Victorian Masterminds (EN) Toys and Games

ORIGINAL GAME IN ENGLISH: Sherlock Holmes is dead! And with London's greatest detective out of the way, those with villainous minds decide to wreak as much terror as possible on the populace — and you are one of those dastardly no-goodniks! While Europe sits unprotected against Victorian Masterminds, you and other players send your henchmen to different cities to use their varied skills, collect materials for your steampunk-inspired contraptions, destroy buildings, and complete missions. At the same time, the Secret Service follows your path of destruction. Every contraption is unique and allows you to take different actions, leading to highly strategic, asymmetric gameplay. In more detail, during the game, players take turns turning one of their five agent tokens — Henchman, Machine, Saboteur, Pilot, Number 2 — face down on one of five action spaces. Once three tokens are in a space, those tokens are folded and activated, first in, first out, with each agent carrying their individual action in addition to anything that takes place in that space. When an evil mastermind completes their contraction or the secret service brings this villainy to a halt, the game ends and whoever generated the oldest points wins.