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The game is a detective game where you get set of evidences and need to decide who is the criminal. You get set physical objects in combination with digital parts and use them for investigation. At the end of the process players need to enter the name of the criminal and it will be validated if it’s correct. It’s also possible to get hints which will help finding the right solution.
Game can played in a cooperative mode as well as in a competition mode – players can split into teams and compete who is finding the criminal first.
The game is designed as a realistic criminal case and requires investigations similar to those carried out by the Criminal Police in real life.
—description from the designer
In unserem Spiel werden Sie als echter Detektiv tätig sein, um den Fall eines verdächtigen Brands zu untersuchen, der in der Stadt Adlerstein stattfand und zum Tod eines Bürgers führte.
Wegen Brandstiftung mit fatalen Folgen wird ein Journalist angeklagt. Er sammelte zahlreiche Beweise mit dem Ziel, seine Unschuld zu beweisen.
Sie müssen ermitteln, ob er die Wahrheit sagt, und den wahren Verbrecher finden.
Das Spiel ist als realistischer Kriminalfall ausgedacht und erfordert Untersuchungen ähnlich denen, die von der Kriminalpolizei im wirklichen Leben durchgeführt werden.
—description from the designer (German)
Ages | 13+ |
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Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players |
Play Time | 90m – 120m |
Designer | Alexander Krys, Christoph Kossendey, Georgil Shugol |
Mechanics | Cooperative Game, Team-Based Game |
Theme | Deduction, Murder/Mystery, Party Game, Puzzle |
Publisher | iDventure, Origames, University Games, Hobby World |
Umbalia
I played it with one friend and we were able to solve all of the riddles without too much difficulty. We enjoyed it a lot and liked how the riddles and combination of objects worked. The riddles made sense and fit into the setting/plot without being just sensless tasks to occupy your time. I'm just always sad when you can only play games once. However I liked that you're not destroying the material so can easily give it to new players for them to enjoy as well.
shadow_bind
Detective Stories: The Fire in Adlerstein is a crime-solving game (or activity, really) in which players are asked to prove the innocence of journalist Carl Notebeck in a fatal case of arson. Players uncover clues to the crime by sifting through a box of evidence compiled by Carl himself. Conveniently enough, Carl has covered a lot of groundwork beforehand, and even slips in a structure to approaching the case. Despite the case being on the easy side, it was immensely satisfying to gradually parcel out the deluge of information into manageable chunks. Sure, there were a few points where typos, narrative loopholes and unnecessarily gamified evidence broke the immersion, but the overall experience was still fun. This belongs to a rather small genre of crime dossier/cold case mystery-solving games which are unfortunately not readily available in this part of the world.
DRP01
Played as a threesome. We were all involved for over 90 minutes bringing different approaches to the same problems. It presented a good puzzle but not ridiculously so. There was a real feeling of success when someone said "that ties in with something I saw earlier". You only get one play but it is not too expensive and you do not destroy or deface any of the contents of the box,