2024Mathieu Aubert, Théo Rivière
- Videos
- 23
- Creators
- 9
2 - 4 players30 minMedium weight

2018Mathieu Aubert
Mainly reviews. Shadows: Amsterdam is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 23 reviews, 11 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 8 unboxings, and 6 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Amsterdam, present day. A crime has been committed, but the police investigation is going nowhere. An anonymous client has called your detective agency to investigate. However, your rivals are on the case as well, so there's no time to waste. Your Intelligence Officer will guide your Detectives through the city, by sending pictures to communicate. Each image contains location intel ... for those who can understand. But you need to decode the messages faster than your rivals while avoiding the police! Explore the city to find three pieces of evidence, and deliver them to your client before the other team in order to receive payment - and win the game! The police don't want you on the case, so you'd best stay out of their way! If they spot you sniffing around, they'll put you behind bars, giving your rivals an easy victory. Shadows - Amsterdam is a real-time simultaneous competition between detective agencies, using pictures that contain intel to communicate within your own team. Player roles are asymmetrical: each Intelligence Officer tries to guide their own team around the board, and the Detectives try to understand their Intelligence Officer's clues in a fast-paced race to victory.
Shadows: Amsterdam has 49 videos from 40 creators: 23 reviews, 11 how-to-play guides, 1 playthrough, 8 unboxings and 6 other videos. They date from 2018 to August 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "How to play Shadows Amsterdam in 3 Minutes" by JestaThaRogue, which runs 4 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Shadows: Amsterdam Review - with Tom Vasel" by The Dice Tower. 22 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Hunter & Cron: Let's Play mit Peat & Alex - Shadows: Amsterdam" by Hunter & Friends - Brettspiele.
If you like it, try Inori, Bag of Chips, Dobble Connect and 포켓몬 칩스 (Pokémon Chips), also by Mathieu Aubert. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2018.
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2024Mathieu Aubert, Théo Rivière
2 - 4 players30 minMedium weight
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2 - 5 players15 - 20 minLight weight
2023Mathieu Aubert, Denis Blanchot, Jacques Cottereau, Guillaume Gille-Naves, Igor Polouchine
2 - 8 players15 minLight weight
2023Mathieu Aubert, Théo Rivière
2 - 5 players15 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Amsterdam, present day. A crime has been committed, but the police investigation is going nowhere. An anonymous client has called your detective agency to investigate. However, your rivals are on the case as well, so there's no time to waste. Your Intelligence Officer will guide your Detectives through the city, by sending pictures to communicate. Each image contains location intel ... for those who can understand. But you need to decode the messages faster than your rivals while avoiding the police! Explore the city to find three pieces of evidence, and deliver them to your client before the other team in order to receive payment - and win the game! The police don't want you on the case, so you'd best stay out of their way! If they spot you sniffing around, they'll put you behind bars, giving your rivals an easy victory. Shadows - Amsterdam is a real-time simultaneous competition between detective agencies, using pictures that contain intel to communicate within your own team. Player roles are asymmetrical: each Intelligence Officer tries to guide their own team around the board, and the Detectives try to understand their Intelligence Officer's clues in a fast-paced race to victory.
Designer
Mathieu Aubert
Artist
M81 Studio
Publisher
Libellud
Categories
Mechanics