I’m in a love-hate relationship with Themeborne’s Escape series of board games

"Mmmm. Sexy cardboard" are some words you don’t really want to be discovered muttering to yourself over the recycling bins at seven in the morning when the trucks turn up, but are nonetheless very familiar to anyone with a tabletop game habit. I look up the rules of, probably, less than half of the games I buy. This feels like buying a videogame because of the art style, but I definitely do this too, and if I’m not supposed to trust my eyes over my brain then why are they at the front of my head, eh? The point is: Themeborne’s game are bloody gorgeous, and I keep buying them, and then ending up mildly disappointed at what they’re actually like to play.