Enter, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game – Season one. A game definitely aiming to win the award for 2020’s longest game title award. This story rich game will test your detective skills with the five included cases and while they may seem completely unconnected at first, your detective skills should soon find a link that joins them together and pieces together a bigger picture. The inclusion of the online element has made this puzzle-solving detective game a unique Study an enormous illustration to answer a series of questions in this Where’s Wally? style game. Carefully looking for clues across the game's map is the key to succeeding at MicroMacro: Crime City. Finally, the five cases in Detective are played out over a linked campaign. While you can play with anyone for any of the games you really are going to want the same group as one case leads into the next. The story definitely gets more interesting as it progresses, however I will admit that there is a LOT going on in the story. My only gripe here is that if you take time off from the game, there is not much in the way of a refresher for what happened in the past cases. Players will need to take copious amounts of good notes. You might find plot cards during a case that are added to a future case helping to link all the stories together. Final Thoughts: Finally, open the Casebook to Case 1 and read the introduction. At the end of the introduction story, the game will tell you if any additional setup is needed for this story. Often this includes adding reminder tokens to the board and stress tokens to the pool. Game Play

Take the job of a real detective in a modern setting! Solve mysterious crimes working as an Antares National Investigation Agency team member. In our overview, you will find a spoiler-free description of the game, along with details of the components and gameplay. Our Game Overviews strive to be informative and impartial. This aside, we both had a fantastic time playing Detective and having completed most of the cases, we are definitely looking forward to the new ones that are due to be released soon! Detective Conclusion Final Score: 4.5 Stars – A great investigation game that immerses you in the theme and never lets the mechanics get in the way.

Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game

Cards have QR codes that can be scanned to interrogate a perp, inspect a piece of evidence or sweep a crime scene for clues. Instead of reading from heavy tomes of text entries or managing hundreds of cards, you’ll be tapping through what looks like a visual novel. Scanning QR codes will allow you to travel from location to location and speak with the suspects there to gather information. You might then scan the QR code of an object to see what that suspect has to say about it. Not all characters are going to have something to say about every piece of evidence though, so you’ll have to be careful about who you approach with your investigations so as not to waste precious time. When scanning the QR codes of crime scenes, you’ll be taken into one of Chronicles of Crime’s more impressive features as you use your phone or tablet like a looking glass into a full 3D panorama of the locale. This enables players to search for relevant objects you can find matching cards to that will allow you to investigate further. Detective. It’s a title that delivers a simple promise. But Ignacy Trzewiczek’s ambitious and revolutionary creation overdelivers on its modest proposal in almost every regard, leaving one conclusion: this is nothing less than a modern crime-gaming masterpiece. Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game – Season One, a.k.a. Detective: Season One, is a fully co-operative, deeply immersive board game in which 1-5 players take on the roles of investigators trying to solve a crime. Detective: Season One is a new product in the award-winning Detective line, one with a shorter playing time that’s tailored for a mystery game night with simpler family-friendly rules. The game consists of three standalone cases, and each of them can be played in around 90 minutes. Each of the cases challenges players with different settings and styles. The cases are:

I should warn you though that Detective can be a real brain burner with lots of leads, names, and clues to remember. You definitely don’t want to play when you are tired or distracted. You need to be well organized and pay a lot of attention to detail if you hope to solve any of these cases. However for an investigative game, there isn’t a better tabletop experience and I can’t wait for more cases to play!This detective game is for players who want serious crime drama stories Players will travel to different locations to hunt for clues and interrogate suspects. Next to pieces of information either on the lead cards or in the Antares database, you will see words underlined with a wifi-like symbol next to it. This symbol denotes that you can use the internet to look up this bit of information. This game takes place within the real world, and as such many historical events play into the cases. The information you will find while doing these searches will help give greater context to the case and may even help you solve the case directly. Investigator Special Abilities Blood, Ink, and Tears moves the action to Great Britain, where players visit an old mansion and discover family secrets from the past that lead them to clues behind the mysterious death of the family patron. Fans of Agatha Christie’s novels will find themselves at home in this rather funny case!

Final Score: 4.5 Stars – A more streamlined version of the original Detective that lets players focus on the fun and moves the rest to the side. As I said in the intro, while I really enjoyed the original Detective, there were some things I didn’t love about it. One was the length. Some cases took 3-4 hours which was just too long for me. It turned it into a game you had to plan your night around, rather than one to pull off the shelf and play. The other issue was that the mechanics sometimes got in the way of the game. Having to deal with authority tokens, stress tokens, and specific skill tokens to manage felt kind of unnecessary and took away from the best part of the game, lead discovery and deduction. The game uses an online database for you to log evidence and look things up.I managed to play this at Tabletop Gaming Live and took on a case which tasked us to find the killer, the motive and also various other details that were perhaps deemed irrelevant while working the case (I loved this element as it kept us on our toes and pushed us to really dig into the case files, like real detectives). What’s in the Box? Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game is a fully cooperative game for 1- 5 players and is suitable for ages 16 & up due to the nature of the content in the game. Detective is considered a Campaign game and is played over five sessions, each having you solve a different case. Each case is related, and how you solve one case will impact subsequent cases. Detective, as the name suggests, is a game of deduction. You will have to use your interpretation skills and reading between the lines to figure out which clues are important and which aren’t. As members of the Antares National Investigation Agency, it is your task to unravel the mysteries and save the day. Game Components