History TabletopGame / DeepMadness

''[[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/202077/deep-madness Deep Madness]]'' is a 2018 cooperative {{Adventure Board Game|s}} with CyberPunk, SurvivalHorror, and Franchise/CthulhuMythos elements, produced by Diemension Games. It was funded by a successful Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign in November 2016.

* StandardStatusEffects: Investigators and monsters alike can be slowed, weakened, or paralyzed, all of which interfere with the afflicted model’s actions in some manner. A slowed or weakened model loses its next movement or attack action, respectively; paralysis costs an investigator their next action, or a monster its entire activation.

** Outside the investigators, several of the game’s monsters are also clearly intended to be or are inspired by monsters from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. The Immortals are Elder Things, the Drifters are inspired by ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'' (and the Epic Monster version of the Drifter, the Drifter King, ''is'' the King in Yellow), Obscure is a Hunting Horror, and the Spawn of the Sleeper is a Star-Spawn of Cthulhu. The monsters Putrid, Delirium, and Blind resemble smaller versions of the chthonians, the Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath, and Nyarlathotep’s God of the Bloody Tongue Mask, respectively.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler:Dr. William West]] is not the friendly presence they first appear to be, and [[spoiler:the Sphere]] is the ultimate source of all the madness. These are treated as twists and major revelations within the base game’s campaign, but no one who has paid even a modicum of attention to the Kickstarter campaign will be at all surprised.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''Deep Madness'' is the plot of ''Literature/{{Sphere}}'', in a setting that combines the location of ''VideoGame/BioShock'' with the aesthetic of ''VideoGame/SystemShock'', with the basic gameplay and Franchise/CthulhuMythos elements of ''[[TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror Mansions of Madness]]''.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''Deep Madness'' is the plot of ''Literature/{{Sphere}}'', meets a setting that combines the location of ''VideoGame/BioShock'' with the aesthetic of ''VideoGame/SystemShock'', meets the basic gameplay and Franchise/CthulhuMythos elements of ''[[TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror Mansions of Madness]]''.

* ''Faces of the Sphere'', an upcoming expansion that adds a new set of inhabitants to Kadath -- inhabitants that appear to be twisted reflections of the investigators themselves....

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to Kadath.]]

* HopeSpot:

* Several individually-boxed standalone Epic Monsters, whose presence in the game make the investigator’s success and survival that much harder to achieve.

* Several individually-boxed standalone Epic Monsters, whose presence in the game makes the investigator’s success and survival that much harder to achieve.

** Outside the investigators, several of the game’s monsters are also clearly intended to be or are inspired by monsters from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. The Immortals are Elder Things, the Drifters are inspired by ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'' (and the Epic Monster version of the Drifter ''is'' the King in Yellow), Obscure is a Hunting Horror, and the Spawn of the Sleeper is a Star-Spawn of Cthulhu. The monsters Putrid, Delirium, and Blind resemble smaller versions of the chthonians, the Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath, and Nyarlathotep’s God of the Bloody Tongue Mask, respectively.

* ''Faces of the Sphere'', an upcoming expansion that adds a new set of inhabitants to Kadath -- inhabitants that appear to be twisted reflections of the investigators themselves….