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Players
1-4
Age
14+
Playtime
60 min
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Two-mode design (competitive and cooperative) adds flexibility and learning curve
- Engaging time-pressure and event-driven challenges
- Dynamic information flow and selective action access creates interesting dice-and-deduction tension
- Solid production, compact box, attractive components, and thematic presentation
Cons
- Event cards can be harsh or punishing in early games
- Two-player balance can sometimes skew with limited clue tokens and increased risk of dead ends
- Clue-like envelopes for clues can become nicked or stiff, affecting usability
- Kingpin expansion adds considerable complexity and can overwhelm new players
Thematic elements
- Detective noir / crime investigation under time pressure, with investigators racing to solve the case
- Urban city police precincts and a city-district crime scene environment, with a time-based ticking clock influencing decisions and events
- Array
Comparison games
- Clue
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Drive around town, search for evidence, catch informants or witnesses, and maneuver through checks to collect clues.
- Cooperative Game — Players can play cooperatively or competitively, each mode changing access to actions and information flow.
- cooperative vs competitive modes — Players can play cooperatively or competitively, each mode changing access to actions and information flow.
- deduction — Clues are gathered through a mix of actions and positioning, forming the core path to identification of the culprit.
- evidence collection — Clues are gathered through a mix of actions and positioning, forming the core path to identification of the culprit.
- final deduction reveal — At the end, players reveal the murderer based on gathered information, with the best detective named.
- suspect management — Suspects are acquired and revealed; the correct combination of suspects and clues leads to the solution.
- Time track — Time advances as players act; crossing thresholds can trigger negative events or alter available options.
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Quotes (from this video)
- two different options of choosing the competitive and the cooperative
- this plays way way different to how clue plays
- I would say this is solid and does something different than any of them do
- this will probably make like my top five in the series
- the city is placed differently and the puzzle's always going to be new
- I think the capos are great; there's kind of no reason not to add them
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