crime city detective hidden object adventure

Cards pose questions that gesture in the right direction without giving too much away, such as “Where did the suspect dump the murder weapon before entering his apartment?” One player acts as lead investigator and reads the cards aloud to the others, who must search through the city for the victim first, then clues and evidence that will eventually pinpoint their culprit. The final version released in October 2020 included a massive fold-out map of the city and 16 card-based cases for a team of private investigators to unravel.

Track the adorable populace of a black-and-white city as they are mobbed, murdered and otherwise accosted by lawlessness in MicroMacro: Crime City, a cooperative detective board game.ĭesigner Johannes Sich, one of Hard Boiled Games’ three illustrators, concepted the idea at Essen Spiel in 2016 as a smartphone-based hidden object game, a la Where’s Wally? (Or Waldo, for those outside the UK.) Over the years, the smartphone was dropped as the titular city expanded and filled with characters until it was no longer feasible or fun to scroll through the bustling streets with fingers.

Crime city detective hidden object adventure