Dark Dice Expansion Pack

The Lost Case Files is an expansion for DarkDice that adds 35 cases adapted from Lovecraft stories. The cases retain each story’s period, setting, characters and central horror, while letting you take action as an investigator. Each case takes a different approach from those in the base game, and can have up to eight endings.

Investigate the cases

Every case centers on a sealed door behind which lies the truth. To open it, you gather six key relics scattered through the investigation, such as torn book-leaves, shards of blue glass and medallions from a forgotten sect. You can also force the door open, but doing so comes at a price.

You cannot pursue every lead. Cases offer mutually exclusive choices: questioning one witness can silence another, searching one site can make another unavailable, and guarding one friend during a blackout can leave another in the dark. Each route places relics differently and at a different cost, and brings different allies, enemies and evidence into the final chapter. No route locks you out of reaching the door.

Choices and endings

Lovecraft’s characters respond to how you treat them; they may stand beside you in the final chapter or work against you. You weigh the evidence, decide whom to trust, and choose what to expose, seal or destroy. Different evidence leads to different endings, ranging from a clean victory to a narrow escape or something worse.

Cases and content

The expansion includes 35 cases, among them:

• The Alchemist
• Celephaïs
• From Beyond
• A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Nyarlathotep
• The Picture in the House
• The Quest of Iranon
• The Moon-Bog
• Ex Oblivione
• The Other Gods

Other cases include The Music of Erich Zann, Sweet Ermengarde, Hypnos, What the Moon Brings, Azathoth, The Lurking Fear, The Unnamable, The Festival, The Shunned House, The Horror at Red Hook, He, Cool Air, The Strange High House in the Mist, The Silver Key, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Descendant, The Very Old Folk, History of the Necronomicon, Ibid, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Thing on the Doorstep, The Book, The Evil Clergyman and The Haunter of the Dark. It also adds 70 achievements.