Elder Sign: Omens

Fantasy Flight Games

In-app purchases

About this game

“GAME OF THE WEEK” - G4TV.com
TOUCH ARCADE - 4.5 out of 5
148APPS.COM - 4.5 out of 5
GAMEZEBO- 4.5 out of 5
BOARD GAME GEEK - 3 out of 4

The tense excitement of Elder Sign is now available for Android! Elder Sign: Omens places you in control of up to four intrepid investigators, as they fight to keep all-powerful Ancient Ones from invading our world through a museum’s arcane exhibits!

*Build a team of unique investigators*
*Explore an ever-changing museum*
*Face challenging arcane tasks*
*Save the world from absolute destruction*
*Expand the horror with two exciting in-app purchases*

Can you stand against the impending arrival of a malevolent Ancient One?


While Elder Sign: Omens brilliantly conveys the spirit of the Elder Sign dice game, a few noteworthy differences were adopted to optimize the mobile play experience:

-A limited number of available Ancient Ones streamlines the game play experience while offering adjustable levels of difficulty. Face Yig in normal mode, Azathoth or Tsathoggua in hard mode, or Cthulhu or Ithaqua in very hard mode (in-app purchases required to face Cthulhu and Ithaqua).
-A number of subtle changes increase the peril of defending humanity. For example, the random negative effects drawn every midnight are more challenging, and the frequency of “no effect” results has been decreased. Monsters have likewise been altered to make them more difficult.
-Finally, there are no Ally cards in Elder Sign: Omens, which further streamlines play while increasing the overall challenge.

Ratings and reviews

I've played this game far and away more than any other android game. The completely unfair dice rolls makes it extremely difficult to win, but if it were any easier, I'd probably pay it once then never play it again. The expansions add huge depth and the different characters you can play change the playstyle for each game. It's thematically very strong, with Lovecraft vibes throughout, and the artwork is beautiful. And oddly the music score is the best I've heard in a mobile game.

Good game but a difficult game. An undo button would be nice for if you accidentally start an adventure, use the wrong item, etc. Having your money displayed beneath your sanity and stamina would be good. Most importantly I would like to be able to instantly concede an adventure when it is lost, like if you don't have enough glyphs left to possibly win. Instead you have to keep dragging glyphs one at a time until you fail and this wastes your time when you know it's over for you already.

Addicting game, once you get over the learning hump. It's strange that there are so few monsters (4) compared to the board game counterpart, when they already have the artwork and could just paste it into the app. Maybe this is meant to be a teaser to prompt people to purchase the board game? Expansions are worse. Why pay the same cost as the base game for just one more monster? Aside from that complaint, and an obvious rigging of the dice (which can be mitigated with smart play), great game!

What's new

Fixed black screen startup issue with Android 8+ devices.