Chronicles of Crime FAQ
57 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Game Content
- Are the easy, medium and hard options in The Power Behind difficulty settings?
- Do you need information from earlier Power Behind chapters to solve a later chapter?
- Do you need to scan anything to unlock expansions you bought as physical boxes?
- Can you play a box in one language with the app set to another language?
- Do choices made in one chapter carry over to the next chapter or case?
- Are the three Power Behind episodes linked, and can I play them out of order?
- Why does the app show only three investigations plus the tutorial when the box advertises five?
Game Objective
Setup
- How do I start a scenario over from scratch instead of resuming it?
- If you finish one of three linked scenarios, should you clear the board before starting the next?
- Do I have to play the base game cases in a particular order?
- How do you unlock the Kickstarter premium and VR scenarios?
- Do you need the VR glasses to play, and are they part of the base game?
- Can one device send VR scenes to a second device?
- Can you show the scene to everyone with a TV, casting, or a second device?
- Can the game be played with five or six players?
- Can two phones run the same case at the same time?
How to Play
Discovering Locations, Characters or Special Items
Search for Evidence
- How many searchable crime scenes does a scenario have?
- How strict is the 40-second search: what may the viewer say, and can the group keep picking evidence cards afterwards?
- Does looking at a crime scene again cost game time?
- Can you use an evidence card the app never told you to take?
- Which items do you keep on the board after a scan, and what does a plain item description mean?
- How is DNA (or fingerprints) used in an investigation?
- Can the same kind of evidence be found at more than one location?
- Do you have to scan physical evidence before the scientist will discuss it?
- Can you combine found items to produce a new result, or use one item on another?
Time Passing and Special Events
- Are all scenarios timed, or can you take unlimited time?
- Can you lose a case, or do you only lose points?
- Can you prevent a timed event by solving the case before it happens?
- How do timed meetings and arrival times work when you travel to a location?
- How do you get the money drop done in the first Power Behind scenario to save the girl?
Ending — Solve the Case
- Do you need hard physical proof to solve a case, or is deduction enough to name the culprit?
- Can you go back to Scotland Yard and try to solve the case at any time?
- Do the conclusion texts of a case change depending on how well you answered?
- What do you scan to show the motive when the case has no motive card?
- Can you see the end-of-case questions before you finish the investigation?
- In Alice in London-Land, does the bonus question ask who or where Alice's sister is?
- How do you trigger the end of chapter 3 of The Power Behind?
- Where do you give your report to solve the case in At the Heart of Power?
- How do you get a score above 100?
- What do the green, orange and red answer colours mean in the final test?
General
- Can you pause a scenario and resume it later without losing progress?
- Is scenario progress saved per device or per account?
- If you replay a scenario, does the new run overwrite your earlier saved run?
- Can a different group replay the same case with the same copy of the game?
- Can you play Chronicles of Crime solo?
- Do I need to reset the game before selling it?
- Is the tutorial a real scenario or only a teaching run?
- Does Power Behind progress carry over between devices?