Team - 5 players
Outcome - Escaped
Time Elapsed - 2 hours 40 minutes
Stars Obtained - 4 stars
Hints Used - 3
Overall Thoughts
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. A really unique element to this game is that you can choose the order in which you progress through the game.
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.
Final Review
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
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