Crime O’Clock is an absolute gem for fans of detective stories, hidden object puzzles, and clever time travel twists! I didn’t expect to fall so hard for this one — but wow, I’m hooked. 🔍✨

The game is all about solving crimes by examining large, highly detailed maps that change over time. You’re not just looking for clues — you’re tracking how events evolve, what people do, and how seemingly small actions spiral into big consequences. It’s incredibly satisfying to piece together the story bit by bit and uncover the full timeline of a crime.

The black-and-white comic-style art is stylish and readable, and the way the game slowly adds layers and mechanics keeps it feeling fresh throughout. Some later puzzles really made me stop and think — it’s challenging, but in the best way.

It’s also surprisingly cozy! Despite the crime theme, there’s no violence or gore, just pure brainy fun and clever storytelling. It’s perfect to play solo with a cup of tea or even co-op with a friend helping spot clues.

If you love games like Return of the Obra Dinn, Where’s Waldo, or anything time-loop-related, this one’s a must-play. I truly hope we get more in this universe!

不是
警探追查小偷，小偷把警探杀了，尸体喂了鳄鱼
于是我们倒转时间线，在警探发现小偷身份之前，把他电晕（而且画面写的是“电击身亡”？？）
醒来后，警探和小偷喜结连理，快乐的生活在一起
这对么？！

Fun concept and wonderful art, but it was in the oven for too long. Each step you take in a story mission leads to either overly long dialogue for a bit or one of several mini-games that feel like padding and/or unfun breaks from the main gameplay. The plot is a pile of loose string holding the rest of the game up because it's just you chasing after bad guys with vague motives to destroy everything.

My biggest complaint is that the time periods in the environment don't make much sense; with some folks going from moving a decent distance in a logical direction between point A and point B, followed by them teleporting to the opposite side of the map and becoming a chicken for point C.

When I realized I was only halfway through this game, I decided I had my fill. This is an on sale buy for folks that REALLY like Waldo. Otherwise, you're probably good.

I'm going to recommend it, but with a few major caveats.

As a hidden object game, it's hit or miss. My favorite part of the game were the side-quests that allowed you to find a certain character throughout all 10 stages in a particular age. They were all interesting in-universe takes of various pop culture references. Seeing the One Piece reference in the Atlantean age, for example, made me very happy. However, as I read in another post, each time you complete one, they spend about 10-15 seconds recapping on each stage you found in order to "tell the story" you already saw. This makes it take 1-2 minutes just to complete a find, and there's no way to skip it.

On the other hand, the main story attempts to be some sort of detective whodunnit, but because of the massive amounts of hand-holding, it's really difficult to really engage with any of it. I ended up taking a several month break from the game after finishing the side-character finds and don't feel like I really sacrificed my enjoyment of the game doing it. In fact, completing the story felt like a chore, seeing as between every find, there's an injection of unnecessary dialogue that makes each stage take so much longer than you'd think.

The boss stages and final stages (Minutes to Midnight section) were definitely my least favorite part. During boss fights, they show you the items you found previously as "attacks" and different (somehow related) items as hints as to which item you use. While the first three were straightforward, the final two were obtuse and difficult to understand. The second-to-last boss fight shows you a bunch of dots or shapes, and you're supposed to link them to 3D figures (like a cube, icosahedron, etc). While I was able to figure most of them out, some didn't make much sense to me at all. Ended up just requiring counting dots and linking that number to the number of sides to a polyhedron. The last one, though, had me incredibly frustrated and scratching my head the whole time. Yes, I understand "pillow" links to "alarm clock" and "lamppost" sheds light on a "sundial", but glasses? Pearl necklace? Even the design of what I think is a pen is so ambiguous that I can't even figure out what it was supposed to be. And on top of that, I have 0 clue how a chair or table is supposed to link to any of the time-related items I have. I spent that entire fight hoping to land on one of the three connections I knew worked and failing continuously on all the other ones because there was no way to work out the logic. I also accidentally clicked through one of the "Minutes to Midnight" dialogues and blanked entirely on what was said, leaving me entirely lost on what to do since I had no recollection and no hint as to what I was looking for. I had to click every single character on the map to figure it out, which is NOT fun. Having "Find the first human virtue" in the top left is NOT a hint and is NOT helpful in any way, and seeing as I had that several month break, there was basically no chance I could remember each and every case up until that point, or how they related to these virtues. I doubt that even someone who marathoned the game in one sitting would be able to handle that, so the ending is definitely the weakest part of the game.

Honestly, as a finding game, it's fine. I like how it created a storyline you could follow with the side-finds you could do, and would have preferred the game to lean more on that instead of the incredibly linear hand-holding "adventure" we got instead. The finale was fine all things considered, but was incredibly tropey and telegraphed from the moment it started. The strengths of the game are overshadowed heavily by the story, and the lack of freedom outside of the extra quests made the game feel like a chore. My recommendation is to play the story up until the point where all 5 ages are unlocked and enjoy the much more enjoyable side-game. After that, finishing the game's story is entirely up to you.

The game is beautiful with very nice artistic direction. Surprisingly, it has a good lifespan, and the stories are quite enjoyable.
But on certain screens, the anti-aliasing is a bit broken, which, along with the boring minigames, which are 90% just bad, ruins the experience.
Crime O'Clock is a good, fairly innovative detective game, but it's never worth €20. If you like detective games and point and clicks, then you should enjoy it, but please wait until it's under €5 to buy it.

I paid $2 for the game and that's given me an appropriate amount of enjoyment. I think if I had spent $20 I would have felt more disappointed. The game is cute and there's a lot of good in it, but the hints are not especially helpful and some things are very frustrating. I don't see being able to replay once I finish all the cases.

Really not one of my favorite hidden object or "investigation" games. (The investigation tag seems incorrect--unless you consider "Where's Waldo" investigation, there's no gathering of clues or putting together conclusions?) Very linear and straightforward, which is often rather annoying, as you get no choice which of the several (all underwhelming and awkwardly-written) plotlines you're shuffled off to between cases. Also, analyzing the writing feels strange, since it's all rather shallow, but it's weird that we're creating changes in the timeline that are right out of a "Minority Report" authoritarian dystopia, but for the greater good. If you're really, really starved for hidden object games with a target audience of middle-schoolers or younger, feel free to get it on sale. I have to finish the game for completion's sake, but it's really not enjoyable to play, and is quite monotonous.

I tried really hard to like this game but I can't.
I am a fan of hidden object games and I thought this one had a new twist on it but I was wrong.
There are no choices, the game feels like a huge tutorial full of repetition and it gets super boring really fast.
It tries to lead you trough a story while you find the one specific thing in the map to continue.
You really don't solve any puzzles or mysteries, you just obey to what the game wants you to do next.
I only finished this game because of the achievements, which were absolutely not fun to get because you needed to wait for the game to do the little "cut scenes" for you to continue.
Frustrating and absolutely not worth the full price.
They should have just made a visual novel instead of this try of a hidden object game.

Cool Idea, But i can t. I can t even.
Look i understand that you want to make the game fun but there should be in gameplay hints at what's heppening and not outgame ones.
Let me eleborate with a mild spoiler.
Level 3. You are pursuing somebody with a weapon and he is passing a Crosswalk. A car has already passed the crosswalk. you find the person. Next tick you the person has advanced to where he gets his next disguise and this one is really nmice. you somewhat see where he could have gone. Now the suspect is missing his weapon. you need to find where the weapon is. So you search between the last point and where he is now. -. Sorry you are wrong. the weapon is in the pickuptruck which was already crossed the crossing while our suspect was starting to cross. The car was unrelated before and should be still after. The worst Part ist the motion between ticks is so unrelated.

But the gerneral idea is nice.

Not Recommended – 5/10

At first glance, this game immediately made me think of hidden folks or where’s Waldo; but add a crime solving element, and I was sold. I quickly found that you are handheld through every element of the crime solving aspect, unable to jump around on your own to determine the crime’s time sequence. This, combined with some unnecessary mini games and obnoxious hot/cold system, makes it difficult to recommend one way or the other. Art and Easter eggs are awesome, but the story is weak and strangely tries to be more present than it needs to be. Imagine a Waldo book with a story plot…it’s really not needed. I think the idea behind this game is good, but the way it currently works, I think it should be labeled as a visual novel. The way the game is marketed, it’s misleading that there is any real puzzles or mysteries to be solved.