun gameplay, terrible online UI
artfoundry
This game is considerably more confusing/complicated than Star Realms for two reasons. Each card has numerous rules on it, and the wording used is ambiguous at best ("conjuring" for money, "abjuration" for banishing, even using "+" or "-" sanity to indicate "bonus sanity for you" or "attack on opponent"). So the learning curve is definitely steeper. That said, the game is quite fun once you get the hang of it. The worst part though is the "lobby" for online play. No friends list, no list of online players, if you challenge someone who doesn't accept, you can't delete the challenge! And they can't refuse the challenge! So it just stays in your queue indefinitely as far as I can tell. That's just stupid. And then there's a bug such that if you start an online game while you already have challenges waiting, the text saying "waiting for player" is covered up by the game challenges. And you can't delete/stop the process of waiting once you start. Why doesn't this game use the Star Realms lobby system?? That one, while not the best, is still way better than this one.
Extremely Complicated!
ArcaneThingOfBeauty
I played three other versions of a Necronomicon/H.P. Lovecraft card game that was on different online arcades and they were very easy to learn, even with some of the complex rules about locations, monsters, and, health, and insanity. I thought this was the same card game except as an iOS app. I was so wrong. Here, it’s too many rules for each card in relation to other cards and too many different piles of cards. The graphics are nice, but this was so confusing. ?
Great but...
RaidersAs
In app purchase says available on all devices but that is not so. Either a mistake or an outright lie not sure because because there is no option to contact developer. The game is great I bought this instead of hard copy card games because there so much more to keep track of it seemed like it would be better but $5 per device in the house hold...
Just bad.
Nathan__Y__
After 3,000+ games of star realms I really wanted to give this a shot. I quit and deleted the app before the tutorial ended. The UI is terrible compared to polished star realms. I’m sure I would pick up the card combos quickly enough but they just didn’t seem very intuitive or easy to read the board and card names/values without zooming in.
Great representation of the game, except...
Bhy77
Overall I'm really happy with the app. I love the card game and this app gets my my fix. Great art, great UI, great sounds. However, there appears to be a problem with the mechanics in a couple of spots. First, the "abjure" action is supposed to let you abjure a card from YOUR HAND, your discard pile, or the available cards in the center. The app doesn't give you the option to abjure from your hand; only the discard and available cards. Second, the +1/-1 card action is supposed to let you CHOOSE a player to draw and discard. But the app forces you to do it yourself. Again, other than these two missing features, I really enjoy the game.
Terrible design
Jimmy the reviewer
Would be a lot better if the design of the game was the same as Star Realms, but instead it’s clunky and hard to maneuver ever move It just feels awful to play right now, and is prone on making me play card too early due to the play all button playing cards I’d rather abjure first if I noticed I had an abjure ability I could’ve played (which is something star realms at least notices for you first) If you want to play a better game, play star realms
Enjoyable card game
Vindie13
I paid for the full version because I was enjoying the free one. Purchasing it didn’t give me a ton more to do other than to play random on-line games and unlock the hard levels (which aren’t really much different than the easy ones). Still, I’ve had a lot of hours of enjoyment. It’s a pity the developers don’t seem much engaged with it anymore as more levels and more features (rank ladders for on-line play... or just fix the current stats which are broken) would be awesome. Neat cards, nice mechanics, fun theme.
Blah
Realsolution9
Like all white wizard apps, it’s either impossible to beat or impossible to lose. Star Realms suffers the same problem, so I guess shoe wizard makes bad apps. I guess the luck of the draw set the AI opponent up to score every good card, and left me with 1 or 2 purchase when I needed 3 o 4. But, there’s only so man times I can replay a crappy hand before I quit. Boring or unbeatable, if that’s fun to you than this is your game.
