The Boardgames Thread / Board games

was waiting for me at my mum's place when I arrived back down there this morning, cracked it open around midday and been playing it off and (mostly on) since then and just finished it (somewhere between 5 and 8 hours of play depending on how focused on the game you are i'd say).

It's an absolute blinder. the format works so well. it actually does play like a point and click and the numbers/codes/secret text make it so you can just work your way through the options at a similar pace to in a video game, but with the bonus that you move locations by flipping a page so it skips the tedium of walking across the map most of those games had to inflate the play time.

humour is pretty funny and fitting for the game format with a punny/irreverant approach to things. theme is not adult but there's use of condoms as items and a little risque toilet humour so it's not one to play with your young kids but if you had teens i could see them also enjoying it.

in terms of value for money I paid about £20 delivered so that's quite steep in terms of £ per hours of entertainment but like TIME Stories which has one-shot episodic expansions I think they're basically an evenings entertainment packaged into a box and £20 isn't that awful for a fun night in. not to mention there's resale potential as there's only one sheet you fill out to track progress that if you replaced with a photocopy instead means the whole game is non-destructive and easy to reset to like new (as I've done).

i'm gonna give it about an 8.5/10 and say if they brought this out as a subscription model where they just send you the next part of the story every few months I'd sign up in a heartbeat.

def worth checking out.