Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace
Inspired by the award-winning board game franchise, Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace is an investigation game served with turn-based combat, set in the cult universe of H.P. Lovecraft.
Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace is an adventure developed by LUCKYHAMMERS Entertainment Inc., released 3 March 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace is
Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace is an adventure game developed by LUCKYHAMMERS Entertainment Inc. and released in 2021. It was published by Asmodee Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"In 1926, a team of investigators try to uncover the dark secrets of an eerie mansion. Finding weapons, tools, and information will be the only way to solve complex puzzles and fight living nightmares, insanity, and death. It will take more than just survival to conquer the evils terrorizing the town. Will the team make it out alive and solve the mystery?"
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 21 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace launched on 3 March 2021, within three weeks of Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero and The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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