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Adventure Games: The Gloom City File

Explore places, combine items, and experience stories in Adventure Games, a series of cooperative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles, players are presented with a mysterious... (read more)

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Reviews
mixed, 68% of all reviews are favorable
Playtime
270 minutes
Published
2019
Age
12+
Publisher
Thames & Kosmos
Players
1 to 4 players
Designers
Matthew Dunstan, Kayleigh Anderson, Hauke Gerdes, and Phil Walker-Harding
Playstyle
Involved
Game's Categories
Cooperative Game, Adventure, Narrative Choice / Paragraph, KOSMOS, Thames & Kosmos, Zvezda, and Matthew Dunstan
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Description

Explore places, combine items, and experience stories in Adventure Games, a series of cooperative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles, players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play. Working together, players explore common areas, talk to people, look for clues, and combine various items to reveal the secret of the story. Depending on what decisions the players make, the course of history changes and there is no going back!

Unlike the cooperative Exit game series, titles in this series focus on the telling and discovery of the story with no time pressure. That said, many different paths can be experienced during play, with more than one correction resolution to the story waiting to be discovered. Each title consists of three chapters, each taking about 75 minutes to play. Nothing is destroyed, so the games can be played multiple times.

A message tears you away from your bleak, ho-hum existence: three people have been kidnapped! Who is behind this and why is the perpetrator pulling you of all people, four suspended cops, into the matter? Time is of the essence and so you go to the abandoned asylum to start the investigation together. Will you be able to free the hostages and catch the perp? How the thriller ends is entirely up to you!

Mechanisms:• Cooperative Game• Narrative Choice / Paragraph

Contents

  • 120 Adventure Cards
    • 84 Number Cards (01-84)
    • 32 Miscellaneous Cards
    • 4 Character Cards
  • 1 Adventure Book
  • 53 Tokens
  • 4 Character Stands
  • 18 Location Cards

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Game's Categories

Genres

  • Cooperative Game
  • Murder / Mystery

Themes

  • Adventure
  • Medical

Mechanic

  • Narrative Choice / Paragraph

Publishers

  • Thames & Kosmos
  • KOSMOS
  • Zvezda

Designers

  • Matthew Dunstan
  • Phil Walker-Harding
  • Kayleigh Anderson
  • Hauke Gerdes

Artist

  • Folko Streese

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