Complices

About this board game

Complices is a cooperative game for exactly two players, with each session taking about 25 minutes. Together, you must steal as many coins and treasures as possible while navigating a mansion filled with security lasers.

Communication is essential. Each player wears glasses with a red or blue color filter, and each filter prevents its wearer from seeing one type of laser. The player with the red glasses traces a path through the room with a marker, while the player with the blue glasses guides them around the obstacles.

You have just two minutes to recover as much loot as possible. Every coin collected is worth 1 point, but each laser hit costs 1 point, so clear instructions and careful movement are vital. After four rounds, collect enough coins to fill your hideout and you win the game.

• Players: 2
• Play time: approximately 25 minutes
• Rooms: 16 across four levels of difficulty
• Challenge: new laser shapes and mechanisms appear at each level

Complices turns a simple path-tracing task into a tense test of teamwork. One player must act on incomplete visual information while the other provides directions, creating a fast, unusual communication challenge under pressure.