Crime O'Clock Reviews

If you know and like “MicroMacro,” this is a must-have. I also love the pop culture Easter eggs.

Do you like where's waldo books, and do you like finding unspoken comedic stories within pictures, while solving a time lord's mystery? You'll enjoy this game.

Crime O'Clock has a really cool idea and it is a lot of fun to play, especially with the easy-to-use touch controls on handheld devices. It is also perfect for quick game sessions.

Hidden object game with beautiful graphics, a plot and interesting mechanics. There is a lot of attention to details in the design of characters who appeared in each 'age' and how their behavior changes over time (tbh, it feels kinda like observing people walking in the streets). Do note that the dialogues tend to be lengthy, so skip if you do not have patience to read.

It looks great, the art is clean and stylish, but you don't really get to enjoy playing it much as you're railroaded every step, and every time you find something the game needs to pause and s l o w l y transition to a different screen and put you through one of a handful of annoying mini games before you're allowed to look again. A lot of it is summed up by "here's a fantastical setting you've never seen before, everything is weird and wonderful, you have no idea what rules or sense this place lives by! Find the thing that's unusual." or "It's by bob's home" I have no idea yet who bob is, what they look like, or where their home is. or "Find X!" okay, well X is clearly here. "Nope" I can see it. It's here. "No, actually I wanted you to use a different feature on X not just find it, I just wasn't going to tell you that." The story tries to be interesting, and I intend to finish it off at least but it's 80% "let's do the only next step I'll allow!" and 20% "Hello I am mysterious, I don't have much time. I'm not going to actually tell you anything. Now where was I? Oh yes. Trust me. I'm mysterious. I'm out of time now." I've played some of these types of games on paper where they don't have the luxury of changing things as you play like this does so it's shocking that this feels less immersive and more linear! It's a real shame because again the art is great, a lot of the details are neat, plenty of easter eggs to find, but it REALLY needs a way to turn off the story and let you free-roam between ticks on a map.

Quite cool game with a great hidden item gameplay, had a lot of fun while playing it.

This game has a cool concept and interesting story. But the main problem is that the gameplay is interrupted too much which makes playing the game feels so tiring. You solve a small clue, then have to wait for the NPC to finish the dialogue, then solve a mini puzzle which is unrelated to the hidden objects mechanic (and not even challenging), then solve a small clue, repeat these above. I just hope that the game has a way to keep playing the game fluently and you can solve the case by yourself, not by following an AI instruction. I got this game on 90% sale so the price is still acceptable for me. On a full price maybe not.

The interface to this game is not good. After figuring out I could turn off the annoying clicking for text and epilepsy inducing (and unnecessary) flashing for glitching, I was left wanting to speed up the text and transitions... but no options there. The constant reference to locations on a map, where you have no reference to the location (i.e. got to the Tower of Dumb Programming) is just not fun. Save your money and go buy MicroMacro Crime City (physical copy).