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Im a couch detective.
I love watching true crime shows and yelling at my TV in frustration about who the obvious killer is.
Now, The Woodlock University investigation game by Detective Box gives me the opportunity to start sleuthing for real.
What Is Detective Box?
Detective Box offers investigation games with immersive experiences.
Its like slowly making your way through a boxset instead of binging a show in a single sitting.
While you might want to settle in for a full day of crime-solving, we played over three evenings.
Id recommend activating your account ahead of time as we had issues getting the verification email to come through.
You cant play until you do that, so it delayed our planned play session.
The digital portal gives you questions to answer, and in doing so steers you in the right direction.
Having said that, there are things about the digital portal I wish were more intuitive.
Once youve interviewed someone, thats it.
The search function was not what I thought it would be, either.
Here, things are different.
We eventually resorted to the hint system, and you know what the answer was?
Because it was a historical piece of knowledge that we could find for ourselves.
And it only gets better from there.
The obvious course of action is usually the right one.
Our next stumbling block came in the second box.
We couldnt understand it,even submitting a help ticket presuming it was a glitch.
Then we figured it out.
This unintended puzzle is a symptom of how Detective Box works.
It challenges you to think for yourself in ways few games of this ilk tend to.
Crime Doesnt Pay, But You Still Have To
Detective BoxsWoodlock University investigation retails for 89.
But given you might only play it once, its an asking price worth taking into consideration.
There is currently a launch offer of 20 off, so you could purchase it for 69 instead.
