Victorian Masterminds

Sherlock Holmes is dead, London's top detective is out of the picture, and you and your fellow villains intend to make the most of it. In Victorian Masterminds you send henchmen to cities across an unprotected Europe, collect materials for your steampunk contraptions, wreck buildings and complete missions, while the Secret Service trails your path of destruction. Each contraption is unique, so everyone plays a little differently. Each turn you place one of your five agent tokens face down on one of five action spaces; once three tokens sit on a space, they flip and resolve. It is a worker-placement game with bluffing, asymmetry and a sudden-death ending. Two to four players, around an hour.