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Crossword City Chronicles

33% positive of 12 Steam reviews

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Released
2021
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Trailblazer Games.

About the game

Play as a 1950s reporter investigating crimes by using your word building skills to interview, interrogate, convince, deceive & debate your way to a solution! Draw letters tiles onto a rack, then place them on the board to make a word that connects with those already placed to advance the plot.

Tagged by players

  • Spelling
  • Word Game
  • Typing
  • Detective
  • Text-Based
  • Investigation
  • Mystery
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Puzzle
  • Story Rich
  • Comedy
  • Historical

What players say

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    The game has a really nice idea to combine word puzzle with investigation, ... But currently there are some downsides, that hopefully will be fixed in the future. Pros: 1. Nice overall idea 2. Relaxing music Cons: 1. The translation to german is not good, especially with the plural endings. 2. Even the english version accepts words, that does not exist (e.g. "saba") and vice versa. 3. The tutorial is to small and do…

    1.6 h played when written. 7 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    As the journalist in the game, you are going around the town to investigate 30 different crime cases. It seems there is only one journalist in the town, and the other one is just busy criticising your work. The entire game has the same characters that commit multiple crimes, but only one journalist can solve the cases and is so powerful that he or she can even arrange police protection for some witnesses. Criminals…

    21 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.

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