Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2026)

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
     –H.P. Lovecraft

Something evil stirs in Arkham, and only you can stop it. Blurring the traditional lines between role-playing and card game experiences, Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a Living Card Game of Lovecraftian mystery, monsters, and madness!

Introducing the newest core set for Arkham Horror: The Card Game! Take the role of a unique investigator and explore the world of Arkham. Build a customized deck that represents your investigators abilities, supplies, actions, and skills. Customize your deck as you progress through narratively driven scenarios and uncover the horrors that lie just below the surface of this 1920s alternate world. Explore stories which evolve with your choices, successes, and failures to tell a unique story either solo or with up to three of your friends.

Serving simultaneously as both a continuation and a fresh starting point, this new core set heralds the beginning of Chapter Two for the game. Taking place several months after the city of Arkham suffered a devastating calamity, this box provides a new introductory campaign, five mechanically-new investigators, and a fresh card pool to expand your collection—or start a new one!
Whether you’re an Arkham Horror veteran or a newcomer looking to get into the game, you won’t want to miss out on this new core set. This core set will replace the Revised Core Set from 2021 and become the new evergreen core experience for the game going forward. That said, all player content in this box is fully compatible with all previously-released Arkham Horror: The Card Game products—it is still the same game, after all!

Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a cooperative game where investigators work together to unravel arcane mysteries and conspiracies, while simultaneously overcoming the personal demons that haunt their past. Each player takes on the role of a single investigator and builds a deck around that investigator’s abilities. A series of interrelated scenarios creates a narrative campaign through which a broader mystery is unraveled. In each of these scenarios, the investigators move through and explore a number of menacing locations, look for clues that enable them to advance the story, and attempt to evade or defeat the treacherous forces of the Mythos.

Each game is a single scenario during which the investigators are gathering clues and working to unravel a mystery. As the investigators advance through a scenario, they might reach a resolution. Typically, a scenario ends by advancing either the act deck or the agenda deck. If the investigators advance the act deck, the scenario’s resolution is typically favorable (and can be considered a “win”); other resolutions are usually less favorable and leave the investigators in a more dire situation. When any encounter card triggers a resolution, the players have completed the scenario and should refer to the resolution text that matches that number in the Campaign Guide to discover what happens next.

The basic mode of play in Arkham LCG is the campaign where players move through all scenarios to a final conclusion. All your choices and actions have consequences that reach far beyond the immediate resolution of the scenario at hand — and your actions may earn you valuable experience with which you can better prepare yourself for the adventures that still lie before you.

Awards & Honors

• 2018 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Expert Nominee
• 2017 SXSW Tabletop Game of the Year Winner
• 2017 RPC Fantasy Award Board Game Winner
• 2017 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Two-players Winner
• 2017 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Two-players Nominee
• 2016 Meeples Choice Award Nominee
• 2016 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee
• 2016 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee
• 2016 Golden Geek Best Solo Board Game Nominee
• 2016 Golden Geek Best Cooperative Game Nominee
• 2016 Golden Geek Best Card Game Winner
• 2016 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee
• 2016 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee
• 2016 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee
• 2016 Board Game Quest Awards Best Coop Game Nominee