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Release Date 2 January 2008
Release Type Freeware
Content Advisory None | None | Occasional, mild
Operating System Windows
Setting Fantasy
Genre Investigative
Story Original
Play Length Medium Length Game
Language English
Graphics 320x240, 16-Bit Colour
Downloaded 10,241 All Time

About

Join Red (the PI formerly known as Little Red Riding Hood) on a chase to solve a most terrible crime. With magical potions, sharp wits and a sweet pout, there is no telling where the chase may lead!

NOTE: 1.3B is up, adressing a bug that made it possible to get stuck in the endgame. Please get the new version for a much better game experience.

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Awards & Reviews

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AGS Awards 2008 Winner

AGS Awards 2008 Winner

Best Character Art
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AGS Awards 2008 Nominee

AGS Awards 2008 Nominee

Best Background Art
Best Original Story
Best Puzzles

AGS Panel Rating

A cute romp through several fairytale stories.

Pick of the Month

January 2008

Definitely the best game of 2008 so far at its release date! Once Upon A Crime has fabulous artwork, a fun story and very short skirts on Red Riding Hood! You play the part of Red as she turns Private Investigator to get to the bottom of the Big Bad Wolf mystery and explore this entertaining fairytale land

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By Mandle on 27 July 2015

I can't believe I forgot to comment on this game when I first played it:

This is one of the all-time AGS classics and MUST be played right now by every single person on the planet...

I'm just not quite sure which exact planet...But definately one of them...


By foxyfox666 on 9 February 2009

Hello, my name is Joel, from the french AGS forum.
I want to translate your game in french.
If you agree, send me an email to this address:

kaldaya@hotmail.fr

and I contact you. Thank you. :)


By Snarky on 23 March 2008

This is a polished game with very nice graphics and a fun premise. It features a decent amount of gameplay, and both story and puzzles make sense within the game.

You play as (no-longer-all-that Little) Red Riding Hood, and Red makes for a sympathetic heroine. You also meet a lot of other colorful characters taken from various fairy tales and children's books, and the game offers a cartoony, post-modern revisionism of these familiar faces (think [i]Wicked[/i], [i]Fables[/i], [i]Hoodwinked[/i], or [i]Enchanted[/i]). It is easy to see the fondness for the original stories.

However, the solutions to most puzzles seemed quite arbitrary to me, with little to indicate how to achieve particular tasks. This made the game an exercise in "guess-the-designer's-mind", which is difficult and not particularly enjoyable.

About two thirds of the way through, the story takes a sudden left turn, and this twist may not appeal to everyone.

The writing is mostly good, but there are a few examples of unidiomatic English.


By Ben304 on 19 February 2008

Wonderful game indeed. The graphics were nice and colourful, the puzzles were often clever, and the story was absolutely fantastic.

Thankyou.


By butters on 4 February 2008

An extremely enjoyeable game. It has a great concept, such an original story, adding a nice spin to some old fairytale stories and parts of this game had me in stitches. I just love how the characters from the fairytales have been given such a new, modern personality giving humour in some ways similar to the movie Shrek.

The graphics are great, the music is catchy and the characters are all well designed and everything fits together nicely.

The majority of the puzzles are all logical and were just challenging enough, though a few i really did struggle on but overall a very good game.


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