Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Players move from inn to inn, collecting characters to complete the 5 chapters of a Dickens novel. The rules state that the designer Mary Danby is a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Players move from inn to inn, collecting characters to complete the 5 chapters of a Dickens novel. The rules state that the designer Mary Danby is a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Past Times is a chain store of cod repro English history, with games usually produced for them by Oxford Games, but this is a game they've published themselves and the rules are in English, French and Japanese!