Eldritch Horror is one of my favourite games to come out recently. It seems to have distilled the best bits of the co-operative doom-track genre into an exciting globe-spanning adventure.

We just received our copy of the first expansion, Forsaken Lore.

This is a small-box expansion, and it contains mainly loads more cards for the various decks, along with a new Great Old One, Yig.

There are more cards for the encounter decks, plus new items and spells and also new conditions.

I am particularly interested in having more mystery cards for the existing GOOs. This will add even more variety in the ‘missions’ the investigators have to complete to win the game.

In this photo you can see how many cards you get, two packs of the larger cards and a pack of the smaller cards. There are even some more monster tokens:

You basically just mix all the new cards in with the current ones to add more variety to all the decks. Its like the Arkham Horror expansions in that respect. If you have played the main game a few times and are starting to recognise some of the cards then this freshens everything up again.

The new cards all have an expansion icon in the corner, so you can take them out again if you want to.

Here is a closer look at Yig, with his reptilian poison-bitey cultists: