Panda
521 escape rooms
Chronicles of Crime is a series of mystery games, incorporating multiple cases in each box encompassing different time periods from past to future. This is the original base game set in modern day featuring 5 cases. What makes these games stand out from more card-based or book-based detective games (like Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective), is that it uses an app to scan QR codes to assist with investigating 3D crime scenes, examining clues, speaking with witnesses, etc. The contents of each scene change depending on your progress with the case, so it has an additional level of immersion and time progression that may not be present in other similar games. I thought the stories themselves were good, but not necessarily stellar fiction. They’re fun enough for an interactive mystery, and the QR code elements, provided they work and don’t go down, are well-used. I look forward to playing the other box expansions across different time periods!
