{"title":"Chronicles of Crime","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"chronicles-of-crime-1900","title":"Chronicles of Crime: 1900","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"You are Victor Lavel, a young ambitious journalist working for a major newspaper. It's the year 1900, the middle of the Belle epoque, and Paris flourishes. There are so many stories to cover, the Exposition Universelle, the Summer Olympics, the opening of the first metro station, but as a Lavel, a family famous for solving crimes since the Middle Ages, you are much more interested in murders, kidnappings, and robberies. Being a journalist helps you be among the first ones to know about them, and your wits often make you the first one to find the perpetrator.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe new Chronicles of Crime: 1900 standalone game challenges players not only to skillfully collect evidence and interrogate suspects but also to solve some escape-room-style puzzles incorporated into each scenario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan you guess the right combination to open the safe? Would you be able to decipher an encrypted message found on the crime scene? Can you trace the suspect by navigating a map? It won't be easy, but if you get stuck, you can ask your colleague Charlotte for help. She runs the \"Puzzles and Riddles\" column in your newspaper, so she can always give you a hint about the mystery you're struggling with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart of Chronicles of Crime - The Millennium Series\u003cbr\u003e\nChronicles of Crime is back with a range of games called \"The Millennium Series\". Three brand new standalone Chronicles of Crime games, working with the same great system but providing interesting gameplay twists and refreshing universes that span an entire millennium from 1400 to 1900 and finally 2400. All three games are standalone but will offer connecting narrative threads for players to discover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Spiral Galaxy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56049485775226,"sku":"ZBG-LKYCCMR02EN","price":19.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/9970\/8282\/files\/Chronicles-of-Crime-1900.jpg?v=1760982209"},{"product_id":"chronicles-of-crime-1400","title":"Chronicles of Crime: 1400","description":"\u003cp\u003eChronicles of Crime: 1400If you have ever thought you could out Sherlock Sherlock, out Poirot Poirot or out Endeavour Morse, then you need you check out Chronicles of Crime. Not only is it an excellent game but it is also a true innovation in the Board Game Industry.Chronicles of Crime (Lucky Duck Games) is set across a number of cases, both single cases and interwoven stories across a number of cases. In the game you have two decks of cards; one is characters and the other is clues, which are split into standard and special types. On top of this you have a central board to store clues that you have gathered during your investigation, location mats where you place character cards that are in those locations, and four specialist character mats. You can consult these specialists for medical, physical and psychological advice, during the case.All these components have one thing in common - a QR code. That's because you need a smartphone and an app to play this game. Normally this would put a lot of people off, the mix of technology and cardboard has a checkered past full of potential not yet realised... until now. Chronicles of Crime is a masterpiece of synergised gameplay and design.Loading up the app for the first time takes you into a simple tutorial case, but don't be fooled; subsequent cases up the ante and subtlety significantly. Cases will involve you being called to a scene which you can generally examine using the app. This can be done with the separate VR Module attached to your phone, or just through the phone's display. If you are playing with friends you will be frantically be shouting out all the things you see as they rifle through the clue cards to find something that might relate.Someone else can have a go too, but everything in this game costs time, and time is important with the chief cop demanding you get answers by certain deadlines. Interviews take place by scanning the QR code of characters, you can then ask them about other characters and items by scanning the relevant codes, and moving around the city is done in the same fashion. When you are ready the app will ask you a series of questions to ascertain whether you have solved the case with the correct reasoning or not, and then gives you a score based on this.Chronicles of Crime is a great game and experience, one that is easy to play and rewards logical thinking. The game comes with plenty of cases and the promise of more through digital content. It is quite unlike most other games, the closest it resembles is the popular escape room games, but it is more than that. For those budding armchair detectives in your life this is a fantastic choice.1400 is a standalone entry in the series that adds in prophetic dreams that you as the main character has, leading you too clues and lines of enquiry. Replacing your high tech modern team of advisors is your well connect family and trusty hound. Your dog can find people through smell! It works wonderfully well and adds to this already excellent series.Players: 1-4
Time: 60-90 mins
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Want to then ask them about the fingerprints left at a scene? Scan the relevant evidence. It's a simple but elegant system that sees the app intelligently translate the scanned items into relevance - scan a footprint and you will ask people their shoe size for example.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first expansion, , you lost access to your mobile phone and team of experts on standby but gained some actions. Getting nowhere with a potential witness? Try bribing or intimidating them. Burly security guard blocking your way to a crime scene? Break in later. The catch is characters remember your actions and react accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Redview, perhaps, shakes up the formula the most by ditching the cops\/PI angle in favour of an on-theme Scooby Doo\/Stranger Things mash up. This time you play as a group of teenagers, with curfews and all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe character you choose is persistent throughout the game as the story of a small town with big secrets progresses. Each character comes with their own player sheet listing their stats and holding energy tokens. Instead of being limited to four actions, you perform skill tests in one of three areas resulting in a fail or a pass. Skill tests are performed by a dice roll and dice can be re-rolled at the cost of energy. The app interaction works the same way but it's a testament to the strength of the system that it feels suitably different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs teenagers you don't have the same presence as the previous stories, and this really comes through. Break your 10pm curfew to see what I mean! 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Instead of Forensic Contacts, players have 4 action cards they can use at any point and any moment: Spy Break-In Bribe Intimidate You won't be able to intimidate everyone without repercussions. Also, your money is in a shortage, so you can't bribe everyone you meet. Noir really brings another side to crime busting! This Expansion requires the base game (London) to be played. It also requires an app to work (it's impossible to play without it), but once downloaded no Internet connexion is needed to play. 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Players simply put the VR glasses provided inside the game onto their mobile device, and put the VR glasses on their nose, holding their mobile device in front of their eyes, to immerse themselves in the game's universe and search for clues in a virtual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach session last around 1h to 1h30 minutes and many scenarios are connected to each others in order to tell a much bigger story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Spiral Galaxy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56049972937082,"sku":"ZBG-LKY036","price":10.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/9970\/8282\/files\/Chronicles-of-Crime-Virtual-Reality-Module.jpg?v=1760984280"},{"product_id":"chronicles-of-crime","title":"Chronicles of Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you have ever thought you could out Sherlock Sherlock, out Poirot Poirot or out Endeavour Morse, then you need you check out Chronicles of Crime. 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