Cthulhu Realms

About this board game

Cthulhu Realms is a card game for 2–4 players that takes about 45 minutes, challenging you to reduce your opponents to insanity or finish with more sanity than anyone else.

Each player begins with a small deck containing initiates, goons, and followers. A row of five available cards is placed on the table; in games with more than two players, three available cards are placed between each pair of players.

Every turn starts with five cards in hand. Play them in order to put locations into play, increase your own sanity, reduce the sanity of others, gather conjuring power to acquire new cards, and remove cards from the game.

• Use the power of your locations once each turn.
• Discard cards still in your hand at the end of your turn.
• Discard all entities and artifacts played during the turn.

Sanity is the key to survival. If your sanity reaches zero, you are eliminated; if you are the only player who remains sane, you win immediately.

If more than one player is still sane, the game continues until the deck runs out. At that point, the player with the most sanity wins. With its hand management, card acquisition, location powers, and shifting sanity totals, Cthulhu Realms turns every turn into a contest for control of the table.