Third Angel: The Department of Distractions

 First mentioned a couple of years ago, but still for sale at a bargain price of £18 including shipping to anywhere in the UK. Created by Arts Council Funded group, Third Angel, who are wrapping up their works in the summer, although the website and videos on it will remain until the end of 2023. They have just a few boxes left and once gone, will not be producing any more - the 13 videos on their website are an integral part of the experience and the box on its own loses too much context to be anything other than a curio.

Minor spoilers ahead - the experience (and it's far more of a narrative experience than a puzzle-packed game, there are it seems four key puzzles to obtain four numbers to unlock the bag you see in their photos) is intended to be played over five days, with a couple of things to do each day. You get some very smart sealed envelopes to be opened as directed by the videos, and the first one at least is intended to be written on. Given the limited time this will still be operation I've decided to go the whole hog and write, tear, deface, ruin and destroy whatever is needed -- I'm already predicting I will have to lose some components on a future day so can't be too precious about these.

No more spoilers - as a one-shot deal for me this looks like very good value for money as I'm a sucker for narrative-with-light-puzzling compared to the puzzling-with-light-narrative side of things.

The puzzling was light but the narrative strong and the best I felt was to get actively involved in sticking cards in shops, phoning call boxes and speaking to people - I really need to blog on this - and doing the missions actively rather than consuming passively.