![]() It is a black and white line drawing affair with plenty of detail. In this inventive game, the board is a paper fold-out map that takes up most of your table. A magnifying glass is included in the game to help with finding every detail. An attentive eye is just as important as a deductive talent in order to unravel everything riddle on the 75 x 110 cm large game board. Together, the players solve 16 tricky criminal cases by determining motives, finding evidence and convicting the perpetrators. MicroMacro – Crime City is a cooperative detective game. Therefore, the work of clever investigators is required. The local police are no longer able to control the situation. Disastrous secrets, devious robberies and cold-blooded murders are the order of the day here. Welcome to Crime City, a city where crime lurks around every corner. Played with review copy provided by Pegasus Spiele and Edition Spielwiese.Examine the city map closely and follow the movements of the victims and the suspects until you have all of the answers you need. That’s all you really have to worry about. This process continues until players have worked through the whole case and solved it. If not, the player who looked allows the others to continue searching without spoiling the answer. If the question is answered, then players move onto the next card. Every case card has a question and players cannot reveal the back side of the cards until they feel they’ve answered that question. There might be some text or visual details that players should pay attention to as well because they can provide a direction for the investigation.Īfter the introductory card, the rest of the case takes place in numerical order. Each case starts with introductory text and an image of the central figure in the story (usually the victim). It’s up to you how you want to experience the crime-solving fun.Īnd that’s what you’re doing-solving crime. But you can take turns on different cases and find other solutions to make the experience inviting for however many people are there around the table. You can play MicroMacro: Crime City at several different player counts, but for the purposes of standing at a table and looking at a map, it plays best with just two, so that each player isn’t crowding out the other. It is a deduction game distilled down to a story-stuffed page and the keen eye of the investigators around the table. Players will have to work together to determine where the scenes of the crimes, the victims, the perpetrators, and then the evidence or motive necessary to close the case.ĭesigned by Johannes Sich and published by Pegasus Spiele, it’s a game not claiming the pretenses of excessive production or overly complex mechanics. MicroMacro: Crime City is a cooperative detective game. Chock-full of human error and fatal decisions, it’s bound to elicit childhood joy as your adult brain scans and parses every piece of information your eyes glean from the page. It packs mature themes and visual violence onto a fold-out map. ![]() But don’t be deceived by the innocent look of MicroMacro: Crime City as this is not a kid-friendly romp through the city. In the years since our childhood innocence and fascination with visual puzzles led into other hobbies, it’s easy to forget the simple pleasure of looking for clues and hidden mysteries on a page. Where was Waldo murdered in cold blood? I spy with my little eye (through the lens of an included magnifying glass) a tale of torrid love affairs and lives cut short. ![]()
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