Game Info
Year
2026
Players
1-4
Age
8+
Playtime
45 min
Publisher
Yaofish Games
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Waiting on more creator content
Description
A cooperative detective game where players work as rookie detectives solving interconnected crime cases by examining physical evidence and logical clues
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Board Games With B7 Top List at 16:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great family weight deduction game
- Cooperative mode shines
- Charming theme
- Fun components
- Plenty of clues
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Assisting Sherlock Holmes and Scotland Yard with baffling cases
- London during the time of Sherlock Holmes
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Points — familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points
- Deduction — familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction
- Dice Rolling — familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics including roll and move, dice rolling
- Grid Movement — familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement
- market — familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction, pattern recognition, and a market.
- Pattern Recognition — familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction, pattern recognition
- roll and move — familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics including roll and move
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- It's an epic adventure and exploration game that manages to deliver a surprisingly tense and thinky journey in a relatively short amount of time.
- If you enjoy Thinky Adventures, I definitely recommend setting sail with this one.
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Board Games With B7 Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Enjoyable family deduction game
- Cooperative mode is fun, especially on hard mode
- Adjustable to different skill levels
- Charming artwork and presentation
- Great component quality
- Competitive version with house rules is highly recommended
- Adds interaction and tension through trading in the competitive house rule version
Cons
- Official competitive mode did not work for the reviewer
- Competitive mode removes components and fun elements
- Competitive mode is less interesting than cooperative mode
Thematic elements
- Deduction and solving crimes
- London during the time of Sherlock Holmes
Comparison games
- Clue
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Points — Sherlock Squad is a familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics, including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction, pattern recognition, and a market.
- Deduction — Sherlock Squad is a familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics, including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction, pattern recognition, and a market.
- Dice Rolling — Sherlock Squad is a familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics, including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction, pattern recognition, and a market.
- Grid Movement — Sherlock Squad is a familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics, including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction, pattern recognition, and a market.
- Hidden Information — The investigation result must be kept hidden from the other players.
- market — Sherlock Squad is a familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics, including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction, pattern recognition, and a market.
- Pattern Recognition — Sherlock Squad is a familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics, including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction, pattern recognition, and a market.
- roll and move — Sherlock Squad is a familyweight deduction game featuring various mechanics, including roll and move, dice rolling, grid movement, action points, deduction, pattern recognition, and a market.
- Set Collection — Players will move around the board, which is set in the London area, complete missions to earn money, purchase clue cards and item cards, and use them to aid them in their quest to find out who the culprits are.
- Trading — Players can buy from other players, exchange cards, and trade with one another.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Four crimes, a room full of suspects, and only the clues can lead you to the truth.
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data and sensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.
- The artwork in this game is absolutely charming and gorgeous.
- Overall, Sherlock Squad is a great family deduction game that I've really enjoyed playing.
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