[...] First off, there were several different tabletop games in this universe and I was talking about Mansions of Madness, not Arkham Horror. Mother's Embrace (the video game the thread is about) started off based on Mansions and that's what I was talking about. Mansions had two editions, 2011 and 2016, and the way the timing works out I more likely played the 2011 version, which was not perfect but still excellent.
I did also play the proper Arkham Horror game, most likely the 2005 version, which was also super good. (This was the game that contained the Azathoth card I showed above). The scope of Arkham Horror is the entire city, and much of the play takes place out on the streets, dodging/fighting monsters while moving, square by square, between key locations. The gameplay is more traditionally "board gamey". Mansions is more of a miniatures-based "dungeon crawl", going room to room, positioning units etc., although notably the game is not all combat all the time. Think of a dungeon crawl with equal parts combat, traps, and "tricks", where fighting is often inevitable but you want to avoid triggering it as long as you can; you want to be searching for clues, getting the right key to the right door etc. all on a time limit. Anyway, Embrace looks much more like a dungeon crawl and is clearly still modeled on Mansions.