Description
Welcome to Crime City – a city with crime lurking around every corner. Deadly secrets, sneaky robberies and cold-blooded murders are commonplace around here. The local police are no longer in control of the situation. Therefore, your investigative skills are now required!Crimes have taken place all over the city, and you want to figure out exactly what's happened, so you'll need to look closely at the giant city map to find all the hidden information and trace the trails of those who had it in for their foes.
MicroMacro: Crime City includes 16 cases for you to solve. Each case includes a number of cards that ask you to find something on the map or uncover where someone has gone or otherwise reveal information relevant to a case. The city map serves as a map in time as well as space, so you'll typically find people in multiple locations throughout the streets and buildings, and you need to piece together what happened, whether by going through the case card by card or by reading only the starting card in the case and trying to figure out everything that happened for yourself. Will you be able to answer all questions about the case without fail?
Personal Thoughts
Fair warning, bring your reading glasses and your high-powered magnifying glass: this game is all about the tiny details. That said, this is a positively delightful little filler game. If Where's Waldo consisted entirely of black and white line drawings, and challenged you to solve murders and kidnappings by tracing the steps of characters through different parts of the book (or, in this case, a huge map), that would be MicroMacro: Crime City.You'll solve more than a dozen cases, increasing in difficulty as you go, where a card describes the case and identifies your first task. Once you find the item listed in the task, you'll unlock another card. When you reach the bottom of the stack of cards, you've solved the mystery.
Depending on difficulty the case, how well you've familiarized yourself with the map, and how adept you are at spotting unique characteristics like clothing, hairstyles, car bumpers, cases might each take anywhere from 5-30 minutes. Even when we have plans to solve a bigger mystery on our Mystery Mondays, we love sprinkling in a case or two from MicroMacro: Crime City while we wait for our dinner order.
And when you run out of cases, there are 2 more games in the series, plus bonus mini-mysteries on the MicroMacro website.