Les Secrets de Warden Keene (FR)

*French version

Les Secrets de Warden Keene (FR) brings you to a cemetery on a hill in Illinois in 1925, where every gravestone, every date, and every inscription may hide a forgotten truth. In this puzzle game, you work through 11 mysteries inspired by the final traces left behind by the former residents of Spoon River. There are no points to chase, no stressful countdown, and no flashy win condition: the real pleasure comes from observing, connecting clues, making deductions, and finally understanding what these graves still have to say.

At the heart of the experience is the careful reading of the cemetery itself and the notebook left behind by Warden Keene. Epitaphs become clues, dates start to matter, and relationships between the deceased gradually come into focus. This cooperative game leans into a mysterious and nostalgic mood rather than anything grim, with cases that invite players to pause on every detail and talk through every theory. It is the kind of game that turns an ordinary table into a quiet, immersive, and remarkably clever investigation.

You will enjoy Les Secrets de Warden Keene if you love thinking things through together, spotting tiny details, building logical links, and savouring that moment when everything finally clicks. You will likely enjoy this deduction game if you want a narrative experience for solo play or a small group that focuses on observation and the satisfaction of solving rather than competition.

An interesting detail: Spoon River is built around the idea of stories told by the dead, and the designers explicitly connect that spirit to Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. That literary thread gives the game an uncommon identity, somewhere between puzzle solving, storytelling, and the quiet exploration of a place filled with memory.

The game is designed by Paolo Mori and Silvano Sorrentino. Paolo Mori is also known for Ethnos, Libertalia, Blitzkrieg!, and Captain Flip, while Silvano Sorrentino is well known for work including the Deckscape series. Artist Florian Belmonte gives the cemetery a richly detailed visual presence, with a subdued atmosphere that beautifully supports this narrative game built around observation.

BOX CONTENTS
1 box
36 tiles
1 cardboard gate
1 notebook
2 envelopes
1 letter
3 small papers
1 map
1 wooden candle token
7 wooden crow tokens

Number of players: 1 to 4
Playing time: 20 to 240 minutes
Age: 10+