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Spy Club

Game ID: GID0299195
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"We could start a Spy Club," suggested Beatrice. "You know — search for clues and try to find mysteries to solve!"

In Spy Club, players work together as young detectives to solve neighborhood mysteries. It includes a replayable campaign format, with variable unlocking content, for playing a series of 5 games connected together to tell a larger story. Throughout the campaign, you'll unlock new modules with additional rules and story elements. With 40 new modules and 174 cards in the campaign deck, you can reset everything and play multiple campaigns — with a different story and gameplay experience emerging each time.

In the standard game, each player has double-sided clue cards in front of them. On your turn, you use actions to flip, draw, and trade clue cards, gain ideas, and confirm clue cards as evidence. Confirm 5 clues of the same type to solve part of the case. As you discover more and more of the solution, a story starts to emerge: your Neighbor stole something from the ice cream shop, but what? And why? To crack the case, you must find the solution to all 5 parts before the suspect escapes or you run out of clues.

You can always play a single, standalone game of Spy Club, but the campaign mode is the recommended way to play:

Each game plays in 45 minutes, and each campaign consists of 5 games.
Some elements from each game carry forward and affect future games, with new rules and story elements are unlocked each play.
The sequence of content isn’t scripted, so each campaign will unfold differently.
Everything can be fully reset and replayed.
You only unlock a small portion of the total content in one campaign (just 4 of the 40 modules), so you can play multiple campaigns and continue unlocking new content each time!

Year Published
2018
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positive
Pros
  • Kid-friendly game
  • Clever legacy system
  • Cute game
  • Ready to be reviewed
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  • Cooperative puzzle
  • Mystery investigation
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  • Legacy system — Clever legacy system integration
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  • I used to call this a shelf of shame that was a pretty common thing to call it back in the day and I don't never really liked that term because I don't feel shame that I haven't got to these games
  • this is mostly work like this is just a backload of things I probably should get to
  • people will still be looking for it
  • it doesn't matter if the game is like 20 years old people will still be looking for it
  • I've painted this one and I spent a lot of time doing it
  • there's no point putting them on the channel I think both of them have been out of print for like a decade
  • one of the worst kickstarters by one of the worst studios in board gaming history
  • Golden Bell Studios did everything wrong you could possibly think of
  • purely toxic company run by incredibly terrible people
  • it would be kind of a joke that I'd be able to do a three minute video of feudum
  • this game has a tutorial video online that's like 40 minutes long
  • The Rose explanation video feels like a parody but it's actually how the game is played
  • nothing personally to me puts me off playing a game that then sitting down unboxing it and having a craft assignment
  • stop making me spend hours assembling your damn games
  • this is an uncontrollable mess right now
  • I'm a full-time dad and I'm really doing this in the evenings
  • I have a finite space and also it just puts pressure and stress on me having a whole bunch of crap there that I know I'm not going to get to
  • I'm going to do a big cull
  • I will be published by this company but that doesn't mean I'm going to be slavishly devoted to every single game they put out
  • I am a sucker for cute animal games like I really am
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