Review of Red Herring Games


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Sent wrong game, inside the right box.

Sent the wrong game inside the right box, then called me from a “no caller ID” phone number (auto blocked by my phone) but left a voicemail asking me to call them back. I called back to get their voicemail, that says “press 4 and one of us might answer the phone” but after pressing 4, I was directed to leave a voicemail asking me “they were probably out killing someone”. Whilst they are a murder mystery games company, I fear their customer services are represented in extremely poor taste and are offering an extremely poor service to the people who pay their salary. I’m leaving for London tomorrow to deliver this game as a gift. I suspect this error has only come to light as some other poor customer has complained that they also received the wrong murder mystery from what they ordered. I await their return call back with interest, unsure how they can make this right in the time frame.
Edit: when contact was finally established, the company was full of profuse apologies & bent over backwards to make our situation “right” as soon as humanly possible. They were very nice in the end. Except, then they posted the corrected game to the wrong named person at the address. Beggars belief.

May 20, 2025
Unprompted review

Reply from Red Herring Games

Glad we were able to sort this out for you in the end. Sorry it took so long to respond on trustpilot (We had issues logging back in and have only just been given access), but as you know we reached out the minute we realised something might be wrong - and spotted the issue before you even knew there was a problem. As you know it was all handled within a 6 hours of us realising there was an issue and reaching out, and we fixed it within 24 hours, at no cost to you, delivering the new game to your friend's address as per your request. I can only apologise we had a mix up on the address label to the new addressee (rushing to reach the post office in time for the 24 hour delivery service), but thankfully you'd already alerted them to let them know to expect a parcel, so when one turned up using their first name and your surname, they probably realised what had happened and took it in. I hope you enjoyed the evening after all, and can make use of the other game yourself. Sorry you reached the answering machine when you called back after we reached out that morning. But I was on another call when you rang so couldn't answer the phone. Jo