The Mysterious Package Company

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The Mysterious Package Company
Company type Private
Founded2013
Founder
  • Colin Bolton
  • Misha Schneider
  • Tim Sullivan
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
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Canada
Website https://mysteriouspackage.com/
Footnotes /references
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The Mysterious Package Company is a Canadian company founded in 2013 that produces mystery, adventure, and horror-themed tabletop-puzzle games and mailed artifacts. [2] [3]

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History

Colin Bolton, Misha Schneider, and Tim Sullivan co-founded The Mysterious Package Company in 2013, as a company producing narrative-driven games delivered through the postal service. In 2014, Jason Kapalka, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur, joined the company as a primary investor.[ citation needed ]

Between 2015 and 2019, The Mysterious Package Company launched a series of Kickstarter campaigns. In 2015, they launched The Century Beast, which raised over $300,000 USD and was backed by 1,291 pledges. [2] In 2016, the company launched a campaign for a Victorian horror experience, Filigree in Shadow. [2]

In 2021, the company worked with Toronto-based puzzle company Curious Correspondence to produce Doomensions: Mystery Manor, which became one of the five highest-grossing tabletop-puzzle campaigns on Kickstarter.[ citation needed ] In 2023, the company formally acquired Curious Correspondence.[ citation needed ]

In 2024, the company published No Escape: Dead Man's Tale on Kickstarter. The following year, in 2025, they released Innsmouth Rising, a new crate-based narrative experience that also met its crowdfunding goal.[ citation needed ]

References

  1. "The Mysterious Package Company". LinkedIn . 23 December 2025. Archived from the original on 23 December 2025. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Efron, Sarah (6 August 2015). "'Mysterious Package' campaign rakes in the cash on Kickstarter". The Globe and Mail . Archived from the original on 21 December 2025. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  3. "Mystery package service brings intrigue to your doorstep". Cbc.ca . 8 July 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2025. Retrieved 9 December 2015.