Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.8/5
Collection
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Description
Modern deduction game where players unravel mysteries in Cuzco Peru by interrogating suspects and using logical deduction across time
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Board Game Buzzz Gen Con Preview at 31:30 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84871 · mention_pk 216444
Click to watch at 31:30 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
highly positive
Pros
- sequel to a favorite game
- new mysteries and locations
- engaging deduction gameplay
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- solving a mystery
- Cusco, 1450
Comparison games
- Chronologic Paris 1920
- Chronologic Babylon
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deduction — a deduction game where players gather clues to solve a mystery.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Gen Con is the biggest board game convention in America.
- I literally had over 70 that I had saved.
- In Spooktacular, you are becoming the monsters, I believe, that are haunting the people who are going to the movie theaters and like watching your movie.
- As one of those monsters, you are now free to wreak havoc. Terrify and devour unsuspecting movie goers in a race to become the most terrifying monster of all time.
- This is Tea Witches. Okay, for the OP games, I have been so excited for this one. I'm so nervous that I'm going to play it and it's going to be meh or all right because I've like built it up so much in my head.
- Everything about this game just screams me and I need it.
- I'm so sad that I'm not going to Gen Con.
- Like I have FOMO so
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Totally Tabled Discussion at 8:12 sentiment: positive
video_pk 30073 · mention_pk 88368
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- familiar deduction framework in a new theme
- continues a successful series (Paris 1920 previously referenced by host)
Cons
- thematic familiarity may reduce novelty for some players
Thematic elements
- Cusco, 1450; mystery and investigation
- deduction murder mystery in historical setting
- deduction/mystery progression
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 1–4 players — cooperative or competitive deduction variants
- Deduction — solve a murder through clues and structured rounds
- deduction/mystery progression — solve a murder through clues and structured rounds
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Quotes (from this video)
- Shallow Sea is a fantastic Thailand game reminiscent of Cascadia and Harmonies.
- I think it's the most thinky and puzzly of the trio, especially if you add the expansion.
- Next up is the solo only dice game 20 Strong Tangle Woods by Chip Theory Games.
- you can use the original 20 Strong core box with these expansions, or you can instead get the new core box that comes bundled with the red deck.
- The Hobbit There and Back Again is a competitive roll and write adventure game for one to four players.
- You're going to draft dice to make pathways, collect resources, and perform actions.
- In Horrified DnD, there appears to be cards that can mitigate that.
- Propolis is a tableau building card game about medieval bee colonies competing to dominate the realm.
- Chronologic Cusco 1450 is the next game in the deduction murder mystery series.
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