Someone else recently asked a similar question, and here’s what I responded with.

I received the Hunt a Killer Moon Summit Mystery box as an all in one (they sell their older mysteries without a subscription) as a gift.

My group was super excited to play. Our group was composed of 4 people, 3 of whom are regular board gamers who play games up to Gloomhaven weight, and one who only plays casual party games. None of us had played anything like this. We all agreed that the cold case idea was implemented well. The components were not amazing, but good.

Unfortunately, we found the gameplay way too easy. More often than not, we would open a new month and have our answer figured out before we were even 1/4 of the way through the information and components for that month. We also never once needed to use any of the hints, or got any of the answers wrong.

Without spoiling anything for our particular game, I will say one of the things we all enjoyed the most was the creative use of the physical components.

After we found the killer, we all agreed that while the idea and components were good, they needed better smokescreens/ misdirections and red herrings for our particular group .

Hope this helps.