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Where’s Waldo? Becoming a time-traveling, point-and-click detective! - Crime O’Clock Quick Review

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Crime O'Clock

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PLAY IT OR SKIP IT?

Play it! Crime O’Clock is a cartoony puzzle point-and-click investigation game about agents that go back in time to find clues and solve crimes before they’re even committed. It’s a flawless deduction game that merges time-traveling with point-and-click gameplay and simple puzzles to create an engaging and entertaining crime-solving experience.

TIME PLAYED

I played Crime O’Clock for four hours. I managed to get through around fifteen levels, with each one taking anywhere between ten to twenty-five minutes to solve. I usually tried to solve crimes without using hints, so it took me longer to progress through the game. The levels also got a lot more difficult the further I got into the game.

WHAT’S AWESOME

• Solving crimes. Crime O’Clock never bored me with its crime-solving challenges. The thought of using time as a mechanic to identify clues and solve crimes before they even happen is an ingenious idea that’s perfectly pulled off through polished gameplay and visuals.

• Changing maps. I find the attention to detail across all five maps really impressive. In Crime O’Clock, I traveled between ten different timelines within each map to crack different cases. This mechanic changed the environment and characters in between each version of these maps which kept things fresh.

• Hints. I’m not the sharpest detective in the world, so I appreciated having access to help whenever I got stuck in Crime O’Clock. After struggling for around half a minute, I could choose to reveal hints in the level which led me to the next clue. This feature made the game more comfortable and enjoyable.

• Dialogue. Thanks to the well-written dialogue that guided me along, I had no struggle at all understanding the fundamentals of Crime O’Clock and its narrative. It was impressive that this dialogue was able to cohesively explain the game’s complex mechanics very clearly and keep me entertained at the same time.

• Aesthetic. Crime O’Clock features a beautiful, cartoony black-and-white visual style with bold outlining for most of the environment and characters that reminds me of the book series Where’s Waldo? There’s so much detail across every little piece of Crime O’Clock that it’s hard not to be astounded by the meticulousness of its aesthetic.

WHAT SUCKS

• Nothing. While writing the positive things about Crime O’Clock, I tried thinking of anything majorly negative about the game that even slightly irritated or disappointed me, but I couldn’t put my finger on anything. Crime O’Clock is a masterpiece.

💬 Are you going to play Crime O’Clock or will you skip it? Tell me down in the comments!