Shadows: Amsterdam

Should this hit the table?

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Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to frequently pay attention to others' actions, but cooperation is not a major focus.

Teach 2.6

Teaching signal

Replay 4.1

High replayability

Interaction 3.6

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.8

Deep strategy

Control 3.2

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to frequently pay attention to others' actions, but cooperation is not a major focus.

Replay value

Shadows: Amsterdam has a high replayability score due to its strong variability in gameplay, strategic depth, and adaptability to different player counts. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with the presence of expansions adding new content and gameplay elements. Players have room to improve their strategy over time, and the game scales well with different numbers of players. While it may not be the easiest game to learn, it strikes a good balance between easiness and depth.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Shadows: Amsterdam is 6.33, indicating a balanced mix of luck and strategy. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome, and players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

Amsterdam, present day. A crime has been committed, but the police investigation is going nowhere. An anonymous client has called your detective agency to investigate. However, your rivals are on the case as well, so there’s no time to waste. Your Intelligence Officer will guide your Detectives through the city, by sending pictures to communicate. Each image contains location intel ... for those who can understand. But you need to decode the messages faster than your rivals while avoiding the police! Explore the city to find three pieces of evidence, and deliver them to your client before the other team in order to receive payment — and win the game! The police don’t want you on the case, so you’d best stay out of their way! If they spot you sniffing around, they’ll put you behind bars, giving your rivals an easy victory. Shadows - Amsterdam is a real-time simultaneous competition between detective agencies, using pictures that contain intel to communicate within your own team. Player roles are asymmetrical: each Intelligence Officer tries to guide their own team around the board, and the Detectives try to understand their Intelligence Officer’s clues in a fast-paced race to victory.

Mechanism

5

Cooperative Game Deduction Modular Board Point to Point Movement Race

Family

4

Cities: Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Mechanism: Image Interpretation Theme: Anthropomorphic Animals Theme: Mystery / Crime

Type

2

Family Party

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