Unsolved Case FilesAshcroft, Harmony - Cold Case Murder Mystery Game - Can You Solve The Crime? Who Killed Harmony? For Ages 14 and up

The game itself is great! However my internal packaging had been apparently cut open because there was a huge slice through the evidence bag and through the folder itself. I only gave a bad review because I either have to drive to a ups pickup (which is nowhere close to my location) or just eat the damaged product.Edit: after leaving this review the seller actually reached out to me and offered a full refund for the damaged product. Highly recommend!

very fun to do ! Great quality ! Great for the family !

Great game! I love it so much. It wasn’t that difficult to understand. It took us an hour to finish. We got to play the part and enjoy with friends. I will have to get more of these.

I did this and it was really fun. My friends and I are forensic science majors so this took us less than two hours. It may take longer for you or shorter. We personally found it a bit boring but that may be because of the case we did. It was fun to do as a group and worth the money :)

I just got into detective style gaming at the start of the year and have been seeking a realistic experience. I've looked into all the subscription boxes like Hunt a Killer, but having seen videos, while they are made very well, they are more puzzle solving in the escape room sense than actually feeling like solving a crime.The Detective board game is a great game in itself but I found this one to be much more immersive and realistic. The quality of the components are the best I've seen and the presentation makes you feel like you've been handed an actual case file (minus the gore) from a police department. Newspaper articles feel like they are from a newspaper, photos are actual real photo quality, reports appear as if they could be legitimate documents.Everything you need to solve the case is included, which to me is better than having to spread it out over 5 to 6 months compared to subscription boxes which can add up in costs pretty quickly. I think the costs of these are a pretty good deal for the contents and the experience.It took me about a week to solve, sitting for a few hours each day to revisit things to see what I missed. Overall I think they did a great job with making it difficult in the sense that you feel like everyone could be the killer. The moment I discovered something felt great and made me want to dig in even more to keep that feeling going. I love that they have the sealed content with it so that just when you think you've seen everything, they give you a bit more. It makes it feel like your persistence has paid off.Ok, so now for the negatives. After combing through everything like a good detective, I discovered a number of typos and inconsistencies. While for the most part none of these are game breaking, one could throw off your logic and mislead you, however I still was able to solve the objective relating to it. The other downside is the amount of detective work that I put into it, such as creating a time table of every event that occurred, where people were, how much distance between locations, how far could someone travel on foot versus in a vehicle, analyzing every statement from suspect to witnesses for accuracy and such. I wanted it to be much more than it was and in the end a lot of that time was wasted effort as it was much more simplistic than I had thought. I enjoyed that type of work but I wish it had much more of a pay off.Overall I would definitely recommend it as it's the best I've experienced so far. I'm also open to suggestions from other shoppers of similar experiences. I hope these people continue making these cases and making improvements. I think some proof readers would help avoid the typos. I would love to have more in depth analysis of the cases, such as the efforts that I have mentioned, pay off. Maybe instead of the 3 objectives, have smaller clues to piece together that eventually lead to solving an objective. I'd also love to see these go more in line with some of the subscription boxes as far as including physical items involved in the case or perhaps just more emphasis on items in general even if in photographs, like the murder weapon, items found at the scene or elsewhere. Perhaps even an online component like in Detective where you can access the police database to corroborate suspect/witness statements like looking up phone records, vehicle registration, news articles, websites, etc. In general just more of everything. Even if these were deluxe cases at a premium I'd still purchase them just for the immersion.I'm not disappointed with my purchase at all and glad to have ordered the second one in advance based only on the quality of what the first had. I can't wait to see what they come up with next!

This game was so much fun! The attention to detail in the files and the quality of the game was perfect! The creators definitely made this with lots of love. It was challenging but it’s an unsolved mystery case so I expected it to be. I would say it was the same amount of difficulty you would expect in an escape room. It does have hints if needed and I did use them but that just makes me want to buy another one so I can solve without the hints! I can’t wait to buy the next case to share with my family as this game is perfect for all ages who can read or at least able to solve problems.

I don’t normally write reviews, but I just finished “solving this case” and am so satisfied with it, I had to let others know. I ordered this awhile back and once I received it my initial reaction was impressed. It came in an evidence bag all sealed up and looking like actual crime evidence (besides the obvious back explaining the game and barcode etc.)Opening it up there is a case folder filed with all sorts of evidence. From photos of the victim and location, autopsy report, person of interest files filled with witness testimonies, and interrogation, a map of crime possible suspects locations etc.Right away I will say this is not what I initially expected it to be, which is great! I had originally thought it wasn’t going to actually solving a case with evidence but more of a “escape room “ game where you had to find a hidden image like I-Spy or do a puzzle or math problem to figure out the next clue. But I was pleasantly surprised to find out I was wrong. I had gone through all the evidence and at first sat there and thought “ok what the heck do I do now?!”You had to really look at EVERYTHING and piece together clues and statements to find out everything.Advice is only focus on one objective at a time. Your first objective is written on the inside of the case file. Don’t worry about anything else until you get that solved.For me personally once I figured out the first objective I was able to solve the others one pretty much back to back. Though it might be because I had an early suspicion that I kept in my mind and certain ideas I kept thinking “had to be involved “.All and all it took me only a few hours and that was mostly me just going through all the paper work. But I will say it was so much fun and so satisfying to see when I was correct after verifying each objective! The only complaints I have is not being able to play it all over again! (Though I do plan on having my fiancé and a family member try out on their own too if I can keep from gushing about how I solved the case lol)Also another note. When I had tried to go to the url link indicated on the folder to verify my first objective, it wouldn’t work. If you go to the unsolved case files website, click on your case file and scroll all the way down to “answers” link and click that, then you can click on whichever objective you are trying to verify (don’t worry there are no spoilers in the answers if you go in order)Would definitely recommend to any true crime or mystery fan.