Wanna see thing differently?

Happy New Year guys! 🎉 To kick off 2025, let me introduce you to Perspectives! We played through the original orange-box version in a single day as we enjoyed it so much. And now the blue box is here with 3 additional cases for any would-be detectives! 🕵️ This has quickly become our favorite detective game due to the way it works. Simple but quite brilliant! ☺️

Every case is split up into 4 acts, each with 10 large-format cards that you split between 2-6 players. The envelope 📂 of the Act gives you some background story and will also show you a question that you have to find the answer for. If you were to look over the 10 cards and think about things a little you could find the answer, however the difficult part is that you don’t have all the cards and you aren’t allowed to show them to the others.

And this is the brilliant part. 🧐 Players have to describe what they see and compare details, and discuss what they think might be important - and come up with all kinds of theories. When you really go into details you start to feel like a detective, and it’s awesome when you find some common elements on your cards that connect in an important way. 😁 It makes you engage more with the case than other typical detective games.

👉 When you think you know all the details you need, you check the other side of the envelope where you’ll find multiple questions to answer. You repeat this for the first 3 Acts, then the final 4th Act works a bit differently: you just lay out all 30 cards on the table and try to solve the final questions together.

💬 The main difference between the 🟧 Orange and 🟦 Blue boxes are that this new one has cases that are set in the past. We preferred the more modern cases from before, but these are quite clever too. On a somewhat negative note, while the art is generally nice, it isn’t always ideal for this type of game as you can miss some details. Not because you didn’t pay attention, but because some elements aren’t drawn precisely enough.

But overall if you are looking for a new detective game, Perspectives gets a resounding recommendation from us. 🙂 🎖️