Crooks in Crisis

08/06/2022

We are villains. We are used to setbacks.
We don’t complain. We make cunning plans.

20/05/2022

We only have two weeks to the end of our Kickstarter. To celebrate here's a double helping of our game being played. It's just as devlishly good to watch as it is to play. Help us make a villain out of you and back our Kickstarter today! Link in the comments.

16/05/2022

“My milkshake makes me go p**p in the yard…” Takes the prize for the most satisfyingly infantile sentence I have ever wrote in all my live long days. By my book, any product that reaches those depths of absurdity deserves at least a look. Go check out our Kickstarter and help us hit our target! ☠️🖤☠️🖤

11/05/2022

The 1st week of profession polls from our Kickstarter has given us some great new profession cards. These beauties will only be available in Jetpack & Stolen Gold Editions, so make sure you sn**ch one of them from our Kickstarter page. Link in comments. 🖤💀🖤💀

04/05/2022

The reviews are in! Massive love to , Tabletop Tolson, , , and .

🖤☠️🖤☠️🖤

03/05/2022

It's ALLLIIIIIIVVVVVVEEEEEE!!!!!

Go grab yours now and sn**ch yourself an early discount.

A role-playing party game about villains struggling with modern life, set in group therapy for bad guys.

02/05/2022

Gareth has gone all Andy Bernard on us and has promised to get a villainous tattoo as decided by our followers if we get funded in 24 hours! We’ll post out an Instagram story to take suggestions when we go live, so look out for this image then! Then, if we get funded in 24 hours, we’ll put a story out to get votes on the best suggestion of villainous tattoo. Get thinking and get ready. KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES TOMORROW!

01/05/2022

We could BARELY wait to announce this. We are going to be running a daily social vote to help decide what profession cards go into Jetpack and Stolen Gold!

That means that YOU (yeah, you) will have an opportunity to influence the game content just by following our Instagram Stories! The polls will go out every day in our Insta Stories and will be a choice between two professions. The winning choice of each day will go into Jetpack and Stolen Gold, and we’ll be updating our Kickstarter constantly to declare winners!

Pretty fancypants, eh.

There’s only a couple of days left. So make sure you are set to be notified when we launch on Kickstarter so you can make sure you get to sn**ch Crooks in Crisis at the Early Bird Discount!

20/04/2022

MAY 3RD: Prepare to Storm

15/04/2022

Evil tweets, idiot babies and weaponized goldfish... Villain life ain’t easy. Assemble your allies and crush the struggles of bad guy life!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gcdbreeze/crooks-in-crisis-the-villains-party-game/

13/04/2022

Agnes loves print outs that sat Crooks in Crisis is 20 days away.

12/04/2022

Our game’s got more evil professions than and will make every time you play completely unique.

You’ll never know who you’ll end up as! Could a demonically possessed doula. Could be a pregnant robot. Whichever way it’ll make a great bad guy out of you.

09/04/2022

Chris, one of our play testers DOES NOT hold back. Tomorrow we’ll post the video and you’ll see. You’ll see.

09/04/2022

Modern bad guy problems.

08/04/2022

We all have a favourite villain, but who is Olivia’s?

08/04/2022

What’s better than a villain? A villain with an obsession.

What’s better than solving villain problems? Solving villain problems with ridiculous tools.

The thing cards combine those two concepts and create a gameplay mechanic that keeps the challenges fresh every time you play Crooks in Crisis.

Think you know how you’d kidnap a movie star? Well, how would you do it using a box of scented pens or a roller blading cow?

07/04/2022

Crooks in Crisis is just 26 days away from . We’re so excited to get the whole world tackling the problems of bad guy life, but we need your help to get us funded in one day! Share this in your story to spread the good word of these bad guys.

06/04/2022

Everyday villain problems.

06/04/2022

Crooks Problem Context: “My auntie keeps kissing my cheek. Time to use a bit of friendly karate…” Full video of the challenge tomorrow. 🥋

06/04/2022

In addition to the 138 million character combinations Crooks in Crisis has, we also have included a crazy amount of variation in the challenges.

The draw problem cards and write problem cards give players the headspace to think about their answers. The perform challenges keep the energy at a good level and the search problem cards get players out from the table and interacting with the space around them.

Then there are the Thing Cards. These are what make the variation in challenges go crazy! A lot of problem cards have challenges that require each player to randomly pick up a thing card and use it in their answers. So you might in just one round see crooked solutions to a villains problem including things like a tamagotchi, a hamster ball and a sewing machine!

The beauty of these thing cards is that you could literally play the same problem card 100 times over, and have to answer it in 100 completely different and equally ridiculous ways!

Apply that 3000 challenge combinations to the 138 million different character combinations. You’ve got a sum that makes my calculator do a pleasure moan every time I punch it in its number pad.

05/04/2022

MAKING AN INFINITELY RE-PLAYABLE GAME

Right from the early phases of creating Crooks in Crisis, we wanted to make the experience completely unique every time you play. That way each time you play, that instance becomes special in its own right.

To do this we created a gameplay dynamic that gets players to randomly pick a profession and trait card right at the start of the game. This makes the basis of their bad guy character for the game. Every time a player wins a round, they get to pick up a new trait card and add it to their character. This means that as the game goes on each player becomes a more evolved and eccentric character.

I’ve seen a lot of play test of this game and I CANNOT get enough of watching people play it. The characters people end up shaping is a big part of that. I’ve seen pregnant robots on the brink of tears, influencers posing in uncomfortable positions with shoes for hands and patronising lions with a sexy little underbite.

To make sure people of varying levels of confidence and extroversion have a good time, the trait cards always have a choice between two traits for the player to pick. So if, like me, some days you feel more introverted than others, this game will still allow you to engage with a character as much as you’re comfortable with.

Bottom line, no matter who you are, this game will always make a great bad guy out of you.

25/03/2022

If you were a villain, what would you have in your evil mansion?

22/03/2022

What will it be?
________ _________ _________

19/03/2022

It’s character building, hun.

16/03/2022

Villains + Everyday Problems = GOLD

11/03/2022

Can you guess the villainous professions from our manic artwork? https://crooksincrisis.com/

10/03/2022

How the idea behind our game came about. ☠️

09/03/2022

Behind the scenes of our instructions build.

08/03/2022

Some of our favourite femme fatales in honour of

06/03/2022

The Thing Cards in Crooks will give every game you play fresh and strange angles your villainy deserves.

No games will ever be the same.

05/03/2022

If, like me, you have a tendency to unhealthily obsess, you should give this a try.

04/03/2022

Gareth started the day taking us on an audio journey back to his childhood. All it took was handing him an elastic band. 🔊🔊🔊

03/03/2022

Hundreds of hand drawn illustrations have gone into the design of Crooks in Crisis. Here’s one design’s adorable little t**h on a journey from pencil, to screen and then print.

02/03/2022

How would you ruin a Christmas carol concert using a __________?

01/03/2022

Challenge #11: How would you sabotage a birthday party using only a ___________?

28/02/2022

The world’s 1st comedy game about villain life.

Coming soon to Kickstarter.

27/02/2022

Afflecks Manchester I’ve almost reached my last resort. Don’t test me! Hear this message.

26/02/2022

Fred Aldous, hear this! Your choice is mind boggling! Our demands are simple. Give us what we want or prepare for some real regrets.