Game Play
Mythos was designed towards high player interaction in the vein of some traditional card games like rummy. Its game play somewhat borrowed from previous CCG titles, but also managed to introduce new, innovative mechanics.
The game is playable by two players, but is really intended to be a multi-player experience, where trying to complete your adventures becomes more important and viable strategy than just disrupting your opponent's game. Mythos tournament games are carried out in tables of four.
Like in most collectible card game titles, a Mythos player constructs a deck from available cards using certain rules and card limits. A player chooses an investigator card to represent him or her as a character. Each investigator has special abilities and numerical attributes, most notably sanity. Certain cards can lower an investigator's sanity, and when it reaches 0, he or she is eliminated from the game.
The main objective of the game is to collect points by completing adventures. Adventures are cards that include certain keywords consisting of different card names and types. Once you have the required cards in your story deck or on the table, you can play the adventure and receive its points. When a player reaches the agreed amount of adventure points (usually 20), the game ends after the current round and the winner is decided.
Each player can normally play only one card at a time, after which the turn is passed to the next player. This continues until a certain number of players have passed instead of playing anything.
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