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Chronicles of Crime: 1900 is a standalone cooperative detective game for 1–4 players, recommended for ages 14+, with cases lasting around 60–90 minutes at a medium-light complexity. As journalist Victor Lavel in Belle Époque Paris, players gather evidence, interrogate suspects and solve escape-room-style puzzles through deduction and storytelling.

About the Game

Paris, 1900. As Victor Lavel, a young journalist from a family of sleuths, you'll race from the Exposition Universelle to crime scenes across the city, gathering evidence, questioning suspects and cracking escape-room-style puzzles — safes, ciphers and maps — before the trail goes cold. A typical case plays like an interactive crime novel driven by the companion app.

Chronicles of Crime: 1900 is a cooperative game for 1–4 players, with cases lasting around 60–90 minutes. It's medium-light in complexity and recommended for ages 14+. Notable mechanics include deduction, storytelling and scenario-based play.

Published by Lucky Duck Games, it follows the original 2018 Chronicles of Crime and forms part of the Millennium Series alongside 1400 and 2400. It's fully standalone, using the same scan-and-investigate system but adding built-in puzzles and a hint-giving colleague, Charlotte, with subtle narrative threads linking all three games.

History

Released by Lucky Duck Games in 2021, Chronicles of Crime: 1900 builds on the app-assisted investigation system introduced in the original 2018 Chronicles of Crime. It forms part of the Millennium Series, a trio of standalone games set in 1400, 1900 and 2400 that share subtle connecting narrative threads.

This instalment casts players as Victor Lavel, a young Parisian journalist from a family of crime-solvers, and weaves escape-room-style puzzles into each scenario, with colleague Charlotte on hand to offer hints.

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Rules of Chronicles of Crime The Millennium Series 1900

  • Setup: open the companion app, choose a standalone case, read the introduction aloud and lay the case cards where everyone can reach them.
  • Roles: pick one app handler and one note-taker, but keep decisions shared; there are no fixed player turns.
  • Investigate: agree on a lead, scan the relevant location, suspect or evidence card, then read the app result and update your notes.
  • Search and question: inspect crime scenes for clues, question suspects about people, objects and timings, and revisit places when new facts unlock better questions.
  • Puzzles: when the app presents a safe, cipher or map puzzle, solve it as a group and enter the answer exactly as requested.
  • Objective and end: identify the culprit and explain the key motive, method and timeline in the final app questions; the case ends when you submit those answers and the app resolves the story.

Strategy

  • Follow the thread: chase the newest objective first; avoid scanning every card before the group has a reason.
  • Take usable notes: record names, times, places and who said what; most deductions come from conflicts between those facts.
  • Connect evidence: after finding an object, ask which suspect, location or puzzle it links to instead of treating it as isolated flavour.
  • Revisit smartly: return to earlier locations after a confession, alibi or new code changes what matters there.
  • Use Charlotte: spend a hint when the whole table is stuck for several minutes, not after the first failed guess.
  • Split puzzle work: have one player read symbols aloud, one test ideas and one check the app wording; this reduces careless entry errors without guaranteeing a solve.

Reviews

4.6 / 5
83 ratings on Amazon

Super

Nax

Super

Reviewed in Germany on 12 January 2026

Very prompt arrival!

Tina

This was a Xmas gift, I thought I had left it a bit late but it arrived as promised with no delay at all!

Reviewed in Canada on 11 December 2021

Just like an Agatha Christie mystery

JD

Really fun, imaginative, and takes you back in time

Reviewed in the United States on 17 February 2025

More reviews (2)

JEU EN ANGLAIS !!!!

Quentin Morgane

Jeu en anglais aucune information dans la description je vous le conseil pas

Reviewed in France on 13 August 2025

Jeu en ANGLAIS

Mélanie BOIVENT

Ce jeu est en Anglais donc injouable pour nous, ce n’ai pas clairement dit, sauf dans le tableau recapitulatif.

Reviewed in France on 26 December 2022