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Our Unsolved Case Files review takes a look at a murder mystery game that has you and your family or friends freeing an innocent man and catching the real killer. Read on for our full review! Story If you're obsessed with true crime and crime drama TV shows like me, Unsolved Case Files - Harmony Ashcroft is right up your alley. With this game, you become an investigator tasked with solving a 1998 murder that originally put the wrong suspect in jail. The Harmony Pledge is our commitment to help all children at Ash Croft to develop ten characteristics for themselves, that will set them up for the future. We want them to be: Please note: I include a few spoilers about each game below. If you just want to know my final thoughts on the games, go ahead and skip to the ending!

I do appreciate being able to reset the game for friends to try or family to work through later. I like that the Unsolved Case Files series has a couple of family-friendly options, so families who want to get accustomed to this type of gameplay can do so without worrying about more adult themes and imagery such as bloody knives or suicide. Harmony Ashcroft's case was "solved" when the murder originally took place, but it was solved incorrectly. The prime suspect at the time went to jail for over two decades after being wrongly convicted. Now that you're on the case and reexamining evidence, it's up to you to find evidence that frees the man framed for murder, Bones McBride, and put the real killer behind bars.

As mentioned, the game is suitable for those aged 14 and up. You could play it alone if you wanted, but, as we found, more heads are better. Four seemed like a good number, but you really could play it with as many as you want for more brainpower. With the four of us playing, it took us around two hours to solve the mystery. Price/Value

But in November of 1994, Jamie apparently committed suicide by jumping from the school’s 6th floor, out the only window in the newspaper workroom on the Friday of the school’s football state championship game. She killed herself during the school’s 10 AM pep rally, and conveniently only 5 people in the entire school were not in the gym when the all-school picture was taken, giving us our list of suspects. This ethos is at the heart of the academy and contributes to the shared goal of ensuring that our children move on to the next stage of their education as confident, competent learners. We want the children to be happy and excited about coming to school to learn and to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding across a wide and varied curriculum. Though she is still writing for Android Authority, she went on to start writing for MakeUseOf, KOINO IT Solutions, and, of course, Review Geek. Unsolved Case Files is an entertaining game once you get going. At first, you may feel a bit lost, but once you start diving in and connecting the dots, it is a rewarding experience. This was not a failure because I’ve forgotten how to read through witness interviews, evidence photos and person of interest statements. This is because at the core of Unsolved Case Files: Jamie Banks, the logic involved in the details of her murder literally doesn’t make sense.We will then build onto the ACE curriculum the Golden Threads of Learning as we widen their vocabulary and oracy skills, help them develop a love of reading and broaden their cultural experiences. But on this night? Pour a glass of wine, clear the kid toys off of the kitchen table, and prepare for a couple hours’ worth of working together to solve a fictional crime. When you first open the box and start pulling things out, you already feel like a detective getting ready to dive into a cold case. The included documents are contained in a file folder with a name — ASHCROFT, Harmony — and a case number. But working through the second and third objectives is what made Unsolved Case Files: Jamie Banks turn sour. We felt it was a major stretch to come up with the logic behind the answer to the second objective, and the third objective isn’t just silly, it’s broken.

On May 8th, 1998, Harmony and her fiancé Christian went to their wedding rehearsal dinner in Riverdale, Indiana with family and friends. After an argument at dinner, Christian went out to run an errand, and Harmony ended up dead.

The best part of the game is the “AHA!” moments. On the second objective, we were about to hit the hint button when my son blurted out: “Look at this ! It matches the information found on which means this suspect was lying!” Sure enough, entering those two pieces of evidence moved the game along, and he had a huge beaming smile from having solved that part of the mystery.

When she’s not writing, you can usually find Sarah baking something delicious, hiking up a mountain, or playing video games. That said, I don't know how you could present an unsolved case that was more difficult to solve and more like a true cold case without it being too difficult to be enjoyable. The Harmony Ashcroft Case was also the first game from Unsolved Case Files, so it's entirely plausible that there's a wider range of cases now that vary in difficulty. Overall, the quality of the case materials is excellent. The included documents are presented well with everything fairly easy to read and understand. For the case received, an age range of about 13+ is appropriate, depending on a family’s level of tolerance for hearing stories of violent murder. In April 2020, she started writing for Android Authority, covering listicles, helpful how-to's for Android devices, and content on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.With the Cold Case games it just comes down to being smart about the details. You’ve got to be a real eagle eye to catch some of the stuff being thrown around in the Unsolved Case Files games and that doesn’t feel great as a player when you were paying attention to the details and instead, you should have caught something semi-random in one of the pieces of evidence. Sarah has an Associate of Arts from Collin College and a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Creative Writing concentration from Nicholls State University. One of those true crime co-op games? Phew. I thought you wanted to play one of those rules-heavy games in the big boxes downstairs!”