Game: Sherlock: Death of the 4th of July
Year: 2018
Publisher: GDM Games
Designer: Francisco Gallego Arredondo, Martà Lucas Feliu, Josep Izquierdo Sánchez Year: 2018
Sherlock is
a new series of games from GDM Games and Enigma Studio,
and as the name suggests, you are crime solvers. There are currently three
games available in English and we chose to take a first look at the one with
the most appealing theme from 4th July, an aeroplane or archaeology. Despite our initial impression that these
would be a similar size of game to the EXIT series, we were surprised to see
that each game is smaller than a standard deck of 52-playing cards. The game is
just 32 cards and a rule/solution sheet, making it easily one of the smallest
games we’ve ever seen!
The game is
played cooperatively with a recommended 1-8 players (with special rules for solo play).
You start the game knowing nothing and eventually, through identifying the
relevant information, you will together come up with a theory of what happened
and who committed the crime. We won't spoil any of the story in this review.