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Cthulhu Realms

#179303BGG ↗

2015 · 2-4 players · 45min · weight 2.08 · 3,385 ratings

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ID
179303
Name
Cthulhu Realms
Year
2015
Rank
1308
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
45
Min playtime
25
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
2.0816
Num weights
98
Bayes avg
6.1553
Average
6.67592
Users rated
3385
Num owned
5738
Wanting
51
Wishing
413
Num comments
687
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:17:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Deck, Bag, and Pool BuildingPlayer Elimination
Categories (4)
Card GameHorrorHumorNovel-based
Description (985 chars)

In Cthulhu Realms, each player tries to reduce their opponents to insanity or have more sanity than their opponents when the deck runs out. 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.

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