Hunt A Killer: Dead Below Deck Game

I love these games. This is not my favorite one however. Quite a bit of it is online and I find it easier to comprehend writing and search for clues if I can physically hold paper rather than read online documents. If you are a fan of these games, this one is worth getting. If you are starting out, I’d recommend a different hunt a killer game first :)

Game was fine, but one of the physical clues provided (a major clue) was the wrong color, which really threw us off track. Very frustrating to find out we had everything else right, but this one clue messed us up.

We did this as a couple for date night and had so much fun! Really great how everything was compiled and put together. We plan to share it amongst our circle of friends and have everyone keep track of how long it takes them to complete.

I want to give a Zero!!!! I’m unhappy about this one. I tried out “dive bar” and it was so good. However, this one it’s pretty much all online!!! It was no fun when you are playing with people and trying to enjoy the time. You have to be on your phone the whole time! I would had liked to have all the evidence on hand! Def did not enjoy this one at all.

It says to download an app and provides a QR code. When you scan the QR it says app unavailable. You can solve it without the clues on the app (without guessing). Wouldn’t recommend.

loved the concept of this one and the variety of evidence items that came with it, BUT I think that the morse code and symbols were overkill. they just added more time to the game and turned out to not be essential in solving the mystery, although they were helpful. it took us double the estimated time to finish the game. with all that said, I would still recommend buying the game and will for sure be purchasing more HAK boxes. being a detective is fun

You can only play once?

I've done three of these now, and can say that the codebreaking in this is just the right balance of difficult and reasonable. HOWEVER, the game makes the inexplicable decision to add a completely unrelated crime in which is the sole purposes of those codes, which took three hours. As far as solving the actual murder, the object of the game, we were able to figure it out within 15 minutes of looking at the 'digital drive' on the app. So, if you're looking for a murder mystery, this game is not good. If you're looking to have a decent time cracking irrelevant codes, this is the game for you!

My family and I are huge murder mystery lovers, so I bought this game for family night. It took us 3 hours to finish! The clues were so far fetched and the killer made no sense to us. They also added random crimes to the characters that was unnecessary. After playing we quickly wished we had the money and time wasted back. Sadly we don't have a Time Machine to get the time back. Get this game if you like being disappointed.

This game is surprisingly fun but it’s a 1 time game you can only play it once. If I had known that prior I wouldn’t have spent 31$ for it. It’s good to re gift possibly but if you try and play it again it would useless because you already cracked the code. I do find the app that needs to be downloaded to play it is a bit annoying because I don’t like digital games hence why we buy BOARD GAMES. All in all if you want a fun game for 1 night then I guess it’s worth it but it’s a hard no for me.

Nope. Hated it! I am a HAK subscriber and an avid "detective" but this box was horrible. There was too much information that needed to be gleaned from very little actual evidence provided. I had the murderer figured out within the first 30 minutes of playing but wanted to finish everything to make sure I was correct. There were lots of red herrings and too much open ended, not solidified "evidence" that I just gave up.

Story was very boring. There were no crime scene pictures, no real connect the dot moments that were remotely exciting.

This was a fun game! We played it for the first time with only 2 players. It came with so many clues that it was a bit messy. It is also VERY time consuming. You do have to download an app which also gave us more clues but made it last longer 😭

Bought this last minute because we wanted a competition murder mystery game for five people. NOWHERE in the Target add does it say ANYTHING about having to download an app to play the game. On the box at the store there is a small block that states app download is required, but not very noticable. It took our group of four over six hours and the creation of a time line to solve the murder and it was fun, but took a little too long. The material supplied by the app was very important to solving. The makers put a lot of money into the production and the material in the box and on-line show that and that quality made the game much more enjoyable. A fun activity for a large group. BUT, plan on more than 90 minutes and let people know that you need an app in order to play.

Such high quality and doesn’t compare to the other ones like this on the market I really look forward to playing

My friends and I have been playing Case Files, and after running those dry we expanded to these. We GREATLY prefer this series! First, we liked that it doesn’t “hold your hand”, like other games do. It’s all self guided. The online/app sources are really cool too, with video witness statements and PDF files as evidence. Because of this, it felt a bit more challenging. The other types of games like this tend to be more repetitive, using the same kinds of evidence and similar plotlines and challenge levels to them. I can understand the price point on the larger box sets, and we will be investing them later. Just a warning though, we spent nearly an HOUR on the first puzzle, which was a tin box with a combination lock. After getting nearly every possible combo wrong, we started putting in random combos until it opened. Using the online answer sheet we realized our lock was screwed up, because the real answer was the very first one we tried, and proceeded to try multiple times. So that was frustrating, and the only reason I’m not giving it a perfect 5 stars. Other than that, we’re really excited to dip our toes into more of this game series!

The mystery isn’t solvable without downloading the app. And even with the app it felt like there were poorly planned clues. The solution felt like a huge jump in logic and there was no real feeling of accomplishment.

Loved this case and highly recommend

We had four Syracuse University graduates play this game and we could not understand the relevance of the lizard smuggling ring to this game. This game literally has no point, and we would give this a 0/10. My hope for humanity has diminished substantially. This is three hours of my life I can never get back.

We are avid mystery box people and this was honestly so painfully awful. it would have been great if they were clear MOST OF THE EVIDENCE WAS ONLINE!!! like if i bought the box for $25 I would think everything would be.. in the box???? Now I have this dumb app and a broken spirit. the detective in my soul has died. thx