CRIMO
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, CRIMO! Developed by the innovative team at SMACH S.A.S., this Board game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 12+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 26th August 2019, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 14th October 2023.
Are you a fan of Board, Puzzle, games? Then CRIMO is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of CRIMO
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How Much Does CRIMO Cost?
Good news! You can download CRIMO on your iOS device absolutely free!
CRIMO Release Date
Eager to know when CRIMO first graced the App Store? It was launched on 26th August 2019.
When Was CRIMO Last Updated?
The latest version of CRIMO was updated on 14th October 2023, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download CRIMO?
To get started with CRIMO, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into CRIMO
Love deduction games? Use your logic to solve puzzles and investigate gruesome murder cases! Analyze clues and follow the trail to send those criminals to justice!
Join the CRIMO special unit, specialized in logical crime investigations. After a short training at the Police Academy, you will be sent to lead gruesome murder cases in Miami and New York, by applying pure logic to solve puzzles. Collect clues, analyze them, confirm evidence or reject false leads: you will cross-off all possibilities until you can designate the murder weapon, find out the motive and unmask the criminal. Are you ready to use your wits and deduction skills to fight crime?
Did the actress do it for revenge using a handgun as the powder on the pillow suggests?
Or maybe it was the politician, but did he use the knife or the chainsaw? Was it out of sheer madness or was it for power? for love? Or simply money? The next clue might be decisive…
CRIMO’s puzzles offer a fascinating cross-over between games of logic like sudoku and minesweeper, crosswords and criminal investigation board games. You will decode which squares to touch in the grid by following hints giving the sizes of blocks in each row and column. It’s a real mind challenge wrapped in a fun experience where you need to think and use your brains to succeed.
Avoid making mistakes or you will take a punch, suffer a scratch or even take a bullet! Thank god you can replenish your health by eating a burger, hot-dog or… how about a donut?
You will learn easily, progress rapidly and quickly get hooked! It’s ultra addictive!
FEATURES:
- Tens of criminal cases in two iconic cities: Miami and New York
- Hundreds of grid puzzles to solve by logic and deduction
- Dynamic investigation board where your searches spread out and interconnect like a spider web as in the most exciting detective flicks
- Get acquainted with Jamie, police officer, Jim, forensic expert as well as the Chief of Police, Madam District Attorney, the firefighter…
- Special challenges: burning crime scenes with clues going up in smoke, FBI-restricted access zones where your hands are tight…
- Works on iPhone 5s and above and iPads
Time to solve puzzling crimes by logic & deduction! PLAY NOW!
Created by ooblada & CHQL
Please note that CRIMO is completely free to play, but virtual currency can be purchased with real money to get some in-game items such as extra lives, health boosters or instant analyses. If you don’t want to use this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device’s settings.
Terms of use:
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What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of CRIMO updated on 14th October 2023:
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
User Reviews on CRIMO
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Love the game play and range of puzzle difficulties. But probably about 30-40% of the time the ads (either required at the end of levels or ones for gaining extras) freeze and glitch so Im stuck. The only way out is to close the app and we lose all progress in that level and the coffee used to start it. We have a good internet connection so we dont know what else could be causing this issue repeatedly.
How come the daily challenges were free for us just last week and now we have to pay?? Maybe one to two months ago, they also had no option of watching an ad to restart and we would have to pay. Never spending a dime on this game! We won’t lie, we are upset. However, we’ll still be playing this stupid game!
Glad you run out of points or we would be playing this game all day.
Overall, it is a very fun game. With that being said, we do have a few issues. When you make a wrong move, it takes MOST of your life, but when you collect food to refill your life it takes so much bc it BARELY refills life. Also, there is NO way to receive coins unless you buy them. So after you run out of coins that the game offers you, the only way to try again on a level after you die is by watching an ad but the issue with that is the fact that your life refills with less than 10%. The game is cheap, but we refuse to pay for coins in a game when we have so many financial responsibilities in real life.
But why are all the dead people dark skinned? We understand Im at the beginning of the game but we do not want to continuously see people of color as the murder victims.
The game is fun. Cute. We liked playing it. However the amount of ADS is absolutely ridiculous. We gave up after 2 days of this game just for that.
One of the better nanogram games we have found over the years. The murder mystery part isn’t really important at all and requires nothing of the player after they have finishe the grids. Myself, we went ahead and paid for the $2 subcription for unlimited display blockers since the larger ones get to confusing. Otherwise it doesn’t cost a bunch of money. We’ll cancel& delete the app once we are done, if it had been a set fee of $5-$10 dollars we would keep it though. The one tthing that we wish was that they had the total grid size displayed, that would save some tedious counting.
Fun game, but holy crap it makes our phone overheatand like, really fast.
Hate that the tutorial makes it seem like you can use as many of the cones as you want. We liked playing the dailys because it was exciting. Now, you have to use coins to replay levels. Its fun, but Im not about to spend money to buy coins or lives or ad free.
The concept of this game seemed so fun until we played the first three minutes and was trying to skip through everything as fast as possible. It teaches you every single thing including all of the strategies to play a perfect game your first try instead of letting you try anything naturally. Oh and then we got the intrusive ad and deleted it. Im not going to play a game that hand feeds us everything like im a child and then immediately hit us with an ad the first time it lets you loose. Theres no way to skip the tutorial and we just hate them. We dont care if we fail we just want the option to learn on our own. Theres no point now if we know all the strategies. Even if it gets more complicated if your going to give us the answer the puzzle takes 30 seconds to complete instead of 10.
We love this game, the only issue we have is there is no way to get more coins. You have starting coins when you get the app but once you use them you are out unless you pay for them. Maybe if you have full health and no use for the food, you should get coins for the food since there is no use for them with full health. It also sometimes will not let us click on the levels so we have to restart our game in order to click on them.
We have no problem with games that rely on ad revenue but this one constantly shows ads that lock the app up and force you to crash it leading to all progress on current puzzles being lost. Which is a shame because we like this take on these puzzles. Makes this unplayable.
Too big you cant save your energy.
We love this game! Our two favorite things solving puzzles and catching the bad guys. Logic and deduction, so fun.
We like the game a lot. What we noticed over the past week of playing is that we can play the game with a weak internet connection (perhaps airplane mode even) but then our pop-up helpers for the game are ads to buy in game currency. This was the only game we could play the last two days when we lost power and cell coverage was messed up (hurricane Ian) so we did experience frustration of needing to restart a whole batch of puzzles when we ran out of health due to mistakes. However after full cell service was restored, the pop-up helpers come sporting offers to watch ads for help. And if we’ve just run out of cones, a cone helper comes up and if Im low on health, a health restorer comes by. Do we like watching ads?! Nope. But after spending thousands on other free games, Ill watch the ads. If you like this type of game, the developer makes another like this without much story, called Riddle Stones. And if you like Crimo but want more story, Crimo Stories has a bunch of reading / background story. We found these games because this developer originally made Treasure Madness, the most epic game on Facebook for years. We were so sad to see it go. We hope to see them revisit a similar app for mobile. In the meantime, hooked on this one.
The game itself is fun but after every puzzle its one add after the other. We know you can pay to get rid of them but its truly just absurd.
We love this game but it only allows you to make 2 mistakes before you fail the level. This is especially a problem for levels where there are 6 grids. We dont think there needs to be an over abundance but enough to be reasonable!
210708_155006 Admittedly… We are ADDICTED to this Game! We LOVE the Simple Logic! It keeps us coming back for MORE! ///
Forensics says they can prove the killer was an elderly grandmother. The crime happened when she was burgling a house. The problem is, we’ve stalled on identifying the weapon. She either used POISON or a MOLOTOV COCKTAIL. It’s tricky to tell them apart :)
Love the puzzles and story. Concept is nice. As usual, takes a ton of energy to play puzzles, so you can only work a few. One mistake depletes almost entire life and the food to replenish barely adds life back. Also, limited cone markers to mark squares is unrealistic. 50 really?! One difficult puzzle uses them up quick. We find myself taking a screenshot and work it by hand, then go back to game and fill in the correct answers. It is really fun for a few minutes, until you run out of energy and cones that of course you can purchase. Ads are looooong and frequent, at least it is fairly inexpensive to purchase ad free.
This is a fun logic game. Visually pleasing brain exercise. Beware though, once you pass the trial stages you will soon realize that this is not even a pay to win, this is a pay to play. You have to buy stars to heal because errors hit you like a freight train. Like 1-2 errors and youre dead. We wish there was a way to get stars through ads periodically. Not sure we will keep going after we use these last stars.
Its nice to try out but the pop ups are frustrating. We would rather buy the game and be done. No hidden cost.
We love playing this game. Sadly, when we got to case #7 in Miami the game seemed to forget its own premise. It stopped revealing clues which is the main way you make forward progress in the gameplay and solve cases. Bummer. Maybe theyll be a fix someday.
They say it’s free to play, but do you really want to spend your free time being drained by these people? You have limited energy, cones, health draines, etc. Feels like a pack of beggars clawing at you while you play. Enjoy!
We love a good mystery game but this one really annoyed us. The core gameplay (at least to me) is simple enough to understand, so why do we need the tutorial to hold our hand though so many levels for us to actually start playing? It made us so frustrated that we couldnt get out of the tutorial even though we understood everything already. We wish there was a way to skip it if you chose too.
This is a fun game. We play daily. Not giving it 5 stars for a few reasons. The clues, weapons, motive, and suspects never change. Boring and pointless since we should be allowed to guess in these categories, rather than just waiting for the process of elimination. Also, there are no incentives. Extra coins or extra lives for passing milestones. (Actually, we’ve no idea what the coins are for.) At this point when we have a wrong guess we just stop the game rather than having points taken off. We wind up with a perfect score for every case. Good for us, but boring and predictable. Base game is fun, but could be a better experience overall.
We love these types of puzzle games but one of our big complaints is the limit on cones to make off spaces. It doesnt make sense to us to limit these. We also do not get energy back after watching adds which are supposed to restore 50 energy.
As @Mindstein reported – there’s a rather annoying bug that causes you to get logged out of your Mac in the middle of playing (unclear exactly what triggers it, but it has happened to us serveral times over the last several days) Other than that, we find it fun – though we think you can expect to put some money into it in order to buy "coins" to use for hints and for buying "cones". We wish there were an additional device one could use to mark potential "good" spots (cones are used for marking "bad" spots – and you don’t get them back if you pick them up) – one could then try out several possible combinations before committing to one…
A good game built around logic puzzles, but we have NEVER been besieged by so many ads. We are quitting after calculating how much time is wasted because of ads. A good game ruined by greed.
We love logic puzzle games, and we thought this would be fun to try out because its a murder mystery/logic puzzle combo. However, some of the mechanics seem pointless. Having a limited number of cones is the weirdest thing we’ve seen. Cones or xs, are used in every logic puzzle game and are normally necesssry to complete the game so you know which squares not to mark/which squares you can rule out. Because of this, only giving us a certain number of cones seems pretty dumb. The other thing is the health bar. We understand why its there, but its far too easy to accidentally swipe over the wrong box or put a cone where there shouldnt be one if you forgot to switch back. Overall, the concept was good, but the execution was mediocre at best.
Read the title. This game is exactly what it advertises, so if you thought it looked cool youd be 100% right. Download it now.
If youve ever played Nonograms, thats what this is, wrapped in a detective story and with all the usual ads/p2p gimmicks thrown in. There are limited cones (markers to identify fields that arent active) and if you run out you need to wait, watch an ad or pay for more. Theres a subscription option. The mystery part is pretty underwhelming tbh. Solving a puzzling gives you a clue which you then have to click on and either wait or pay/watch to speed up the analysis on so it can eliminate a weapon, motive, or suspect. Theres no actual deduction on your part. Just an additional opportunity for them to try and get you to pay them. Look, its playable. Its fine if its what you want to play, but honestly, Id just go get one of the free or one time purchase Nonogram apps. Youll probably get better puzzles without the gimmicks trying to get you to spend more money.
Its a really great challenging game but in big squares its really difficult and outstanding that you dont have unlimited security cones plus no chance to select wrong! In our opinion,for next update Give unlimited cones for big squares or at least give player more chances to select wrong! If not it would be kinda impossible to solve it without a booster Thanks(if you read this )
We liked the game but hated the amount of ads.
Give us the option to earn coins or at least watch videos to earn free coins instead of paying for them please! Otherwise its a great game.
But still definitely needs improvements.
We think this is one of the more challenging versions of picture logic games out there. However, the ads sometimes have no exit currently its the one for Stihl chainsaws. So you cannot proceed past that ad, and must quit. Every time. This has happened before with a different ad, and really ruins the game play.
We stopped playing bc while the frequency of ads, and the duration of the ads detract from gameplay and concentration, we finally gave up when the stihl ad loops continuously and you cant exit.
Please cut down on the amount of bubble that pop up offering a video to help a stuck player. Its way too frequent, sometimes coming seconds after the previous one. It eats into the flow of solving a puzzle and (for us personally) is a source of frustration. Let us be stuck for a little bit. That makes solving the puzzle that much more rewarding.
The gameplay is so much fun we love the puzzle type riddle mystery gameplay of it but we are bored by the same suspects over and over again we feel like there should be some variety in the suspects for each case because eventually your going to have all the suspects used up and it kind of makes no sense for the person to commit a crime twice after the fact you solved the case.
So when asked if you want to refill your energy (which is ridiculously expensive) the yes and no button are very close. We accidentally pressed the yes and there was no failsafe button for an are you sure type of question to make sure we didnt waste 72 of our coins on energy that recharges on its own. The coins cost real money and now im never getting that back. Screw this game, never making another purchase.
Its the perfect combination of soduko and … We dont know. Its just fun, the graphics are clean and interesting, the story is fun, and the music is groovy. It would be nice to not use up so much energy for each set/ start full with more; Im never going to pay to play more, but Id pay to solve a difficult puzzle. It just means we step away from the game till our energy is full again. Customer support is fast and friendly; our initial review comment with 1 Star because we were having issues with the app. We got a response right away and the problem is gone. Thanks!
We are on Miami case 11 15/63 and no matter what it wont move on. We have three stars on the case but it wont move past. There are no more stars to get but the next puzzle wont open up. Its very frustrating as we dont really enjoy the New York puzzles. Unless this is fixed soon Im going to give a one star review and delete the app.
We’ve been playing this game for months. We love the number cross style game, and this is the first one with that mechanic that doesnt end up spitting out a picture and just sticks to the puzzle aspect, which we love. We made our first purchase two days ago, and when we logged in today, almost all of our progress was gone. It will take us three months to get back to where we were! And Im not putting any more money in to this game! Not interested. What a failure on their end and a total disappointment on ours. Also, the gameplay is set up to be way too slow. It costs too much energy to start a game, so the gameplay is haltingly slow. Anyone who doesnt already love the game wont get into it because theyll quit in frustration- easy fix would be to credit back so many energy points for winning with 2 stars, 3 stars, etc.
This is dumb. Why am we going to bother trying to solve cases when we dont get paid for them? Am we trying to solve cases out of the goodness of our heart or something? Im not shelling out real money for fake coins. Pay the player for solving cases.
The update was supposed to stop the tutorial from freezing the game and it did not. Very frustrating.
We love this game! And the development team is outstanding with listening and responding to your concerns. Yes, theyve had an issue getting Halloween out but they have been persistent and continually in contact via email with each update! Keep it up! Great job!
The ONLY problem we have with this game is that we can only play for 5 mins at a time (IF THAT!!!!!). It takes SOooooo long for the energy to refill that just as Im ready ready to kick back, relax, & settle in, playing a fun game then Im out of energy. We are NOT going to spend the money yall are asking for THAT often. We would occasionally (just as we do w/ other apps), but at the rate yall want it, Im not gonna give a penny. Bc YALL are making it need to happen waaaaaaay too often. {**A Little Word to the Wise: IF yall wanna build the game up, allow others to feel its worth their while, want us to recommend the app, etc., THEN this NEEDS to be changed.} we’ve already contemplated deleting it & have Only had it FOR TWO DAYS!….. That being said, we will keep it, to see if (& reeaaaally hoping there is) theres any changes made for the positive.
We actually have no issues with the energy needed. We typically only use our phone for games in short spurts anyways. This one thing this game needs is.. Substance. Your current case has a photo of the victim… We think. It never actually says that. When you go into the case, it kind of seems like a stereotypical board you see in cop shows. Pin a bunch of clues, tie string connecting them etc.. But theyre just random images in this game that makes absolutely no sense to anything. The puzzles are just random designs. Makes the puzzles harder in a way, which is good, but again, no substance to them. Then you figure out the killer, motive, and weapon. You do this by gathering clues in the puzzle. Well they tell us theyre clues, if they didnt it would just be a guess. Theres nothing explains the clue, how its relevant to the case youre solving etc. Just have it analyzed. After 10 minutes and it will eliminate a suspect for some reason or another. Rinse and repeat until only one suspect, motive and weapon are left. Then you see a fake newspaper with a photo of your killer behind bars. We just knew it was the rebel who killed that guy with a Molotov cocktail because of money problems.. Or something like that. All in all, its entertaining for a few days, but its not going to be anything too many people play for more than a couple days. It just all feels unfished. Hopefully this gets taken to heart, this is a great concept that we think could be pretty big.
Just did update for Halloween and it keeps crashing! Please fix!!!!! Will update our rating once fixed Update: they fixed the crash. This game is pretty awesome Do we get to keep the Halloween levels we have already played? Like we want to see the Halloween section even after its done :)