Asmodee Unexpected games, The Initiative, Board Game, 1-4 Players, Ages 8+, 30-60 Minutes Playing Time

I got this for my partner for Xmas and it was a brilliant decision. We love games and I went with this one because it had great reviews and was a co-op. It has so many nice touch well thought out surprise details!! I don't want to go into too much detail on that because it's been great to come across them and see the level of commitment the designers had for this game.For game play it's a great mix between a standard board play and puzzle solving. Good mix in terms of puzzles with number based and letter based puzzles. The puzzles provide a challenge but not so much so that it's not a fun time for everyone. I would say more for teenagers and upwards.Go out and get it quick!!

Easy to pick up the basics, challenge to think through the cooperative components and best played by the full number of players (to ensure all character attributes available). Nevertheless, very playable by a smaller group - we’re enjoying it!

We haven't completed the campaign yet but so far it has been really enjoyable.Some may find aspects of it repetitive but trying to find the clues to complete the new mission puzzle has kept the group interested.We have 5 people so we have just rotated 2 people playing together which has worked fine as each game takes only about 30 minutes to play anyway.

The game its self works on a very quick to learn mechanism, which is great as you to start player very quickly, the story beside the game is good but we really enjoyed the puzzles challenging but not frustrating, just enough in my mind to keep me interested, hoping for more games like this from them going forward