EXIT: The Game - Kidnapped in Fortune City

One of my favourites in the city. It's far less linear than the typical exit games and makes it feel like an entirely different experience. Great puzzles that match the theme.

Kidnapped in Fortune City has to be among the harder of the EXIT escape boxes. This EXIT box is among my favourite for the levels of creativity with the use of everything in the box and the mixture of puzzles, but as mentioned this comes at the cost of this box being incredibly difficult. The theming of this game follows a sheriff in a small town trying to figure out who committed a gold robbery, the sheriff has vanished and its up to you and your team to solve the case before time runs out! As mentioned above this murder mystery-esque element adds to the difficulty of the usual puzzle nature of the EXIT games. But it also adds to the enjoyment of the game, when we played through this box we had the whole town mapped out on our dining room table with all of the puzzle elements and it really helped immerse us within the story and environment of the town. There's a large mixture of puzzles in this box that really utilise all of the components of the set and that's what makes the EXIT games so unique in comparison to other tabletop escapes I've done. Overall a great box, but definitely leading more towards the expert side of the difficulty rating. Difficulty - 4.5 / 5 Puzzles - 4 / 5 Theming - 4 / 5 Creativity - 4.5 / 5 Enjoyment - 4 / 5 Value For Money - 5 / 5 Overall Score - 4 / 5

Took a while to get the hang of but very cool. We were exhausted by the end and didn’t finish the last couple clues

Really liked this one! I wasn’t actually expecting this game to be a whodunnit mystery, and as a huge fan of the genre, I was pleasantly surprised! Wouldn’t have expected it from the Western setting, but I appreciated it nonetheless. I liked the nonlinear nature of visiting locations in any order to solve puzzles within. The puzzles were shockingly fairly easy for a 3.5/5 difficulty game. I think what made it easy was the fact that once I chose a location, I had to commit to solving that puzzle to move on. As a result, I generally only had the clues to that puzzle in front of me at any given time. And those puzzles weren’t too hard in the first place. The mystery was really fun to deduce!

The Exit Game delivers on many levels. 1) Range of Difficulties 2) inexpensive for a group 3) Take Home fun 4) well designed 5) high quality This stay at home option for obsessed escapists is definitely a great option. It’s a great option for large families (that suffer the burden for the entire rooms price). There is a scoring feature and clues/hints are available which reduce your score.

I have a group for escape rooms, but the layout of this one was clunky and hard to get into, so I ended up finishing this one solo. Thought the Werewolf series was better with a group, if you’re unable to do an actual escape room.