Spy x Family: Mission for Peanuts Review
We reivew Spy X Family, a card game based on the tv show of the same name. Spy X Family is a Love Letter style game where players are secretly trying to get the three main cards in their hand.
Not familiar with the anime series Spy x Family? Well, you should seek it out. It’s a wholesome story about a family that learns to embrace their strengths together. Sure, there’s some violence and some unfortunate anime tropes that sneak in on occasion, but daughter Anya Forger’s adorable outbursts and telepathic powers are the glue that holds it all together.
It’s great to see the show getting a card game. It has been given the Love Letter treatment and quite a lot of the thematic elements tie in nicely with the system’s mechanisms. It plays from three to five players, is designed by Anthony Thorp, and was provided to us by publisher Kess. Is there enough here to entice those unfamiliar with the anime?
If you’re familiar with Love Letter this is an easy teach. Players try to gain all three family members—Loid the Spy, Yor the Assassin, and Anya the Telepath. Each player begins with two cards and chooses one as their role. There are eight roles in total, each featuring a character from the anime. The prized card is the Spy as there is only one of them in the deck. Players work to discover this card either by drawing or trading cards with others.
On their turn, players draw a card and choose from one of two actions. They either replace their current role with a new role and trigger the card’s Deploy action, or they discard a card to use its Assist action. Deploy actions can be either active or passive. Anya, for instance, has a Deploy passive that prevents the player from being eliminated by the Assassin. The Seer’s Assist
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