The Morrison Game Factory

I was incredibly invested in the story and you will be too 😊

Beautifully crafted and immersive, this is a game with a heartfelt story and some very clever puzzles. It does require some patience and quite a bit of reading and online interaction, but the payoff can be worthwhile if the narrative resonates.

This game was such a joy to play. The puzzles were smart and intuitive, with satisfying and elegant solutions, but the story really took center stage. We had no clue what this game would be about, but the characters revealed themselves in a surprising way and pulled us in immediately. The story was impactful, memorable, and took us on a ride. Combine that story with high-caliber puzzles, a beautiful cohesive aesthetic, and quality game materials, and you’ve got yourself another winner from PostCurious.

This table top escape room was an extremely clever blend of storytelling and unique puzzles, integrating typical escape room ones with fun board game challenges. However, this required a lot of reading and an attachment to the story to be truly one of the best table top games we have played. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time on our hands and skipped through all the reading and story, and used hints for the puzzles which required them, so we didn’t get the full experience. Nonetheless, this was a really fun table top game.

Story-driven tabletop escape game. The board game components and theme are fun. The story is excellent. Puzzles are fine but I found a couple frustrating/ambiguous. 4/5

My partner and I have played several tabletop escape rooms, and this one still stands out as my absolute favourite. At its heart is a beautifully crafted narrative that flows seamlessly through the puzzles and genuinely tugged at my heartstrings. Incredible work to evoke that kind of emotion from a tabletop game!

This game was really lovely. It had a beautiful story that really tugged at the heart strings! The puzzles were a medium difficulty with fun physical elements. There was quite a lot of reading to do on our iPad but it added to the story and was done in a novel way that we enjoyed. We played as a 2 and it took around 3 hours.

Simply one of the best at-home games I have played to date! So fun!

This is an adorable game with the best storyline I’ve ever encountered in a boxed escape. It is heartwarming and emotional, which I never thought possible from a tabletop game. We really liked a lot of the puzzles and felt many of them were very very unique. The box design was so beautiful and so immersive. Despite the box being fairly simple in its contents, we enjoyed finding hidden surprises amidst the contents. We had two cons about the game that almost pulled our review down to a like: 1. The first puzzle required too much outside knowledge. We were not familiar with the name/term of the decoding skill needed to solve the first puzzle. While it is still solvable without that knowledge, it’s too difficult to get there. It set us off on a wrong note/rough start that made us very skeptical of the rest of the game. 2. The game was meant to be linear, but it often accidentally wasn’t. Meaning, we solved puzzles too early because we had them there, but they gave us codes we didn’t know what to do with or tried on the wrong things, but then it turned out later that we were given more information to “solve” those puzzles that would have made it so much easier to actually solve them. So we greatly overcomplicated the game on accident. This made the game feel extremely difficult, when in reality it was just that we were solving puzzles with only half the information we were supposed to have. So after all was said and done, it would have been better to have the puzzles revealed step by step through separated envelopes or something that made the game play flow better. But like I said, this game is absolutely worth playing and just remember that if it feels like you don’t have all the information to solve something, chances are you don’t and should wait for more. Overall, the cons didn’t outweigh the good, but it had the potential to be a better game with a tad bit of reworking.

The story is heartwarming, the puzzles are ingenious, the props are novel, and the main character is a delight. The Morrison Game Factory is a whimsy factory. Cannot recommend this enough.