Chronicles of Crime Detective Game: Base Set plus 1900 and Noir

Description: Chronicles of Crime is a cooperative game of crime investigation, mixing an app, a board game and a touch of Virtual Reality.With the same physical components (board, locations, characters and items), players will be able to play plenty of different scenarios and solve as many different crime stories.Players start the app, choose the scenario they want to play, and follow the story. The goal being to catch the killer of the current case in the shortest time possible.Using the Scan&Play technology, each component (locations, characters, items, etc.) has a unique QR code, which, depending on the scenario selected, will activate and trigger different clues and stories. That means players will be able to get new stories way after the game is released simply by downloading the app's updates, without any shipping of new physical components involved.Optional VR experience: only requires a mobile phone. Players place VR glasses (sold separately) 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.The game comes with 1 tutorial and 5 scenarios, but more can be downloaded directly inside the app!Each session last around 1h to 1h30 minutes and many scenarios are connected to each others in order to tell a much bigger story.1900“You are Victor Lavel, a young ambitious journalist working for a major newspaper. It's the year 1900, the middle of the Belle Époque, 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.”The 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.Can 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.Noir is an expansion authored by Stephane Anquetil, a very talented writer with credentials including Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective scenarios as well as Escape Books and Box (404 éditions).In Noir, the whole group is collectively representing one private detective with unconventional methods.Instead of Forensic Contacts, players have 4 action cards they can use at any point and any moment:SpyBreak-InBribeIntimidateYou 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.

Price: 50 USD

Location: Portland, Oregon

End Time: 2025-01-28T21:45:48.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD