Once Upon a Crime is the latest creation from the Impossible Things Entertainment team. A lockdown creation filled with suspense, drama and murder. The team behind this ‘whodunnit’ experience usually hosts innovative mix of live music, theatre, circus, film, TV, digital, immersive experiences throughout London & Birmingham. 

Whilst they haven’t been able to do just that throughout lockdown, they have introduced Once Upon a Crime, a unique murder mystery with twists, turns and excitements around every corner. 

The experience starts 24 hours before you play when you receive an invite to White’s speakeasy establishment. This is the first part of your mystery and you must solve this as you may find it very handy very early on. Whilst hosted on zoom, you will go to many other places whilst being a detective. You do require Whatsapp & Facebook as outside tools to get the full experience. 

Once Upon a Crime has many interactive elements throughout and whilst its not an escape room, it takes inspiration from that. Many interactive elements are brought in to keep you engaged and engaged you must be in order to solve the case. With a large cast of people with very unique names, you need to work out who was behind this by going into the backstory of each of the characters. If you steer off path, you have trusty live experienced detectives who may or may not assist you along your journey.

Storyline & Themeing: 10/10
Simply incredible, they have managed to bring a fairytale world to real life with a dark underground vibe, taking you into the suburbs of a city. The level of details and backstories to each of the characters you meet along the way brings lots of humour, shock and mystery. The quality of the video visuals used were outstanding and really immersed you into the story. The use of clever names and their take on the theme will completely change your perspective on fairytales.