We waited too long to try this!
We really hesitated on whether or not to try this. I mean, it's $30 a month for a subscription- and often quite a bit more to buy complete kits/sets- and you have no idea what you'll be getting or whether you will like it. Then by a stroke of luck, one of my coworkers told me that she had been getting these for a while and thought it would be something I would enjoy. She lent me her most recent set and from that moment, we were hooked! We ended up buying several different types of (for lack of a better word) games so we could try a variety of difficulty levels and some of the supernatural ones. I completely understand why they cost what they do- the creators are so innovative and thorough- including having real phone numbers from the locations in the set, creating complete websites and fake social media accounts for their victims and suspects, building complete sets for their pictures that seem truly authentic, sending tangible items to use in your sleuthing and devising amazing pieces of evidence that are often more than they seem. So far, we haven't had any that are so easy that we feel they're not worth what we paid for them. If you are on the fence about subscribing, I highly recommend at least buying a box set or premium kit and giving it a shot.