Witchery Spell

This is still one of our favorite play-at-home mystery boxes of all time (and we play as many as we can get our hands on). Nice props, good puzzles, and an interesting story. Highly recommended.

Witchery Spell is one of those games. You know the ones I mean… Everybody is talking about them. If the at-home escape room industry had a ‘game of the year’ award, Witchery Spell would probably be up for nomination in every category there is. Which is why I’m surprised to be writing that I don’t know if it quite lived up to the hype. But don’t get me wrong – it was still a brilliant game. But that’s the problem with hype, isn’t it? So all hype aside, we’re going to discuss the game’s merits with one cautionary note: Don’t me like me and place Witchery Spell on a (literal) pedestal in your office and wait over a year to play it because you were too worried about ‘wasting it’ on a regular board game night. Just play it now! You won’t regret it. Solve the Puzzles, Save the Witches Dark Park have created a really well rounded boxed game that is equal parts surprising and delightful in Witchery Spell. At it’s core, Witchery Spell is a story about a group of witches being hunted by a modern day witchfinder organisation. One of their party had recently turned 23, which is the age their original protection spell wore off. Before they’re all found and killed, they turn to you for help. You see- there’s another protection ritual that they desperately need in order to evade detection, but apparently witches can’t actually perform this type of magic themselves. How inconvenient! What follows is a non-linear style game to figure out a number of things: What happened to the missing witch? And, How we could perform the ritual ourselves? To help you out, you’ve got a big cardboard box full of stuff, and the internet. This is a partial review - full review is available on The Escape Roomer https://theescaperoomer.com/witchery-spell-review/