MicroMacro: Crime City, MicroMacro: Crime City - Full House, and MicroMacro: Crime City - All In are all designed by Johannes Sich and published by Pegasus Spiele and Edition Spielwiese. As always our thoughts and opinions are our own. Case cards include maturity symbols to help parents determine which stories are suitable for junior investigators. Bring home a copy of Micro Macro Crime City for your home here Find this and all our top game recommendations on our Amazon storefront A special thank you to our friends at Pegasus Spiele for sending us a copy of Micro Macro Crime City for review. To help you catch every detail, MicroMacro: Crime City - All In includes a magnifying glass. The map depicts multiple points in time, so characters will appear on the map in different places, showing a connected chain of events. In each case, players will receive cards that ask them to find something or someone on the map and connect sections of the map relevant to the case.
MicroMacro: Crime City - All In comes with 16 cases for players to cooperatively solve. Examine the city map closely and follow the movements of the victims and the suspects until you have all of the answers you need.MicroMacro: Crime City, the winner of the 2021 Spiel des Jahres award, is getting it's second standalone follow-up this year with MicroMacro: Crime City - All In.Įach MicroMacro: Crime City game is played on a 75 x 110 cm black-and-white illustrated map. 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. MicroMacro: Crime City: Full House - Board Game by Pegasus Spiele 1-4 Players Board Games for Family 15-45 Minutes of Gameplay Games for Family Game Night Kids and Adults Ages 12+ - English. 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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