TIME Stories Madame EXPANSION - Dive into 17th Century Versailles! Adventure Game, Cooperative Strategy Game for Kids & Adults, Ages 12+, 2-4 Players, 90 Min Playtime, Made by Space Cowboys

Everything about this is awful. This is the worst game I’ve ever played in my entire life. I couldn’t be more irritated at what was my favorite game series just a few hours ago. Good job Time Stories, you ruined it. You took something awesome and hit it with a van. Please, please do not spend money on this.

I love the Time Stories games. For this to be the last expansion of this series, it was a complete disappointment and waste of time. It explained NOTHING! Tedious and pointless. Very disappointing.

Played once. It was good. Not the best expansion, but solid. No faults.

There was a secret plot point one player had from the middle of the campaign. That never got fleshed out or answered. Feels like they just forgot about it.

The game is amasingI recived it in excellent conditions and at the expected time.

Awful, awful game! I love T.I.M.E Stories <3

Madame is the conclusion of the White Series of Time Stories games that's had nine installments since its release in 2015. Overall, the idea was wildly ambitious: create a base game that works with various decks of cards in a story-driven adventure game for four players. Already you are going to limit the audience a lot, most people aren't going to go for a game that requires four people and can only be played once, but with the rise of escape rooms and legacy games, it's become more of a viable option. Throughout the series, I wondered if this was building to a conclusion, or if they would just run the series out until it was no longer marketable before ending abruptly.But they did get to an ending, and it's Madame. The new mechanics in the game are really cool, and you have some clever puzzles sprinkled throughout the game that keep you guessing, but this is a real letdown after four years of devoted play. I was on board the moment I heard about Time Stories, and rushed out to get every expansion as it came out. There were highs and lows, as to be expected, but I was always entertained enough to get excited when the next part was announced. The stories teased out a larger narrative on occasion (a few expansions had no connection to the larger story arc, but were still fun), hinting at small decisions having large consequences somewhere down the road. Madame was supposed to close all the loose ends up, show us what we've been working toward every time we played and answer all the questions we had.I am talking more about the series as a whole rather than this particular expansion. Having finished, it's hard not to look back on all the time and money spent playing each chapter in anticipation of a grand finale. Sadly, Madame felt like a lot of aimless busywork. From the get-go we had no idea what we were supposed to be doing, and after solving the initial quest, there was no clear direction for the rest of the game. It's one of the longer playthroughs (for my group) in the series, but it was boring. By the end of it we were modifying the rules so we could finish it faster, which is not what I want to be doing when I play a game.At this point I really don't know if I want to start the Blue Series that's coming out later this year (maybe, who knows?). I'll probably hold off for a few months until reviews start coming in. There were a number of delays with every release, my advice: wait a little longer next time and give us a satisfying game.

My group has been playing TIME Stories since the very first release. We loved Asylum, the Marcy Case, Expedition Endurance, and Lumen Fidei. There were ups and downs in the series— but that was our expectation since each world is so different.That is why we are so disappointed in Madame. It offers a VERY unsatisfying ending to the current stretch of games. Especially for those of us who have played for years, and who agonized over choices in the earlier games (Elois or Syaans???), the utter failure to follow up on previous choices or to connect this game to others—despite it being billed as the “conclusion”—is a huge disappointment. I sincerely wish we had not bought this expansion at all. I will be trying to resell ASAP. Photo offered as proof that we do actually own the game... unfortunately!