Unsolved Case Files | Ashcroft, Harmony - Cold Case Murder Mystery Game - Can You Solve The Crime? Who Killed Harmony? For Ages 14 and up

I am writing this review more of the quality of the package than anything else.The three things to solve were pretty good, although I did get the first one within minutes.My wife and I veg in front of the TV way too much so this was fine for two hours.The mystery is t so hard it takes hours of searching online for stuff. Not at all everything to solve the crime is in front of you. We really like this feature. We tried other subscription ones but they were nuts. This much better.It was fun, top quality materials, and overall impressive set.My only negative is the way to make sure you are right, you have to verify two pieces of evidence used, but sometimes there are three pieces. Person of Interest and witness statements have similar info.Anyway, it is a really good kit at a fantastic price.I hope this review was helpful!

It's really fun. I'm hooked now going to hey other cases. This one was very very easy but for the first case it was a lot of fun. The quality es also very good, the photos come in photo quality and each suspect "talk" different. It's a very good game

Very fun! You and whoever you choose to play with take on the role of cold case detectives. You go through the file and find things that were missed to solve the case. It took us a couple of hours. There were three of us playing, with only one person reading everything out loud. We then looked over everything and conferred with each other. A fun activity for people who like mysteries, the show 48 hours, or escape room games.

Wife and I bought for a date night-in. We had a great time. It was a learning curve at first trying to understand the gist of the 'game'.. and a LOT of reading to do at first before you can really dive in on theories and investigating. A twists and turns kept it fun. We're already talking about wanting to do another! Only knocking off 1 star because of the cost, as others have also said. Don't get me wrong - we're all for supporting small business, but it just seems like $20 is steep for a 1-time use 'puzzle'. We're trying to talk our friend group into buying some so we can all swap cases when we're done. Just seems like a lot of money for an assortment of paper products and packaging.

I LOVE this game! I have played a lot of other brands - Hunt a Killer, Murder Mystery in a Box, Dispatch by Breakout, Sleuth Kings and the Deadbolt Society and this one is a top favorite! First of all, and for some people this will be a negative but for me it's a positive...there are NO ciphers or puzzles! I am SO bad at ciphers and every single murder mystery experience game seems to include them. It takes me out of the game because in real murder investigations you are not going to be deciphering morse code or something like that, you will just have to rely on the documents and evidence in front of you. This is great because it's packed full of documents and it has an easy to follow format. You complete the first objective, go online to click the two pieces of evidence you used to reach the objective, and then if you're right you open the next envelope and repeat (there are three, plus a bonus one). There are also hints if you need them. Some murder mystery boxes offer NO clues which is really frustrating because sometimes you just get stuck but don't want the entire answer to the game. It's also high quality - nice looking documents, lots of photos (yes they look like stock photos, but it's fine), and plenty of red herrings and twists and turns.The only negative thing is there are quite a few typos and grammatical errors. I guess you could technically blame the "transcribers" doing the cases in-game, but that's a little weak. Also, the witness statements - the witnesses speak in a very formal way, not in a way that normal people talk, which is a little jarring. ("I witnessed the butler enter the premises at 8:40pm and that's when the incident occurred." no one talks like that!) but it's overall a very good game and there was a lot of thought put into it. My recommendation is to TAKE YOUR TIME, there is no rush. Read and re-read and look at everything carefully. I played by myself but you could play with as many people as you want! I would say this is very family friendly...there is no cursing or graphic images or anything. I would like to play the rest of the cases and highly recommend!

We really enjoyed this! Great fun for a date night. Took us about an hour and half to do - some hiccups but overall it’s really fun- just don’t overthink things and expect way too much and just enjoy. Definitely would recommend for couples or families of any age range over 12 who like solving mysteries.