Eldritch Tricks

Trick-taking in Innsmouth

Eldritch Tricks is a co-op trick-taking game for PC, set in Innsmouth, where investigators play cards against Dagon and try to complete goals before the mission ends. Follow suit and play high to win a trick, but one suit has been removed from the deck. Those cards belong to Dagon: each trick, he reveals one and sets a number the investigators must beat. If they fail, Dagon takes the trick and every investigator loses a point of sanity.

Goals that conflict

Missions give investigators goals such as winning exactly two tricks, collecting four Tomes, or winning fewer tricks than anyone else. Everyone can see everyone else’s goal, but the objectives can contradict one another. There are eight tricks in a round, and if even one investigator fails their goal, the whole mission is lost.