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+
Actorios
Good game : very accessible and fulfilling. Very few games can be played out of the box and are easy enough to be introduced to very casual gamers. Stories are well set and have the right blend of mature themes with casual game graphics. We had a blast with the first three scenarios played over three day in a satisfying crescendo (we failed to discover everything in the first two to get a perfect score in the last round). Technology is at the center of the game but it allows for a lot of fluidity which is very enjoyable. I’m looking forward to trying the other scenarios with other gamers (or as a 2-players game).
-Morphling-
My wife and I love the concept of this game but for us, the execution falls short. There are too many dead ends where you're just grasping at straws with no leads. You spend so much time questioning random people until you find the one that might give you a clue and then it seems like you're right back at square one. When you eventually manage to progress the case, it often feels like you've stumbled through randomly rather than through using deduction. Each investigation is mainly on rails and if you try to deviate from one of the few tracks, it won't let you continue unless you question the right people in the right order. And in the final stage of the game, you just guess the who, what, and why with a lot of conjecture and hearsay rather than with definitive evidence. It doesn't make you feel like a detective at all as all of our "evidence" would make for a very flimsy court case. We somehow won both times we played... and it wasn't satisfying. I would play more, but it was so frustrating the first two times that I feel like I don't want to waste any more time with it. We tried 2 player and 3 player and I honestly think solo might be best. Often times the person with the phone is the only one who's actually doing anything while the other players are just observing, particularly when there are no leads (which is most of the game). We also didn't like the crime scene investigation using the app. The graphics weren't crisp enough to make out what certain objects were supposed to be so we missed a lot of clues. I would say that maybe we aren't great at detective/deduction games, but we did alright with Sherlock Holmes and that game is known for being difficult. Anyway, this game has rave reviews (and the app integration is a clever idea), so maybe the problem is just that it isn't for us.
AlexDev
Fantastic co-op game. The app does all the hard work of setup and management, making this a very easy game to teach and dive into. The cases are entertaining and fun to solve (think more TIME Stories than True Detective). We've been loving playing through. Perfect for a lighter/easier evening of Games.