Unlock!: Heroic Adventures

If there’s a theme to Unlock!’s Heroic Adventures box, it’s superb potential that just doesn’t quite come together. White Rabbit is clearly intended as the flagship game in the box, with an extended 90 min play time and the maximum difficulty rating, but in practice I found it just a bit too unclear and frustrating.

The usual deck of cards is supplemented by a small booklet. Although this provides additional puzzle components, its main purpose seems to be to divide the game into separate chapte...

The Scarlet Thread of Murder is an ambitious concept for a game - perhaps too much so for its own good. Unlock!’s Sherlock game does well at capturing a genuine feeling of investigating a murder mystery, but the result makes for a game that can leave players floundering.

Its central innovation is a system for discovering ‘locations’ - if you find a reason to go to a certain place, you can enter that place name into the app and it tells you which card to take. In addition, the usual Unlock! syst...

As a matter of policy, Unlock! box sets seem to each contain one game that's more tailored for younger players, in both theming and difficulty level; in the Heroic set, that game is Insert Coin.

It's themed for retro 80s arcade gaming, and that's reflected in the pixelated artwork, the bloopy soundtrack, and the style of puzzle. Unlock! games have moved quite far from from being a card system to being a hybrid card-digital system. Appropriately for the theme, Insert Coin doubles down on the app...