The Crew surprised me

Last week, I bought The Crew on a whim. I had heard good things online about it and the premise seemed cool but fairly simple.

I then took it home and tried playing it with my wife and teen kids. It was a disaster. I was stumbling through the rules and I think I didn’t quite get how the comms or distress signal worked. Kids got bored quick. It was just a mess.

Then yesterday, we had a couple over for a BBQ and me and my wife sat down to play The Crew again with them. We had time to feel out the rules and gameplay together. By the time we got to mission #2 we were hooked! Everything just clicked into place. The game is a lot like a puzzle. Every person needs to be dialed in or it doesn’t work. We played for 3 hours straight and left it at mission #7 after like 6 attempts at mission #6.

Goes to show - sometimes it takes the right people at the right time to make you fall in love with a game.