Thames & Kosmos Adventure Games: Monochrome Inc., Cooperative Card Games for Adults and Teens, Board Games for Game Night, For 1 to 4 Players, Age 16+

Great fun for 2 to 4 players, the game has interesting art and mechanics and took us about 3 hours to play through. This is a story-driven game, with some interesting choices and a few light riddles and puzzles, an engaging way to spend an evening with friends or family.There is a free helper app that can read the game text for you like an audiobook, and will also teach you the game, ideal for first time players.This specific scenario is set in a medieval fantasy world, you start off trapped in a dungeon that you must escape. You progress through 3 chapters, each with clearly defined goals, and make choices and solve puzzles as you go. There are several possible endings, depending on how well you did and some of your choices.

We love these games! Perfect for lockdown and to use up a good few hours! I love the fact you have to work together to solve the puzzles, and the way the story plays out is brilliant. Prepare for a few hair pulling moments where you just can't figure out what goes with what, and then the lightbulb moments where it all becomes clear. As a tip, definately download the app. Its not essential, but we found it really helped bring out the story! I've only knocked off a star as there isn't much replay value, but perhaps in 2024 when we're still in lockdown I'll dig it out again!

Quite a clever little game, well packaged and manufactured.It has 3 chapters, each taking about 90 minutes. I can't really go into too much detail about the story other than to say your goal is to escape a dungeon. There's lots of puzzles to solve and loot to collect along the way. The game mechanics are quite well thought out (but I found the ending a bit confusing). There's also a free helper app to read out all the descriptions if you don't want to.However, once you've played through it the first time you've seen almost all that the game has to offer. There are a few points where you can choose to do one thing or another and I did miss an opportunity to figure out a puzzle before I was blocked from going back, but I think I saw 95% of what the game had to offer in one sitting. I wouldn't want to play it again just for those few alternate choices. Having played it solo, playing with friends after would put me at a massive advantage as to knowing how things will play out.Also, I would avoid playing all 3 chapters in one sitting as it outstayed it's welcome a little bit and had me using the help option a bit more than I probably should have toward the end, but that's not really the fault of the game, rather mine.I passed it on to my niece, who isn't really a board game sort of person, but she and her other half said they really enjoyed it.So, a good game, but bear in mind it's probably a one-and-done.

We love escape rooms so were looking for something similar to keep us occupied during Lockdown. This game kept us (2 adults and a 13 year old) entertained for literally the whole day! Simple to get started and loved having the app which provided a spoken description of each step (much better than reading everything!). It was fairly simple to work out how to combine objects to solve tasks- the tricky thing was locating all the objects, as they are in lots of different rooms. We found keeping detailed notes of the objects and characters we met really helped! Our top tip is to make sure you listen to ALL the information, as we initially missed something in our hurry to combine every object so had to go back and listen to everything again! So take your time and analyse everything in every room carefully. You could probably play this game again once or twice as there are alternative routes to success- Eg: choosing different characters to help you or a different path to follow. Also, it would be quite good fun to try to beat your first score or best time. It would be a good memory test!

This game was brilliant. Honestly can't recommend it enough. I'd previously done a few of the Thames and Kosmos escape rooms but this was on a different level entirely.It is split into three chapters, which we played over three nights. The game description says 90 minutes per chapter but in my experience it was more like 2-3 hours per chapter - perhaps we were just slow! We used the app, which added to the game a lot and meant that we didn't have to keep reading cards aloud. I've used game apps in the past where the voice has been annoying but this was very listenable.I'd say age 16+ for this game is about right, both in terms of theme and the level of concentration required.This is a game you can only really play once. You don't alter the playing materials so could pass it to someone else afterwards, but you're putting clues together and I don't think a replay once you know all the answers would be any fun.This was the most engaging game I've played for a very long time. I'll be ordering The Dungeon, by the same maker.

Not as much fun as the exit games for us but well thought out and good quality. I think for the price it's worth trying to see if you enjoy it. There is replay ability in the fact that you don't destroy any of the materials however I can't imagine you wanting to play it after you've figured the story out.We found this Adventure game limited, there was always an obvious route or answer with no leaps of intuition or puzzle to work out. Yes you need to think and use the correct tools for the job, send the best person etc. But these decisions are pretty obvious to figure out, if you make a mistake you'll immediately work out how to fix it for the rest of the game.We got to the end of level 2 before we gave up as it was all the same stuff and getting repetitive.If you had the same experience as us try the Exit games by the same company which are much more fun.

Slightly harder than the others in the series, but highly captivating and lasted 3 hours

Another game in the "Adventure Games" series.The game has 3 chapters, each take aprox. 90 minutes.Each player can play the game 1 time (afterwards you know the answer) but parts are not destroyed during gameplay, so you can gift it to someone else

Really enjoyed this one

Castle is the best, this is strange sometimes

Bought this for a weekend visit to my friend's cottage (after isolating for 2 weeks). She's pretty competitive, so it's best to find games that are cooperative in nature, and this fit the bill nicely. We broke it out after dinner one night, and at first it seemed like a lot to figure out in terms of how to play, but it really didn't take long before we were exploring rooms and finding things. I didn't time it, but there are three chapters, and each one took at least an hour. We ended up doing this over two nights. We enjoyed taking turns reading from the book, we read each other's outcomes.The game is for 1-4 players, and I'm sure it would be a fun family game. There is definitely more than one outcome, we certainly didn't use all the cards, so you can get at least two full games out of it, and then pass it along, since you don't need to ruin anything with this series. I know we made a couple of 'mistakes' that I'll do differently next time, but that's what's fun about it.It's pretty nearly impossible to die, and I don't think you can actually lose, either, so that makes it especially good for families!My only issue was around looking up the numbers in the book. You either look up a 4, 5 or 6 digit number, and we made the mistake more than once of looking for a 4-digit among the 5-digits or vice versa. Not a huge deal, but we almost didn't even realize it a couple of times, and could have gone on thinking that option wasn't in the book when it actually was. Second problem with using the book is, as time went on, it got easier to accidentally cheat, because you would be looking for a specific number, and if it's not there, you'd see the numbers before and after it (you can't help it), but sometimes that gave you the answer. So next time I'm going to try using the app instead.