Linköping Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

About this experience

Linköping Cathedral is both the meeting point and the first stop, and the case moves outward from the churchyard into the surrounding streets. The walk passes the Castle and Cathedral Museum next door before heading through the older part of the centre on foot. It is a self-guided murder mystery game, with Linköping supplying the setting. The centre of Linköping is small and level, so the route asks for nothing more than comfortable shoes and a free afternoon. Teams are up to four people sharing one phone; larger groups split up and play as several teams, and going alone is a reasonable option too. Nobody leads the group and there is no fixed start, so you decide when to begin. Wet weather is the only real complication, since much of the route runs out in the open. How to play. Four steps and the first clue is waiting. Book the City Game. Check the instructions email. Download the Loquiz app. Start playing whenever you like. The case in front of you is the murder of Balthasar. Clues arrive as ciphers, photo tasks and interviews with digital characters whose versions of events drift apart. In the quiet streets around the cathedral hill those differences become hard to ignore. Several teams working the same case turn it into a competition, and that is what makes it useful for teambuilding. Take a break when you want one, come back to the same clue, and close the case in Linköping. The cathedral square makes an obvious place to meet up again.

Meeting point

Linköping, Linköpings domkyrka
S:t Persgatan, Linköping, Östergötlands län, 582 28, Sweden