The Light in the Mist Review
We review The Light in the Mist, a puzzle style game published by Post Curious. Billing itself as a Tarot Puzzletale, The Light in the Mist challenges you to find your missing friend.
Your friend has gone missing. She’s been avoiding you for a while now, taking long walks through the misty haunted woods behind the old witch’s house every day. Now that she’s gone, are you brave enough to follow her path and explore the woods? Armed only with the things your friend left behind, her backpack, journal, and a pack of tarot cards, you stand before the witch’s door resolved to find your friend at any cost. But neither of you knows how high that cost will be…
The Light in the Mist is a storytelling puzzle game for 1-4 players created by Rita Orlov and Jack Fallows. Referring to itself as a “Tarot Puzzletale” it uses a complete tarot deck as the main game structure to lead you through a mystery.
In the box you’ll find an instruction booklet, two sealed solution packets that each have a backpack image on one side and journal image on the other, and a full tarot card deck in a tuckbox. Like a traditional tarot deck, there are 22 major arcana cards (The Fool, The Lovers, Death, etc.) and 56 minor arcana cards (the four suits, 1-10 plus court cards). The cards lead you on a journey through the misty enchanted forest. Each of the major arcana cards is a puzzle, and as you find the solutions you uncover memories from your friend that give you hints as to what led to her disappearance. Once you’ve completed all 22 of these puzzles, you should have the information you need to open up and complete the solution packet and rescue your friend.
The instruction booklet starts with the background story; has a ‘Wisdom’ section with guidance for each of the cards and a ‘Vision’ section with numerically coded information that you gain as you solve puzzles; has a guide to reading the tarot for your own pleasure; and then has a solution index and card reference chart.
To solve a puzzle you
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