Game Info
Year
2024
Players
1
Age
14+
Playtime
4 min
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Description
The Morrison Game Factory is a narrative puzzle adventure based in a board game factory full of mystery. On the outside, the factory is busily churning out games for the whole family to enjoy. On the inside, hidden messages and untold stories await. Solve riddles, crack codes, and unravel the secrets of the Morrison Game Company...all while falling in love with the characters of this sweet and funny puzzletale.
The Morrison Game Factory can be played solo or cooperatively, and is best suited for 1-4 players. While designed for ages 14+, younger sleuths can join in the fun with some adult guidance. The total gameplay time averages about 2-4 hours depending on the group size and experience level.
Contents:
- Introduction letter
- Maintenance log
- Game board
- Tuck box with cards
- Morrison Game Company catalog
- Dice, meeples, and other miscellaneous game components
- A locked pouch containing even more secrets!
-description from designer
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Board Gaming Ramblings Top List at 7:24 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Amazing narrative that evoked laughter and tears
- Fun puzzles
- Theme ties everything together
- Great step up from Unlock! and Exit
- Silly, fun, and has an appreciated story
Cons
- One-time play game unless you want to know the solutions.
Thematic elements
- Puzzling together a story
- A game factory or an old game factory
- Story-driven puzzle experience
Comparison games
- Unlock!
- Exit
- Mot of Frankenstein
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- narrative integration — The theme is deeply integrated with the puzzles and story.
- Puzzle solving — Solving puzzles to piece together the story.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a also kind of a worker placement game but you you place workers three times then you move them three times to do something else and then you are deciding what actions you want for the next round so you have like you want yes and it's really clever the timing of those things
- The actions that you do the most multiple times will uh be upgraded so you get to do them better and better the more you do them
- It's a really really fun game one of yeah obviously one of the best of the year
- I really like El Grande
- it's just pure fun
- this is a game about exploring space and trying to find a connection to the alien
- it's so tight on the resources it's like ridiculously tight
- this is a very accelerating game
- the resource management in combination with all the fun things you do on the board trying to uh basically upgrade your actions uh with these technologies that you can get this this is so much fun it's so fun
- it's so tight it gives you again that Gaia project Terror Mystic feeling where in the beginning you're like it's so hopeless
- I love the exploration of the aliens they changed up the game a little bit from time to time and it is again a plain fun game
- this is one where you have this main mechanism that makes the game really good and then you have the the um H the mini games around it which are good but it is the main thing in the middle that makes the game sing that makes the game feel like a fantastic fun time
- there's so many things about this I love and also one thing that I think in this game was absolutely Superior to Gloom Haven is like the level this sign if you could call it that
- I love how you choose your actions
- it has these Snappy it's not super fat but I'm comparing it to Gloom heaven so but it's so it's you talked about it you were right
- Amonia has it has these Snappy it's not super fat but I'm comparing it to Gloom heaven so but it's so it's you talked about it you were right
- I praed this game up and down since I played it
- I'm over the moon for this game it is such an amazing game
- There's so many corporations in this game so you have a lot of V ability
- they feel different
- the workers are different colors they don't like they they get better if you do them with a specific action and there is just so much to love
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Board Gaming Ramblings Analysis at 20:23
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Quotes (from this video)
- Congratulations to all the nominees and spectacular and to you for watching this award video Woo we will see you in 2025 bye
- The spoiler alert he has designed set Tea Garden Galileo galile and the designer is obviously then toas holck a designer just like came out of nowhere got so much hype this year and I will say even though like we have ranked those games we like all three of those games like two of them better than the last one but this is a designer I am looking forward to see more games from
- We are going to be bringing you the nominations and the winner for the best card game of 2024 and the nominees are Star Wars unlimited cortis an misos and 5050
- Lone wolves yay and lone wolves was one of my favorite small box games of the year so I am so glad it made the list
- If you like a High degree of uh interaction that head-to-head kind of style game this is I think my all-time favorite two-player trick game
- Congratulations Agonia for winning best narrative campaign game for 2024 in these rambling Awards
- Harmonies congratulations to Harmony is one of the most played games from this last year with the People's Choice as well over at the dice Towers uh game of the year uh so this is one that is very impressive so kudos to harmonies the winner of this year's abstract Game of the Year
- Tranquility the ascent yes congratulations indeed we have played that game do you remember we were we were building the the the oh my goodness I love that game oh there we go I love that game it's a deserved win I'm sorry I don't hate co-op games anymore it's an amazing game it's beautiful on the table if you haven't played it check it out it won fair and square this is a great game
- The winner is flip seven
- To the winner is iron Forest congratulations
- Most Innovative game is War Stories Occupied France designed by David Neil and David Thompson art by Mara and published by Osprey games congratulations to all the nominees but of course congratulations to War Stories Occupied friends
- we have made a big list of awards that we are giving away to different games
- this is all of the awards we have made a big list of awards that we are giving away to different games
- we want to highlight these amazing games that gives our or all so much joy
- I focus on cozy games welcoming games family games card games um also solo games as well
- Winner for the category of the most Innovative game is War Stories Occupied France
- that was amazing I really enjoyed that I hope you did too
- please go check all those amazing people out because they make really good content
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Board Gaming Ramblings Other at 5:47 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Cool board game theme
- Good narration
- Fun puzzles
- Tactile elements
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Board game theme
- Narrative based
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- narrative — It is also a narrative based and like the narration is so good.
- Tactile puzzles — And also it has really fun puzzles with a lot of tactile elements as well.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This blew us away like immensely.
- It has so many different kind of puzzles and both um like both mentally but also a lot of tactile elements to it.
- They they are like if if you like puzzle games, you're going to insta back everything that they do.
- Our favorite puzzle experience.
- Of all time.
- This is one of those games where we do you have the things on the table. You look at them and you can see the connections. you might just put it away because there's so many puzzles you can do at the same time which is a great one of the great great strength of this one.
- Most of these puzzles... is in some way word based.
- So yeah, some fluency in English is very essential.
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The Cardboard Herald Review at 0:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- weighty core narrative
- clever and surprising puzzle design
- strong balance between story and mechanics
- bespoke, tactile components
- moments of genuine humor that land well
Cons
- lacks the lavish knockout components of some prior Post-curious releases
- some lengthy narrative blocks can impact pacing
- unclear accessibility for first-time players due to experience-based pacing
Thematic elements
- mystery, subversion of expectations, puzzle-driven storytelling
- Urban exploration within an abandoned Morrison Factory, with discovered materials hinting at a larger mystery
- largely linear with an in-universe computer interface, on-demand hints, and periodic narrative blocks
Comparison games
- Lacrimosa
- The Light and the Mist
- Adrift
- The Emerald Flame
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- in-universe computer interface — players input responses to advance, receive hints, and unlock narrative progress
- kit-driven presentation — bespoke tokens, boards, and instructions that feel integral to the story
- narrative blocks — periodic narrative installments that punctuate the puzzle flow
- Narrative Choice — periodic narrative installments that punctuate the puzzle flow
- on-demand hints — the interface delivers hints to keep players oriented and moving
- physical puzzle solving with bespoke components — uses tokens, colors, numbers, symbols, and other components to assemble and deduce solutions
- Storytelling — bespoke tokens, boards, and instructions that feel integral to the story
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Morrison game Factory is a brilliant debut by Lauren Bellow and a worthwhile experience for fans of puzzle Tales and Escape rooms and just the puzzle curious alike
- the puzzles well that's where the game feels most like a return to form
- the game's beautiful balance of narrative and mechanical originality more than makes up for
- we finished in about four hours in a team of two
- beautifully illustrated as this box is
- defying expectations of what a puzzle tail looks sounds and feels like the Morrison game Factory is a brilliant debut
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