Elder Sign: Omens

Elder Sign: Omens is a digital adaptation of Elder Sign, a cooperative dice-and-card board game rooted deeply in the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and published by Fantasy Flight Games. The tabletop version itself was released in 2011 and situates players as investigators racing against time to prevent the awakening of an Ancient One by collecting Elder Signs, all while contending with the creeping doom that has become synonymous with Lovecraftian horror. In bringing that experience to screens, Omens seeks to replicate the tabletop’s tension and randomness with a digital package that eliminates setup friction and automates bookkeeping — a welcome advantage for solo players and those without regular gaming groups. The digital edition sits within a lineage of Fantasy Flight board-to-digital conversions, aiming to preserve both mechanics and atmosphere while leveraging the audiovisual strengths of interactive media. At its core, Elder Sign: Omens is an exercise in risk management, probability, and escalating tension. You build a team of unique investigators, each bringing special abilities, and send them through a series of ‘Adventure’ scenarios across settings like museums, oceans, and d…

Designed for a touchscreen, this game lacks such niceties as a tutorial, balloon tips, or context-sensitive anything. If you don't already know how to play (I didn't) you'll need to read through the How-To in the pause menu. There's no easy way to figure what the icons do, so it's probably best played with another screen open that you can use as a guide. I still don't know all the nuances of what means what so maybe I'll find a video to tell me. I'd suggest you buy the card/dice game and play that instead, but it's literally 10x more expensive when I posted this, so, whatever.

Really fun. Played the phone version a lot so have way more hours in this game than is listed on here. Great atmosphere. The only frustration is you're at the mercy of RNG and you will hate this game at times.

This is a great rendition of Elder Sign. If you own, play and enjoy the physical board game version, you will definitely like this version! Wonderful imagery and music. The interface organizes everything in the game conveniently. You can review things such as Adventure and Other World cards to see their Terror and At Midnight effects, penalties, rewards, active monsters, etc. Same goes for the investigator cards to review their special abilities, etc. I also caught some things I was doing wrong in the physical game, just by playing this one. Super fun! P.S. It works perfectly on the Steam Deck! Runs game and the controller profile works great.

I have been playing this since it came out in google play. I still have my android version a d thrilled to see it on my PC laptop

Game is terrible mobile trash. I know it's based on a board game(and later mobile app), and it might even be faithful to that, but it's terrible as a pc-game. graphics are terrible and low res, poorly upscaled from the long running board game, and also it's very obvious that the art has been supplied by mutliple artist over several years, as it's very inconsistent in quality - some of the illustrations are atrocious. likewise sound quality and effects are poor quality. interface is also somewhat cumbersome with lots of pop-ups that are useful the first time, but really needs an option to dismiss once your familar with the game. the worst thing though is the gameplay - and yes it's a dice game, so a successful run is largely dependent on luck(with only a few mitigating factors such as skills and items).... however I'm like 99% the dicerolls are rigged! we're talking worse than XCOM 99% misses here - ex: had to roll 2 sets of "magnifying glasses" for success, rolled six die and first got 6 "skulls", then rolled 6 "terror"... mind you both those are only on 1 die-face each and the "magnifying glasses" are on 3 die-faces(last one being "scrolls")... the chances of a roll …