iDventure - "The Heist"

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Company: iDventure

Game: The Heist

Country: Germany 🇩🇪

Language: English

Type of Game: Tabletop Games 📬

Genre: Heist, Mission

Date Played: November 28, 2021

Difficulty (based on 2 players): 7/10

Size of Team: 1-5 players (Ages 17+)

Time: 60-150 Minutes (Suggested 90 Mins.)

Price: 23,00 €

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You are a team that must instruct and guide your 3 field agents to carry out covert operations and steal important resources that a cartel is using to plan a massive cyber attack.

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Nice neat box, very light - contains paper artefacts only. Maps, leaflets, photos, notes and more.

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You need to first install or access a communications app. When we played this was Telegram which I’d never used before, but you can now also use WhatsApp. It is recommended that with a team of 4 playing you all access one field agent each and the AI “helper” who guides you through the mission as your assistant. Hints can be taken from this Assistant as you need them.

A couple of introductory letters give you the background and information about the case, and then you begin by speaking to the field agents, in turn, to see what they need from you. You then use the information to hand and various online websites you are directed to or discover to provide what they need. They will then go and perform what they need to. Their success also relies on you successfully providing information to your other agents too and their behaviour and actions, so they will all at some point wait until everything is in place before reporting back, giving the game its “Live” element. This works very well and felt ultra-realistic.

We found all the story to be believable, the responses, videos and photos sent by the agents were a nice touch, and the fact that you didn’t just get an “incorrect” if you were wrong (which we only were once), but instead a carefully crafted and realistic response that didn’t give away the answer but made you think again.

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The puzzles are a good mix of types - logic, lateral thinking, deduction and were all very believable in terms of the theme and how something like this would play out. There was only one answer that we didn’t quite understand the reasoning behind, but when we did see the answer we could see why that was the case.

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Anyone who loves detective/crime based adventure games but is looking for something a little different. We played as a two but you could play solo or with up to about 6 players we think comfortably, with pairs of players working on what each agent needs. Of course you can only play this once, but it can be easily gifted or shared with others as nothing gets damaged in the course of play.

A really great game that even impressed my difficult-to-impress husband who really got into the plot and especially enjoyed one puzzle in which he had an ah-ha moment and was very proud :)

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