Vienna Connection

Vienna Connection is the newest cooperative espionage board game for 1-5 players from Portal Games. This story-driven board game is set in Central Europe during historic Cold War era. Become CIA agents sent on four missions forming a single epic story. Outthink foreign agents, run secret operations, intercept Soviet reports and decode CIA messages. The game mechanics are inspired by the award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, but have been further developed to reflect the espionage theme.

Cold War era cooperative game

Vienna Connection is a cooperative deduction game in which you lead a team of CIA agents, carrying out covert operations throughout Central Europe in the midst of the Cold War. It comes with 4 challenging missions creating an epic campaign.

First real espionage game

If you like spy movies or novels, Vienna Connection is the game where you can finally be a spy and do everything you’ve seen in the movies: contact informants, intercept Soviet reports, decode messages from the CIA, monitor wiretapped conversations.

Rich historical theme

The multilayered story is deeply rooted in actual historical events that took place in Europe during the Cold War. Throughout the game you will meet historical figures and visit real places that held strategic importance during the conflict.

Go back in time

Visit Europe in the '70s

Completing missions will take you to major European cities, such as Vienna, Prague, and Berlin in the middle of Cold War conflicts. You will communicate with local police and informants to gather intel from various sources.

Stay undercover

Your every action increases exposure that might lead foreign agencies to uncover your activity and force the CIA headquarters to abort your missions. That’s why it’s important to efficiently balance your activities to stay undercover.

Based on a classic

Vienna Connection is a stand-alone game inspired by the award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. It uses similar card mechanics and app support, while adding new mechanics connected to the spy theme.

Vienna Connection

Key points: 

• cooperative espionage board game for 1-5 players
• story-driven game set in Central Europe during historic Cold War era
• become CIA agents sent on four missions forming a single epic story
• unique spy game blending fiction with documentary journalism

• 100 pages of files
• 72 cards (70x120 mm) 
• 8 Mission sheets
• 15 wooden tokens
• 1 rulebook 
• 4 envelopes for Missions, which contain: 
  • Mission intro
  • Local agents set
  • Operations set
  • An envelope with the decryption code

Download: 

• Rulebook