Renegade Game Studios Announces New Mystery Puzzle Game Series CRIMES & CAPERS
Renegade Game Studios has announced a new series of games called the Crimes & Capers series. The first two titles come from designers Juliana Moreno Patel and Ariel Rubin and combine murder mystery parties with escape room style puzzles. You’ll play with your friends and family (4-6 players) in order to solve the mystery (dressing up and roleplay are optional).
Crimes & Capers is a modern reimagining of the classic Murder Mystery Party Game by designers Juliana Moreno Patel and Ariel Rubin. Players each take on distinctive roles, and will need to share information from their personal journals, solve escape room style puzzles, figure out how to unlock more information, and use everything they have uncovered to ultimately solve the overarching mystery!
The first two games in the Crimes & Capers series are High School Hijinks and Lady Leona’s Last Wishes. The former title takes players back to 1998 as you try to figure out who framed Romi for doing some mysterious act.
Welcome to 1998…. Romi’s been framed! As the senior leaders of Blair High School, you have gathered the passed notes from today to see if you can figure out who framed Romi. If you don’t figure it out, she will be expelled!
Crimes & Capers: High School Hijinks is a cooperative game where you and a group of friends will take on the roles of 90s high school students and work together to solve the mystery. No special skills or prior knowledge are required. Read notes and solve puzzles to unlock Romi’s locker, then figure out who framed her!
Lady Leona’s Last Wishes will teleport players back to 1919 as you and other beneficiaries work together to find the late Leona’s treasure.
Who gets the fortune? It’s 1919 at the Langford Estate. Lady Leona has died and absolutely no one is sad about it. She was forever threatening to write people out of her will. Now that she is finally gone, her closest family and favored servants have gathered for the reading of her will. But Leona always loved two things: Puzzles and Making Life Difficult.
Crimes & Capers: Lady Leona’s Last Wishes is a cooperative game where you and a group of friends will take on the roles of polished high society folks and hard working servants who need to collaborate to solve the mystery and find Leona’s treasure. No special skills or prior knowledge are required. Read the notes, figure out puzzles, and unlock the answers to find out where Leona hid her fortune!
These sound like a lot of fun! I love puzzles and mysteries, so this sounds perfect for me. I’m definitely leaning towards though. The games are currently slated to release this summer with pre-orders live now for High School Hijinks and Lady Leona’s Last Wishes for $32.99 each.