What is this?! Konami making a game? Sure enough, a multiplayer murder mystery called Crimesight.
The wonders are not over yet. A new game from our Japanese friends, and it is not a New Football Game Online Performance Test. Crimesight is the name, a “mystery simulation game” in which two to four players have to figure out who the killer is… and who is the victim. Sherlock and his nemesis Moriarty are also there, because why not? Just slightly different than you are used to from them.
Crimesight is set in a futuristic London in 2075, a time in which crimes are predicted and prevented for about 90% through complex data analyses. Sounds great, but this game wouldn’t exist if it didn’t go wrong just once: a certain crime is predicted to endanger the entire world. An AI is being developed to prevent this: Sherlock.
Sooner or later, it turns out that another AI is lurking, and his name is – how could it be otherwise – Moriarty. In practice, that means two to four players have to solve a murder mystery – we’ll see how that all comes together later. Players seem to be split into two teams: the Sherlock side vs the Moriarty side. The Sherlocks must find out who the target is and keep him alive for four days, the others must give the perpetrator a weapon and arrange a one-on-one with the target.
Clue meets Among Us, or something. You can already experience how that works in practice, because a closed beta started immediately and will run until 11 July. You can register for it until July 10. There is no release date for Crimesight yet.
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