ECHOES THE COCKTAIL Is A Fun Audio Mystery

Ravensburger sent me a copy of Echoes: The Cocktail to review and I am so glad they did. Echoes is a series of short audio mystery games to solve using an accompanying app.

The Cocktail takes you through a prohibition era mob story where you have to figure out who killed your informant and figure out the true identity of the mob boss. Chapter cards start a scene and then each chapter contains three items to complete it. You use the app to scan each card to hear a snippet of audio, then you will scan the chapter and the items in the order you think they go in. The app will tell you if you are right or wrong and if you’re right, you’ll hear the complete scene. Once you do this for all the chapters you’ll need to get the chapters in the correct order to unlock the whole story.

It had some challenge to it, but I managed to finish playing in about 40 minutes. That being said, the quality of the game is great, I was especially impressed at the audio recordings that had a full voice cast, music, and sound effects. Just a really well made game. The drawback is it has no replay value unless you forget things really easily. I started up a second game and all the cards were exactly the same. This would be a great game for something like a board game café, but as far as one to keep in your collection to play over and over, not so much. The good news is it only costs $10, I just wish that it had actually taken the full hour it said it would.

Overall, I had a lot of fun playing the game and it was well made, I just won’t be able to play it again. This game gets a 7/10 for being shorter than I wanted and not being able to be replayed.