Game Review: Exit The Game: The Gate Between Worlds by Kosmos

Exit The Game: The Gate Between Worlds designed by Inka & Markus Brand and Ralph Querfurth and published by Kosmos

In the latest innovation for an Exit The Game game, The Gate Between Worlds features only one riddle card! The typical game has a deck of riddle cards that are drawn one by one as the game goes on. This game uses small posters that have clues and puzzles on them. There's still plenty of cutting and writing to do, just on the posters, not on the cards. Some other bits like rubber bands are part of fun, creative puzzles. The decoder disk is the titular gate between worlds and stands up!

Components in the game

The theme of the game has the players journeying through a gate much like the Stargate to many fantastic worlds. The goal is to get back home through the usual method of solving a variety of puzzles, rotate the gate, and find the codes that unlock one of the new worlds (i.e. one of the posters). The game includes a time element but as usual we ignored that in favor of enjoying solving the puzzles without the stress of rushing through game. That was good because we took a two-week hiatus between play sessions! We remembered enough that restarting was not hard.

The puzzles were fun and challenging. Most of them are more mechanical or manipulative than in other games, where there's a lot of decoding. The posters had multiple uses with little details that came in handy later in the play. The game makes good use of the standing solution wheel. As usual (for us), one of the puzzles didn't make sense and we had to use the hint cards. But overall, it was engaging and not hard to come up with the ideas that the game creators had in mind.

This game was another winner from the series. We are amazed that the makers are able to come up with new and creative puzzles.

Highly recommended.