Chronicles of Crime
Chronicles of Crime is a cooperative game of criminal investigation mixing board game, an app and a touch of Virtual Reality. You and your team will be put on crime cases, moving all around town, interviewing suspects or witnesses, and searching for clues in 3D scenes!
The base game comes with 6 scenarios (1 tutorial + 5 investigations) for a total of 6 to 8 hours of gameplay. More scenarios will be released later!
60m - 90m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
6tevidim
Excellent game and I am not a coop fan at all. The artwork is very good. Beware: this is not a "family" game where children below 13 can play. I played it with my 9 year old daughter mistakenly thinking of Cluedo. We had to overcome two difficult evenings and nights with no going to sleep and nightmares...
albcann
I recognize its appeal, but it didn't grab me. Not a fan of technology mixed with board games either.
Akindor
Exceeded my expectations. I really like Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, and my original, childhood favorite game is Clue, so I'm always on the lookout for fresh and exciting mystery games. The modern setting of the mysteries in this core game is more immediately engaging, and the amount of detail and leads to follow is much higher than I expected. But the solution of an easy mystery made sense, and didn't have the ridiculous leaps of logic or silly resolutions that some SH:CD cases definitely have. Good writing, as well. I will fault it for not being the most intuitive to play with multiple players. You could definitely enjoy this solo. With others, it's hard to know when to pass the phone to someone else, because that's the main gameplay to be had, and it's so much fun to scan people, places and things and get so much information for each scan. SH: CD does a better job of prompting the taking of turns. The "VR" segments are pretty fun, too! Though the scene can be a bit blurry and hard to discern at times through the little goggles-- some items in the scene I simply couldn't tell what they were. We needed multiple people to view a scene though to find clues we missed, though, which was really fun and rewarding. We also loved the police chief badgering us about stuff he, thematically, shouldn't know about ("you missed a clue at this crime scene! time is running out!"), but he provided help and fun stress on where to go next and when. I'm very excited to try out the Noir and Redview mysteries as well, as they have some distinct gameplay twists/differences that sound very compelling.