Format: Two physical kits
Price: S$27.99 per kit if bought separately; S$49.26 if bought as a set (Shopee prices)
Gameplay duration: As long as you need; we took just over an hour
This delightful kit-based game is meant to be played in real time by two players (or two teams) communicating via video/audio/text… but with some twists.
It’s hard to talk about this game without spoiling some of its most fun aspects, so I’ll just say that it truly makes the most of its medium. It’s also, well, a very SCRAP sort of game, with cute/camp humour, clever structural moves, an exciting endgame… and admittedly some puzzles that aren’t necessarily very thematic, even though the overall puzzle structure is great.
The narrative is a bit thinner than usual for SCRAP, but gets the job done. Like SCRAP’s Escape from the Lockdown series, there’s also a bit of poignancy coming from the fact that you’re playing this under socially-distanced, travel-curbed circumstances (especially if you’re in Singapore and have friends overseas, in countries such as Japan…).
The price might seem steep for a physical kit game, but if you think about it as delivering one to two hours of enjoyable puzzling, you should find it worthwhile. RECOMMENDED as a fun and unique puzzle experience that builds connections even when meeting in person isn’t possible.
SCRAP has the two-kit set for sale on Amazon US, in its Japanese webstore, and on Shopee; as well as single kits sold separately on the latter two sites. So you can order e.g. just the South half, and a friend in Japan can order the North half.
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