The Best Mystery and Immersive Story Subscription Boxes

If you’re the kind of person that loves a good mystery these subscription boxes bring the thrill of murder mysteries, escape rooms, and more, right into your living room, month after month.

While mystery games are popular for good reason, a much more inventive way of tackling such challenges is through the use of a subscription box service so you get a new mystery every month. With dozens of different services out there, we’ve narrowed things down to the six best.

Now, we appreciate that not everyone has as much free time as they’d like. So, we’ve looked at mystery subscription boxes that work best in one hit, as well as mysteries that work over many months by unfolding a small part of the story every month. There’s room too for particularly tricky challenges, as well as sets that can be played by the whole family. Whatever your interests, there’s a challenge here that you’re going to love.

Here’s a look at some of our favorite mystery and immersive story subscription boxes.

Best For A Six Month Run: Hunt A Killer ($25 per month)

Laid out kind of like a TV show—in that it has seasons of six episodes/boxes spread out over 6 months—Hunt A Killer lures you in with the unnerving idea of a serial killer delivering a package to your door each month. Yup, this isn’t for family consumption.

Each month, you’re sent a box of clues and it’s down to you to figure out what the heck is going on. There’s evidence, statements to read over, as well as more obvious clues to piece together. The first month also includes a detective’s notebook and you’re going to need it to write down what your ideas are.

Hunt A Killer is based around a fictional town, right down to offering up an authentic yearbook, and providing you with hand-crafted police records and newspaper clippings. It’s an impressively immersive world with a private Facebook group enabling you to group up together and discuss what could be going on.

Best Self Contained One Hit: Escape The Crate ($30 every 2 months)

Not all mystery subscription boxes have a bloodthirsty murderous theme to them. Escape The Crate is one such example. It’s an escape room in a box, basically. Each month, you and a group of friends can work together to solve riddles, puzzles, and codes, all in a bid to escape the virtual room within the box. Every other month, you’re provided with a different theme from science fiction style alien escapades to defusing time bombs or escaping from a pirate ship.

Because of the nature of the adventure, it works quite well with younger players so this is ideal for a family with young teens who are keen to solve puzzles together. Each session only takes about an hour and a half but it’s the perfect way to enjoy family time away from the games console or TV.

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