What's New

New Portal: A new exclusive inter-dimensional portal just opened and will make you travel at the edge of the Earth.You will cross Antarctica to reach the MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS! In this new portal with unique and challenging "Excavating" Rule you will face something older than humanity…

New cards: Along with the new portal, get the chance to unlock many new & exclusive cards! Test your luck and try to get the Miskatonic Expedition Ship or even the rare ELDER THING.

Polished tutorial: The tutorial has been polished so people won't get lost during their first experience with the game.

Bug fixing:
- The CTHULHU IDOL is now working properly
- ELDER TEXTS (including Dagon) should not crash anymore
- RITUAL MODE synchronization (you will always find your rewarded cards in your card list)
- Some graphical glitches with iPad Mini and iPad air
- The GAME OVER timing will fit the screen
- Music optimization
- Now you cannot sell a card used in your deck
- New screen added during server maintenance
- Some other minor corrections

App Description

Pocketgamer: 8/10 "The Moaning words is an adventure and battle card game really pleasing… you could easily have a surprising and epic journey!"

App4Phone: "The Moaning Words is an excellent surprise, convincing, captivating, bewitching, intense and well-made."

148apps: 4/5 "The Moaning Words is dripping with atmosphere, and with October now rolling around, it’s the perfect time for something spooky."


Bestselling science-fiction author Alan Dean Foster (Alien, Star Wars) is introducing THE MOANING WORDS, an intense investigation set in H.P Lovecraft's CTHULHU Mythos. This game mixes Trading Card Games and Gamebooks. It offers 2 complementary game modes (Battle & Story) with hours of daily content.

"Dark secrets are resurfacing. Forbidden knowledge is at your fingertips… Russia, Italy, and France: the discovery of 3 mysterious artefacts leads three unconnected people to confront the same evil. As they lift the comforting veil on our reality to reveal the unutterable, will you let the world crumble? Their fate is in your hands."

BATTLE MODE:
- Build your deck and defy entities from the CTHULHU Mythos
- Fight loads of challenging card battles and to collect all 100 cards
- Progress through 8 dark portals with different rules
- Play against your friends and rank up in the PVP leaderboards

STORY MODE:
- Discover an intense adventure where you are the hero
- Unlock a new episode every day
- Choose your own path wisely: your very Sanity is at stake
- Fight with your cards to shape the story. Winning or losing changes everything

WRITING MODE:
Discover stories from the community or write your own interactive story and add it to app.

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • September 25, 2014 Initial release
  • October 08, 2014 New version 1.7
  • October 24, 2014 New version 1.8
  • November 04, 2014 New version 1.9
  • November 13, 2014 New version 1.10
  • January 05, 2015 New version 1.11
  • January 27, 2015 New version 1.12
  • February 03, 2015 New version 1.13
  • February 19, 2015 New version 1.14
  • July 09, 2015 New version 1.16
  • October 03, 2015 New version 1.17