La Boîte de Jeu - “Backstories: The Emerald Wedding Anniversary”
- Matthew Lui
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
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Company: La Boîte de Jeu
Game: Backstories: The Emerald Wedding Anniversary
Country: France 🇫🇷
Language: English
Type of Game: Tabletop Games 📬
Genre: Espionage, Thriller
Date Played: April 22, 2026
Difficulty (based on 2 players): 6/10
Size of Team: Unlimited (Recommend 1-6 ppl)
Time: Unlimited (Approx. 60 Mins.)
Price: $16.95
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As Agent Nyx, you have been tasked to infiltrate the Emerald Wedding Anniversary party of General Darcosa and steal a secret hard drive. Can you make the right choices and not blow your cover along the way?
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This game packs into a small rectangular card box, easy to bring on the go, with text, artwork and some perforated cards that obviously show off the game's mechanism. Inside, there are 148 cards in order and a folded instruction manual.
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This played like a point and click game, but entirely with cards. If you have any experience with puzzle card games, a quick skim of the rules is enough to get started. Beginning with the first card, the gameplay felt straightforward and intuitive.
As we progressed, the cards built panoramic scenes of the environment, introduced objectives, and provided items to use. The standout feature based on the series name was the “Backstories” mechanic, where perforated action cards such as “Search,” “Discuss,” or item cards were placed on the back of a location or character card. When flipped, a small window revealed the outcome of the action and often directed us to new cards. We also enjoyed the overlay cards played on our character when using certain items, like the spy glasses. Like most point and click games, your actions change the game's ending, which we found had good variation.
The game also included cutscenes with great artwork, presented in a comic style format, which added variety from the typical reading of the text. Some of these sequences played out like a “Choose Your Own Adventure,” requiring decisions that changed how things unfolded.
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We encountered only a couple of traditional puzzles with most of the game focused on figuring out what to do in each situation using the actions and items available. The game had a realistic tone to it with consequences to our actions. At times, people would either become suspicious of us or we would get hurt depending on how we chose to proceed. We ended up playing through the game twice because we died before completing the mission on the first attempt. In hindsight, there were clues along the way about what actions to take and what we should focus on.
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"The Emerald Wedding Anniversary" was a unique way of playing a point and click game using only cards. The art was fantastic, the story was engaging, the actions and consequences made sense and overall was an entertaining time to play. We played with two people which seemed like a good number. The game says it can play up to six people but that seems like it would be too much, with everyone crowded over the cards and trying to make decisions together. This would be great for people who enjoy point and click games, love to play the spy or couples who want a night in.
(If you do decide to try this game, please remember to let them know that you heard it from"ESCAPETHEROOMers"!)
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