If you like the satisfying click of a logic puzzle falling into place, Hachette's Kronologic series has been one of the quiet gems of the last couple of years. The next case is a strange one. Kronologic: Babylon 2500 drags the deduction series out of the past and into a sci-fi future, and it is adding time travel to the mix.
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See how it worksKronologic is a sharp little deduction game for one to four players, first seen with Kronologic: Paris 1920 at Essen SPIEL 2024. You pick a spot, ask how many suspects were there at a given moment, and quietly piece together who did what and where before your rivals crack it. Babylon 2500, from returning designers Fabien Gridel and Yoann Levet, is the third entry, and it throws in a new dimension. Now you are not just working out the who and the where, but the when.
Cases lean on character-driven clues and sequences of symbols rather than fixed locations, and the studio says it has nudged the difficulty up for veterans who found the earlier boxes a touch gentle. Paris 1920 was well received as a modern, brain-friendly take on the deduction puzzle, so a harder, weirder follow-up is a tempting prospect.
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Set up your group for freeKronologic: Babylon 2500 is due to reach shops in September 2026. If your group enjoys a shared brain-teaser that packs down small, this is one to keep an eye on.
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