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Spy Club
"We could start a Spy Club," suggested Beatrice. "You know — search for clues and try to find mysteries to solve!"
In Spy Club, players work together as young detectives to solve neighborhood mysteries. It includes a replayable campaign format, with variable unlocking content, for playing a series of 5 games connected together to tell a larger story. Throughout the campaign, you’ll unlock new modules with additional rules and story elements. With 40 new modules and 174 cards in the campaign deck, you can reset everything and play multiple campaigns — with a different story and gameplay experience emerging each time.
In the standard game, each player has double-sided clue cards in front of them. On your turn, you use actions to flip, draw, and trade clue cards, gain ideas, and confirm clue cards as evidence. Confirm 5 clues of the same type to solve part of the case. As you discover more and more of the solution, a story starts to emerge: your Neighbor stole something from the ice cream shop, but what? And why? To crack the case, you must find the solution to all 5 parts before the suspect escapes or you run out of clues.
You can always play a single, standalone game of Spy Club, but the campaign mode is the recommended way to play:
Each game plays in 45 minutes, and each campaign consists of 5 games.
Some elements from each game carry forward and affect future games, with new rules and story elements are unlocked each play.
The sequence of content isn’t scripted, so each campaign will unfold differently.
Everything can be fully reset and replayed.
You only unlock a small portion of the total content in one campaign (just 4 of the 40 modules), so you can play multiple campaigns and continue unlocking new content each time!
| Ages | 10+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Play Time | 45m – 45m |
| Designer | Jason D. Kingsley, Randy Hoyt |
| Mechanics | Action Points, Cooperative Game, Memory, Set Collection |
| Theme | Card Game, Deduction, Murder/Mystery |
| Publisher | Foxtrot Games, Renegade Game Studios |
DarkSpark
This is a first comment I make for a game on BGG. I got this game on Spiel 2018 to play with my two girls (6 and 10 years old). This game is amazing. We can't stop playing it and have so much fun. The only one complain is that you have some preparation before you play a case. Often new rules are introduced and you have to read carefully to understand it. And this is hardly possible with kid's patience, they want to play immediately the next case. Bud this setup work really pays off and helps the overall campaign to be developed.
bggmatje
[September 2019] I really enjoy this cooperative game. It has the same arch as Pandemic, but this time you are the young kids from the street playing as a detective, solving a neighborhood crime. Don't let that theme deceive you, it is a very challenging game. I love that you can play a mini campaign over the course of five games, that plays a bit like a legacy game. Every play, new rules are introduced and these come from a deck of 200 cards, so there is a lot of extra gameplay to be discovered. The rulebook is orderly and easy to read. Still we always manage to forget a tiny thing, so I guess it can be considered a bit fiddly.
gatchaman
We went through the campaign four times, so 20 plays. That's pretty great. The game itself is fairly simple, but the campaign elements keep things fresh enough to keep us coming back. The artwork and setting are great, perfect for playing with the kids. We're done with it now and it's time to move on, but it gave us a lot of enjoyment.