by Lucardo Manchester (website)
Virginia House, 5-7 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AD
2-4 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
Player review
Review by stairs expert
Fun collection game set across two areas in a small spaceship (felt more like an escape pod than a starcruiser).
Although only a physically small space, this room would actually benefit a larger team in some ways, since every puzzle is independent and can be solved in parallel - there's no linear progression or meta puzzle - it's a successive stream of "find a puzzle, solve the puzzle, get the fuel rod, move onto the next", with no dependency or connections between them. Our team of two collected 29 fuel rods (out of, I think, 42 available?) in the hour allotted - and that was pretty much working non-stop.
Puzzles encompassed the usual variety of observation/dexterity/deduction, etc. and were all fun to solve. There were no individual "Wow!" moments that really got the heart racing, but it was more a constant trickle of dopamine as each new puzzle fell every few minutes. A team of 4 or 5 would probably get all the fuel rods pretty easily, since they'd simple have double the work rate, and there's no opportunity for bottlenecks.
No tech issues experienced, and we didn't receive any hints, so can't really comment on that, but our GM was friendly enough in the introduction, so no complaints!