It took me a while to complete this review because it was tough finding people who would play and stick with it. First attempt my boyfriend bailed during the first few minutes. I tried again with a group of friends and we at did get through to solving the mystery! Great concept, high quality pieces and sturdy packaging. I liked the variety of game components from the online videos to physical tools to realistic looking documents. Really well done. Where we got tripped up even the 2nd time was on the lengthy intro information. There was a ton of pre-reading, so you really have to do this with a group of people who are fully committed, open minded, patient, willing to get a little lost, and into puzzles like escape rooms. The game is rated “easy” on the box and they did have multiple ways to get to the answer, but it still took us about an hour and some hints. It’s set up as a single use game, but you could feasibly use it more than once. Cool concept, would be fun for a dinner party or family holiday!

WIP: will update review once complete. I am excited though because it gives off Nancy Drew vibes. I just haven’t had time to start this task but look forward to it.

The box comes with lots of cool props and and “evidence” for playing. Although The ghost communication box it comes with doesnt seem to really work at all, Me and my friends attempted just a casual play-through of it without really paying the most attention. There doesnt seem to be much for instructions, so it was kind of a struggle to really get anywhere. Not to mention the only way to confirm if you beat the game or not is by going to a website in one of the papers, which i could not get to work. my phone just kept pulling up a page not found. It also seems like theres not much, if any replay-ability. In the end we never ended up even finishing the game so i guess replaying isnt really a concern. Overall i think there are some cool concepts, like the newspaper/magazine page cutouts, photographs etc. even the online aspect of it has some potential to add to the game. But its all executed so poorly and with little to no re playability, its just no where near as good as it could be. Im sure someone could figure it out and have fun with it but i just wasn’t able to