With about 60 hours left on the clock, The Glasgow Train Robbery is wrapping up its Gamefound campaign at 485% funded. If you have a regular gaming partner and a taste for history, get in before it closes on Thursday.
Designed by Eloi Pujadas and Ferran Renalias and published by Salt and Pepper Games, this is a 2-player cooperative game based on the 1963 Great Train Robbery, when a gang intercepted a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London and made off with 2.6 million pounds. One player takes the Coordinator role, managing equipment and helpers from the safe house. The other plays the Operative, working out in the field along the tracks, solving problems as they come up. Communication between the two is deliberately limited, filtered through walkie-talkie exchanges that force creative problem-solving.
The standout detail is the Monopoly board. In the real robbery, the gang hid at Leatherslade Farm and played Monopoly with stolen banknotes to pass the time. They forgot to wipe their fingerprints from the board, and police later used those prints as evidence to help convict several members. In the game, a miniature Monopoly board sits at the Coordinator's station as a rondel mechanic, and evidence accumulates whenever characters interact with it. A playful nod to one of history's most famous criminal blunders.
Dan Thurot at Space-Biff called it "a kettle-tight heist unlike any other," praising the tension of limited communication, though he noted the Coordinator role is less dynamic than the Operative's.
Salt and Pepper Games, a Madrid-based publisher known for history-themed titles like The Voynich Puzzle and Operation Barclay, has confirmed this is the first entry in a planned heist series covering legendary robberies from around the world. The campaign has raised over 38,000 EUR from 1,288 backers and closes Thursday.
Sources: Gamefound | Space-Biff | BGG | Salt and Pepper Games
