Is Cthulhu Wars: Duel a Failure? - Review of the poorer brother of the cult board game

 

The Cthulhu Wars board game is one of Peterson Games' best-known and most popular games, though its fourth expansion wave didn't help the studio make enough money to avoid major financial problems.

Cthulhu Wars is such a beautiful example of a "modern and huge" board game, which could only come into existence thanks to the boom of such giga games and the existence of Kickstarter. The game area takes up an entire dining room table, there's a bunch of figures, some of which are in the lower tens of centimetres in height, and all of this results in a staggering price tag, with just the base game starting at over 170 USD.

It's great for people who want a game for the whole evening that takes up the whole table and half the cupboard and don't mind paying that kind of money for it. Well, for those who don't have that kind of space or don't want to spend too much, there's Cthulhu Wars: Duel, which is literally a minimalist version of the great Cthulhu Wars.