Crime O'Clock is an investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
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When the game was first announced on an Indie World, they decided the one letter of the game's name on the logo that needed to be spinning is the L. I couldn't even think about the game, just "Crime WHAT".
This is a hidden picture game where you have to solve crimes by going back in time and doing these little Where's Waldo puzzles. It's alright.
This is a hidden picture game where you have to solve crimes by going back in time and doing these little Where's Waldo puzzles. It's alright.
I love hidden object games but this one really overwhelms you. There are ticks and it doesn't say how much time has passed between each tick. It gives you an objective but you get lost trying to find it and not in a good way that you expect from a hidden object game. Also the most frustrating part that I encountered was all that text. Yeah I understand that this game has a lore but it isn't an excuse to shove several dialogues down my throat at every given opportunity. It really interrupts the gameplay. A solid 3/5 if you like the genre.
I play a lot of hidden object games and while the concept is fun it's executed so so poorly. It'll ask you to find someone and give you no description or you've only seen the person from behind. There is a mechanic where you look at a location at different points in time and there is no consistency in how much time has passed between the different points in time. Decisions were made while making this game that make it difficult to play for no good reason.
I randomly found that game while searching some interesting games. I bought it and I must say that it's a funny little game. Crime O'clock is some sort of 'Where's Waldo" and the story reminds me a lot on the TVA in the Marvel series Loki. I often imagine that I'm just playing as a TVA agent because of that "paradox", "anomalie" and "Crimes that take place even though they shouldn't" stuff. It's not the best game ever, but if you're searching a distraction for a few hours, this might be your game
Take this review with a grain of salt, because I don't play hidden object games and I thought from the trailer that this was more of a mystery puzzle game.
Anyway, a compelling plot buoys an otherwise tedious Where's Waldo-a-like. Also, it's way too long at over forty levels. At the time of this writing, I just finished the 33rd level and finding out how the story ends is maybe the only reason I'm still playing, as I become actively annoyed as I play.
EDIT: I have finished the game and my opinion remains unchanged. The final area of the game has a nice difficulty spike in the sense that it is so dense and cluttered that it pains me to focus on it, which I like, I suppose. The final levels of the game are also clever in practice, albeit in execution they’re very clunky.
Anyway, a compelling plot buoys an otherwise tedious Where's Waldo-a-like. Also, it's way too long at over forty levels. At the time of this writing, I just finished the 33rd level and finding out how the story ends is maybe the only reason I'm still playing, as I become actively annoyed as I play.
EDIT: I have finished the game and my opinion remains unchanged. The final area of the game has a nice difficulty spike in the sense that it is so dense and cluttered that it pains me to focus on it, which I like, I suppose. The final levels of the game are also clever in practice, albeit in execution they’re very clunky.
it's a really fun twist on finding games! it surprised me how well-paced it is, in the sense that it forces you to change maps (each map being a time period) enough so that it doesn't get tedious or boring. in the same way when it comes down to it every case is solved in the same way, but most of them have their little thing going on so it doesn't really feel repetitive. i also really enjoyed finding all pop culture references!