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Hi! In which order should you play the four boxes? Best regards jonas

Thanks for this. Ended up playing playing along with you with my Black Friday 2021 copy from Target. Killed a few hours :)

I know this is super old, but I enjoyed watching the playthrough. It takes awhile to get used to the two of yours interactions. So sad you were SOOO close to some real help! I'm still trying to complete this one myself. That Bear, a few videos back, really started your downward spiral. Thanks for posting it! :)

Spoiler-free mini-review: A good case. I feel like we figured out the key stuff quickly and weren't thrown off track at any point, but we had some real debates about some of the minor details.

Cody and I like the idea that the deadly substance was a poison gas.

Just watched this today. 8months after you streamed it live and I was fully invested in the end. My husband was wondering why I was chanting Latin sounding words out loud and mumbling….”maybe it’s a “S” instead of a “Z”? While watching the candle flame flickering. I came down with the flu and had a fun sick day thanks to your video. Thank you. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

Great review! My daughter and I play a lot of co-op and some solo games; I didn't know your channel, you just gained a subscriber 🙂 I don't think I'd mind the ending being "answer these questions, then we'll give you the solution". Suspects and the Sherlock Files did the same thing, kinda, and we didn't mind.

Thanks for these reviews. I use your reviews a lot.

Using the new QAU and Downstream keyer plugins, so I have to organise the docks inn tabbed groups to keep the layout useable. Your plugin is brilliant! Changed scene collection. When I changed back to the original scene collection all the docks were there but had ungrouped. No problem! Click my saved layout and everything was tidy again. This is certainly more necessary now that additional dock functionality is being added to OBS

NYC Medical Mysteries was on sale at my local target, 50% off for only $12.50.

I'm pretty neutral when it comes to this game. I agree the papercraft body is largely for novelty but I guess that's more what I expected so I don't think I was as disappointed with it. I agree the cold case itself was enjoyable. If you just wanted to see a neat looking prop body and be able to physically interact with it, I don't think there is reason to be terribly disappointed (except for the actual coloring bug). I feel that basing a game around an autopsy is trickier than it might first sound. For one it feels like the entire autopsy should be completed, facts gathered, and then deductions made. So it doesn't really lend itself to the multiple act structure this game attempted. Along with this I also feel it's harder to have twists within the autopsy itself, because once again, it feels like it should all be done upfront. The main way I guess to get around this would be to have samples sent off for analysis and then the tests coming back and revealing something unexpected. I also feel that a simulated autopsy would always be very procedural. So I'm not sure there could be super clever insights or decisions to make with regards to the performance of the autopsy itself. It feels any clever insights/deductions would have to come after the autopsy. The facts gathered interacting with other types of clues in the case. So while I do agree this went too far into the abstract with determining weight of the attacker based on what wounds look like, it seems to me the process would always lean towards being very procedural and mechanical. Comparing wounds with chart to determine potential weapon. Comparing organ against a set of images to see if the organ was unhealthy. Comparing color of bruise to determine if injury happened before or after death etc. I think it might always feel a bit on rails. There could be decisions about test to perform for further chemical analysis but then that seems like it would not really involve the papercraft body any longer. Maybe I'm just not seeing it but I think an autopsy might be the most boring choice of medical investigation. If the patient it alive there the elements of correct diagnosis to keep them alive, the time pressure, and having to try keep invasive exploratory procedures to a minimal. If it was skeletal forensics there is the mystery of who this person was, what they looked like, even how old they were.

Thanks for the honest review, invaluable

Just wanted to hop on here and write a comment on the chance you might see it. Thank you so much for no-nonsense, straight to the point, and honest reviews of these types of games. Because of you, I purchased the Night Hunter game and my mom and I are having an amazing time playing it! Thanks for your recommendations and well done reviews!!!

Original comment by Debbie Levy: "I agree with pretty much all your points about the autopsy puzzles, but I'm bewildered as to how you judge them as 80% of the game - I'd have said 20% at most. The vast majority of materials at each stage consist of interviews, documents, working out the timeline, etc. Did you do all the autopsy stuff first, then go back and look at the other things? Because if so, oof, I can see why you had such a disspiriting experience." I re-uploaded this with a note in the video that the autopsy stuff was not quite as large a proportion of the experience as I initially suggested. -jesse

Wow! Works just like it says on the tin!!!! Many thanks 👍

Thank you for the great videos and amazing channel, subbed

Enjoyed the mechanics of the game. Timer did work very well. I do wish there had a been a bit more of a system that let you follow up on threads of the case you thought you understood more directly. For the case itself, felt like the group didn't quite sync up on the wave length of the designer. Maybe we read too much into certain clues and wound up with some overly complicated theories. Even though we understood the main thrusts for the case might have been more rewarding to have locked down some more of the details. I think maybe we should have done a third session and reread everything to try and come up with a more consistent understanding. I think that would be my advise to another group playing. While you should still theorize try to not read more into a clue than there is. And if you're near the end and still feel confused consider taking a step back and rereading everything.

Enjoyed this adult themed mystery game. The game itself has a high production quality - art is amazing, excellent narrative, long playing time. I also really like the game mechanics especially the tension the time deck gives. Will definitely buy the next game to play myself! Hoping for more cases in this series!

This is actually a re-release of an out of print box. HAK hasn't released any new content in over a year. They were recently acquired and may be transitioning their model.

Looking forward to trying this as me and my girlfriend really like Suspects. We don't usually like time limits on these kinds of games because we like to read everything and chew on every clue. If we followed your suggestion of reading more cards after the timer runs out, would the answer be too obvious or would it still be a challenge?

Is this available for global shipping. I want to buy this😊

me and my partner really enjoyed playing these together these about a year ago but the later boxes have really added more and more use of the online features which really takes you out of the mystery and makes it less cooperative and more individual because youre looking at your own phones instead. combined with the pricetag we decided not to renew our subscription because there are mystery games like these out there that we enjoy a lot more and feel more cooperative (and are cheaper!), such as the exit the.... series. overall we did enjoy them, but I wish theyd kept to using less online play and puzzles.

Thanks a lot investigator Jesse for the review ! We are working hard to unveil another investigation for this Christmas in the US. There will also be a lot of new games for 2025 :)

Hi! How are you doing? I bought Murder Mystery The Underwood Cellars. I opened the package and mixed up the documents, but on the first sheet it says to solve one file first and then the second. Could you please help me organising the documents in the “missing person” file so I can sort them out before I start playing. Thanks for your help :)

Your video motivated me to try and buy this intriguing game. You said it was available through Amazon, but in Canada there is no listing for it. They have many books entitled "Missing In Hawaii or Jamaica or other exotic locations" but no murder mystery of this title. I even tried the full title as it appears on BGG with no luck. If they have a product in the U.S., they generally can offer it through the Canadian website. I'll keep checking --- maybe it's a brand new product that isn't available here yet.

the time aspect in this game is fun! love the art! as well...

Thank you

We did it with four players and most of us were at least somewhat lost, most of the time. Too many rabbit trails to explore, all at once. Some of which truly had no purpose. As the author is, in fact, an author, I have to give some leeway for the verbosity on the website. But, with so many things to explore, we missed a lot of the narrative (In fact, the assigned readers stopped reading aloud halfway through a long read and luckily, they remembered the relevant bits hidden within. But, it's not satisfying when you are stumped by something and the reader got bored. My gripes align with yours for the most part. As an ARGer from way back, I gotta say the puzzles were a mixed bag. Your intuition to roll the die was something that took us a while to GROK. It would have been nice if the numbers on the already nonstandard die would have all oriented "north" in the final position. That last one was surely not playtested by someone who doesn't think like the designer. It seemed to be an afterthought to make the game last longer.

I agree with Jesse. Overall, it wasn't super difficult to crack for experts, but it was fun even for seasoned sleuths. Anyhow the difficulty rating written on the box (3/5) is in line with what you get. The story is interesting and the pace given by the opening of the envelops is well designed and satisfactory. The final explanation of the facts seemed logic and well written. I really appreciated the quality of the materials, the interaction with the web site and the hints system also appears quite good. Moreover no one (and remarkably no one of the native English speakers) complained for the quality of the translation. As mentioned, some parts of the investigation are on the easy side for this type of games, making it suitable for non-experts and families (apart from the theme, though), but don't be fooled: it has also challenging stuff and you will have to do clever connections to figure out the necessary details. On the negative side, a minor things is that some of the materials (I'm trying to be vague here) could be giving away few hints without a reason. I hope that they will translate also other cases in the future (old and new).

Thank you for this! I picked this up in the Netherlands but Dutch is not my mother tongue. Your explanation of the rules and reading the story really helped me out playing this! I really liked the game, especially for the price!

I have a question. You said that these games are so polished that you will be able to eliminate every suspect with hard evidence and if we find ourselves struggling to eliminate one or two people then we should go through the files again to look for clues. But the back of the booklets say that we need to "find the killer (or killers)". So if there can be multiple killers, how do we know when that's the answer instead of spending time looking for a piece of evidence that doesn't exist which leaves us with only one suspect?

When and What's the Next Murder Mystery game gonna be? and coming out ?

Official OBS forum post/resource: obsproject.com/forum/threads/jrdockie-save-and-load-window-and-dock-layouts.176038/

You can fight the monsters AFTER the chronicle page was turned. It is stated in the chronicle event ("until all the imps / demons are dealt with").

In a moment of boredom I asked chatGPT to recommend some games to me and this was the only one I had definitely never heard of so I've picked it up second-hand from GeekMarket. I'm interested to see how I feel about it.

We're a group of 40-somethings that are quite firm with "real" Board-Games. We also played a lot of the Exit- and some of the Unlock!-Games. Only two of us had tipped their toes very briefly into Pen & Paper-Roleplaying before... We bought this as some kind of gateway into the P&P-Genre and in our opinion it worked very good! Yes, the mechanics are very basic and no, there is no real (combat-)strategy other than "let the guy with the stamina-bonus do the stamina-test" and "let the gal with the wisdom-bonus do the wisdom-test", but that was absolutely okay for us! We liked the story, we liked the (very easy) puzzles and we tried our best to "roleplay" our actions. One of the big "problems" with Pen & Paper is the need for a game-master. Here the story is told through the cards and you don't need a game-master to tell you what to do and what you can't do. We enjoyed this game very much and would play a second or third game of this kind. As for cons... well... we played the german version of the game and the translation is not in line with the D&D we are used to through videogames or pop-culture. That will not concern those playing an english version, but we found it a little odd. A second con is the quality of the material, as you mentioned. Some of the tiles where extremely warped, so that it was almost impossible to place your mini correctly. As i said, we enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone looking for a gateway into roleplaying. Do you know other games that offer a Pen & Paper-like experience without the need of a game-master, aside from all the Descents, Gloomhavens and all the other Dungen-Crawlers?

Hi Jesse, I was able to watch this. I agree with your theory on the interest of females in the mystery realm genre. I also think the amount of time to learn and then play an individual game also plays a role. Do males have more time to play longer board games, over and over? It seems like they may. It would be interesting to note the demographic on live escape room games. Those rooms don't have the length of narrative of mystery games, but definitely are themed! I wonder if escape room owners see much of a variance!

Mystery games should start putting warning labels on the boxes if they contain any sort of visual / folding puzzle so Jesse can avoid them. 😄

I am sorry to spoil your enjoyment of getting rid of the ring, but I spot quite a few errors starting from 2:41:00 (the beggar in Kel): 1) This 013 Lady Luck should be discarded, not returned (this is a common mistake, and repeated at 7:05:06). 2) The food (PROVISIONS) should also be discarded, not returned (this is very minor). 3) The 384 dialogue (triggering the duplicate "A Good Deed" side quest) should never have been read. ("...if the quest "A good deed" _cannot_ be seen...".) This is the worst mistake, as this wouldn't have made this encounter a Good Deed, so the ring should still be with you (and you should not have another "A Good Deed" side quest).. Also, at 6:51:29, the Vigorina card has a brown eat symbol, so you can't just do that action on its own. And that's how it's stopping you from eating indefinitively. :)

With more experience under my belt, I'd say Forbidden Desert is still a touch better.

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Quick spoiiler-free mini-review: Lots to love with this new series. Beautifully illustrated; very high productional quality; long playing time; serious deduction required with some dense subtle clues. Really great system for the passage of time with events. But the case was not without some problems. The main one was how easy it would be to finish without seeing an absolutely essential card -- meaning that some play groups are likely to have an unpleasant time when they get to the end and get things wrong. The other problem was the huge proportion of red herring and only tangentially important confusing details, compared to clues related to the main questions. Still, looking forward to playing more games in this series. -jesse

55:17 problems w mass produced games is their often lack of story or immerision bcuz of it, its just play and be finished kinda, like u never remember a BK burger compared to a delicious steak at a fancy restaurant, really "missed" opportunity here, lije WHERE is the FLAVOR txt that shouldbe all over this game?? its like two school's of making games, those inspired and those not...

40:36 motion tracker also makes much more sense if there is a chance of sudden desth even if its only 16% chance or something..

also have instant death chances w the alien like a one out of six chances in a die or 2 out of six chances, and then if the character dont die the meter goew down instead, that SHOULD HELP a little w the tension part me thinx... on top of that ash does two damage instead of one or one damage if he steals on scrap first... also do damage for every ORDER cards!! alot of "timer" houserules possibilities here, just bcuz the game in itself is mediocre doesnt mean it has to STAY that way w many components to alter and rules around them to be tweaked...

an easy way to make a timer, is just start at the top of the crew meter, then go down one when all characters had their turn, simple...

if there is a tie it makes more thematically sense to RANDOMLY deicide w a DIE ROLL which player its going after than controlling it!! would be cool as well if it was random every time how many items each could carry from game to game (w a minimum of 1 including the coolant, so one could end up w the normal four, one could end up w two and one w three or any combo especially playing (alone) w 5 characters!! would be more exciting if u only had one objective u could do at a time and maybe just look at them from the beginning and choose the first or something and then either put them in a specific order from the start unchangeable or choose the nxt every time u complete one...? wouldn't it make more SENSE as a houserule to actually put the scrap and/or at least the conceal token WHERE the alien already already are? i think either one should play w all characters for more theme or atleast have 6 objective cards (5+1) instead of 4 to make the game more interesting, atleast for me... it should not be allowed to exploit the movement rules by walking straight into an alien, or if allowed there should be like a 50/50 of instant death modified by a die, so like if u roll 1-3 on a die ithat character is Automatically KILLED , if he survives u do normal stress damage BUT makes it ALSO RANDOM where he goes so u cant ' GAME ' the Movement as u want...

3:23:44 don’t forget the tough 2😊. I always do as well 😅it would be easier to remember if they increment the stars instead of the keyword

spoiler-free mini-review: Great writing, great mechanics with a terrific use of time and exclusive choices to create tension. A great setup with facts we were trying to make sense of right to the very end, with tons of interesting debate among us. In the end the solution wasn't completely believable but we got it mostly correct and the ride was more than worth it. Had a blast --- great stuff.

Zoned out after about 3 hours. Catching up on the rest now.