Hunt A Killer - Immersive Murder Mystery Subscription Experience

I bought this as aift and I couldn't be more pleased with this subscription. While only on the 4th "episode", the recipient has reported that she is having a blast with this fantastic interactive mystery "game". The attention to detail that the designers have given is amazing!! It is obvious that great care when into crafting the storyline and "evidence". The developers have really created a quite captivating little world. It is user-friendly and fun! She really looks forward to receiving each installment. As far as my experience goes, this purchase was painless. No problems with payment, shipping, or customer service to report. This is, hands-down, the coolest gift I've given in recent years and has proven to be the perfect answer to the question "What do you get for the person who has everything?". I highly recommend checking it out and am considering purchasing more. Bottom line - fantastic choice for anyone who enjoys 1 or more of the following: game nights, puzzles, logic problems, crime or murder/mystery shows, and HAVING FUN!

We really enjoy this company and their products. First, if you aren't familar, the idea is each season is 6 "episodes", and you get one episode per month. The premise is that a small town investigator doesn't have the resources to solve a murder, and they are enlisting your help (you being a more seasoned investigator). If you actually order through the Hunt a Killer website, you can expedite your boxes if you want to go through them faster. The Hunt a Killer website also has other seasons, entire box sets, and shorter non-subscription premiums of all kinds if you prefer harder mysteries, or science fiction, or paranormal, or family-friendly, etc. Many of the episodes have a goal of eliminating a suspect or two, but you shouldn't stop just at that. The people who finish each episode in 20 minutes must not be reading everything and finding all the clues. You should take notes and make timelines, as you will fill in time gaps and catch characters in lies or misinformation later as more evidence comes in with interviews and phone records, etc. You are piecing together a crime story with many characters, events, timelines, and items. The "small town investigator" sends you bagged evidence, interviews, autopsy reports, drug test results, maps, newspaper clippings, crime scene pictures, etc each month as they find them. There are website links to follow with surveillance footage, or recorded audio, or social media postings from the suspects, or high school discipline records. There are clues hidden in everything they send. There are ciphers to figure out. The attention to detail is unbelievable. Additionally, I can't relate to the people who said their customer service was bad. I emailed their website and had a response in a day. I posted a question in their Facebook group and was answered by one of their reps in less than one hour. Overall, it usually takes the two of us 90 minutes per episode (or box). I think $30 is reasonable for 90 minutes of entertainment for two people. We would spend that much or more if we went out somewhere for our entertainment instead. We recently bought The Woods box set of 5 episodes for $140 and the first box took us almost 3 hours! There were so many layers to it. It was so fun though because it was just like being in a horror movie (it was a paranormal story about witches summoning spirits). Overall, you get out of it what you put into it. If you are one dimensional and don't piece all aspects of the story together and only focus on eliminating one suspect, then you're not going to like it and you will sell the whole experience short. If you like challenging yourself and looking at all the angles, details, and storylines, you will love it too. If you are considering it, I would recommend joining their official Facebook group. The reps will answer any questions and you can see how other people like it.

Highly recommend ordering through the Hunt A Killer's main website and NOT through Amazon. My first and current subscription is through Amazon and when I had questions regarding the next boxes arrival Amazon directed me to HAK and HAK had no record of my order and therefore were unable to help me. You're also unable to login to the HAK website once you receive your first episode box (again because HAK doesn't recognize the Amazon subscription) which I'm told gives you access to be able to order your next box sooner (this would be a nice option) Also my second box was missing three items and again Amazon directed me to HAK and HAK stated that they would only contact me if there was an issue otherwise the missing items would arrive in 2-3 days; it's now been 6 days and I've not received the items in the mail or an email back from HAK stating they needed more info from me. :( I'm really hoping the arrival of the next boxes goes more smoothly and that I get a complete boxes the first time around so I don't have to go through the hassle of trying to contact someone again. The concept of the game it's self is great and my friends and I are enjoying it so far. I would definitely recommend that you to purchase and play this interactive murder mystery game, but when you do just be sure to purchase it direct from HAK.

This game is a lot of fun. Our kids love playing detective and really get into it. Each box has high quality materials and the online component is done very well. DON"T SUBSCRIBE THROUGH AMAZON! Amazon's subscription service is horribly broken. Every time you ship an order to a different address or person through your account, the AMAZON subscription software automatically thinks that this is a new subscription and will start sending you box 1 again. Or a maybe a different previous box. As a result, we spent a lot of time and many emails with Hunt A Killer's customer service having them send us the correct boxes. And now we have three episode 1s, two episode 2s etc... Do yourself and the poor customer service people a favor and just subscribe through the Hunt A Killer site directly. Amazon knows about their subscription issues but is not able to fix it.