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Unlock! Timeless Adventures features three new "escape room" scenarios that you can play on your tabletop.
Unlock! is a co-operative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures, while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues, check codes, monitor time remaining, etc. The three scenarios are
The Noside Show
Arsène Lupin and the Great White Diamond
Lost in the ChronoWarp
Note: Each of these has been released separately in the German market in addition to the box set.
Unlock!: Timeless Adventures – Die Noside-Show, Unlock!: Timeless Adventures – Arsène Lupin und der große weiße Diamant, and Unlock!: Timeless Adventures – Verloren im Zeitstrudel!
- One of the host's favorite Unlock! scenarios
- If you like the idea of time and going back and forth in time, that's what this one's about.
- Part of a larger series, not a standalone game discussed in full.
- Time travel, going back and forth in time
- Escape room style puzzles
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- app integration — Uses an app to enhance gameplay.
- card-driven puzzles — Utilizes a deck of cards for puzzles and challenges.
- Escape room — Part of the Unlock! series, which are escape room games.
- Time travel — The specific mission involves going back and forth in time.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Time travel is pretty much impossible to do properly.
- You just have to kind of ignore those flaws and just go with it.
- And the same thing is with board game. How do you make a time travel board game?
- Time travel is just debt time travel.
- It's really interesting how much time you're spending.