Monochrome Inc Adventure Game from Thames & Kosmos for Ages 16+

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1. Clienteamazon Verified Buyer – 7 August 2024

   Muy recomendable. El producto llegó rápido. Hubo un problema con el envío y me lo solucionaron todo.
   

2. LoveBoardGames Verified Buyer – 26 August 2024

   This is my first Adventure Games choose your own adventure game. I realize that on boardgamegeek the ratings for the earlier ones are higher rated than Adventure Games: The Volcanic Island, but that didn’t matter to me as I enjoyed it for what it is. + The app is awesome. I love the Kosmos Helper App for my Android device. The tutorial is basically walking you through the manual and with additional animations vs. one or two stills. > I would normally give this a negative because the provided adventure book has very tiny text to read. But since I can lean to the app for almost all text it is less than a negative. The only text I so far have to read in the book is the location cards A, B, C, etc. I haven’t found if that text is available in the app or not, since the app is driven by numbers, not letters. + My picture is the initial setup with all four characters (game mat/XXL mouse pad not included…I just use one to make picking up cards easier). The setup is easy to do. > The artwork on the front of the box is awesome and sets an expectation…only to find cartoony artwork on the inside. The cards and locations art is totally fine and feels like I’m playing an app, but there was an initial disconnect from that first expectation set. + I like how there are certain events going on and yo have a time tracker depending on your choices + There is a fairly easy Save game process, by taking a picture of your map and tokens and then putting these into a bag along with any items you’ve found. + It did take me just about 60-minutes, after the tutorial, to complete Chapter 1. The time savings comes mostly from our house ruling that all items are in a community pile and accessible to everyone anywhere…even if people aren’t together. They actually suggest in the rulebook that this is an option if you want to speed up the gameplay. + After chapter 1 I already see several locations I never visited and wanted to go back and visit them by starting over again, but I should wait till I’m done with my first playthrough and then the chapter 1 content will be less fresh the second time around. + Which characters attempt which actions do matter. There were two choices in chapter 1 that I found (there may be more) where I had to pick which character performs the action. If I didn’t have all four characters at the location or I was only playing with two characters, then the results would have changed. + I think this scales well enough for 1 to 4 players. Solo play consists of a player playing two(2) characters. Many times there is at least one or more places to visit per location card, so even with four characters/players, someone has something to do versus all following one leader to each location. You could also have each player read only their text and then meet up with the group and share their findings if you don’t have the app read aloud or players don’t read aloud. It is co-operative, so no incentive to not share information with everyone. OVERALL: T.I.M.E. Stories was a fun co-operative ‘visual novel ‘/choose your own adventure type of game. But it is expensive. This is a much more affordable product and gives me the same feel as the other game. I’m excited to finish all chapters, run through it at least one more time, and make different choices with different characters. A great gift to give someone or give yourself.

   

3. Delicious Verified Buyer – 24 October 2024

   I love escape rooms and gave the EXIT series a chance. I loved those from Kosmos so I thought I’d give this a chance. This was a good little adventure in a box. Unlike the EXIT games this can be replayed. Although it is the same kind of feeling that once you’ve beat it, you already know the puzzle. But reselling is easy 🙂
   

4. Christina Verified Buyer – 28 October 2024

   Castle is the best, this is strange sometimes
   

5. New In Shrink Verified Buyer – 25 February 2025

   This game makes for an amazingly fun day or evening of gaming with friends. It sets up a light session that can be enjoyed equally by everyone at the table by exploring and narrating a story that develops between all the players. I’ll avoid any and all spoilers here but still try to give a great feel of what you can expect. Most important to know is that if you’ve played any of the EXIT games or other choose your own path type of games, you will most certainly enjoy this experience. If you are not familiar with those types of games you can expect to encounter puzzles, riddles, or something similar to clues to help you make decisions on where your game will go. In this game in particular you’ll make choices and pick the path that will lead you to the end of the game. This allows the possibility to play again in the future if you like, unlike some other games of this sort, no parts or components are removed or damaged, and you can put everything back in place and go again. I’ve only played through this once, I believe I would either wait a long time between a future play of it, or would introduce it to an entirely new Group and play as more of a minor participant and just help if needed, or when new things are encountered that I didn’t see on a previous play. Again this is a nice benefit of this game; you can restore it to the starting game and share it with others. You will encounter some nice artwork as you play through this that I’m sure you will enjoy. Another great feature of this are the narrator app that you can use to go along with it. I highly recommend that, although if you prefer to keep electronics out of your board games you can easily follow along and read from the book as you progress through the chapters of the game. I’ll also mention that having 3 chapters to the game, you can really immerse yourself and go through all of the adventure in a day, each chapter maybe taking a maximum of an hour or so. Or you can split it up over a few different nights; you can save your progress and then setup and continue later. We played our adventure in one sitting and liked the feel of completing it in one session. This is a really great day of gaming for friends and family, you’ll enjoy picking your path as you go and trying to escape The Dungeon. I hope you enjoy this one as much as we did.

   

6. Todd Murray Verified Buyer – 14 March 2025

   Slightly harder than the others in the series, but highly captivating and lasted 3 hours
   

7. An Honest Opinion Verified Buyer – 19 March 2025

   Great small party entertainment
   

8. Teresa L. Verified Buyer – 28 March 2025

   We’ve done many of these games- and love them! This one specifically was awful to play, unorganized and missing pieces. Cards were supposed to be face up but told us face down so we had no where to go. Room T was labeled room J but was wrong. There was no missions that were fun and inquisitive, it was all just guessing and trying every possible combination to get an answer. Disappointed but will try another one again hoping it was just a bad batch.

   

9. Jamie Verified Buyer – 28 March 2025

   Really enjoyed this one
   

10. Vinay Ramu Verified Buyer – 23 April 2025

    Seller is genuine and item is good quality