Bow Street Runner
Categories: Adventure, Flash, Free, Games, Online, Point'n'click
Bow Street Runner is a new game designed by LittleLoud for Channel 4, which leads the player into the murky world of Georgian London to solve mysterious crimes.
Bow Street Runner is set in London’s Covent Garden in the 1750s, and depicts a time when crime and vice in the city had hit such levels that the locals magistrates began to introduce the first instances of physical policing of law and order.
Each episode (5 in total) of the game will lead the player to explore different crime scenes, collecting evidence, solving puzzles, interviewing characters and presenting the case to the magistrate for judgement. Will Fielding’s fledgling police force gain the public’s trust through successful convictions of hardened criminals? Only if the player, as Fielding’s key Runner, can prove who did it…
Bow Street Runner is based on the Channel 4 five-part series City of Vice.
Bow Street Runner is designed to be historically accurate, and therefore the game’s content and its setting may not be suitable for younger players!
Update: 03-13-08. Episode 2 is now available to play!
Update: 03-20-08. Episode 3 is now available to play!
Update: 04-01-08. Episode 4 is now available to play!
Update: 04-08-08. Episode 5 is now available to play!
current rating 4.40
anyone playing?
first
loading, loading, loading.
its taking ages to load and all i can see is a black square
good game, love the story!
ok, heres what ive done so far…
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i cant turn around the room!
loading….
I can’t seem to succeed at stealing the watch… any hints?
Brilliant, but the ‘drag along a line’ mechanic is exactly why I hate playing Trauma Center…
Neat game but too frustrating to play without an optical mouse. My cr*ppy ball&chain mouse on an equally cr*ppy mousepad can’t keep up with the swift and precise movements required for some of the game’s content.
I guess it’s time to go shopping!
Just follow the gold arch thingy
I’m having a lot of trouble stitching up the harlot. Hints?
Question:
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Anyone got thethe sequence of evidence I keep getting it wrong on the connection to Thomas??
Drongo-
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How to do the “arch” puzzles:
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Harlot stitching hints:
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Hope that helps.
Evidence at the end:
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Barbie, about the eavesdropping:
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After I click on the harlot’s wound, it just says SUCCESS! and then I can’t seem to do anything else… any help?
I have cable connection but experienced some major lag especially during the harlot part. I put quality on low and had no improvements, only worse graphics. Any help?
this game doesn’t work for me. still i see “loading” again and again. wtf..
Truly a beautiful game. Can’t wait for the rest of the episodes. Still playing ^^
tofunaga:
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Abu: I also saw “Loading” multiple times. after about the 4th one, it suddenly got really slow, and then when that one finished, the game finally started.
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Finished thanks heaps Gena and Barbie
Gena, you rock with your comments…. anyone know when the next episode is coming out?
Thursday 6th March the first full episode will be released.
is anybody else having problems while loading the game?
i also have problems while loading the games.
it load and load and at the end of the line during 2 seconds i can read loaded and then it disappear and loading again.
it’s happen when I save the girl harlot.
after i get threw stealing the wtch and it loads mulitple times and the game has not started yet
Thanks for all your feedback on our Bow Street Runner game and for helping us dig out all the bugs in the BETA version. Your input has been invaluable and the enthusiasm that we’ve had has really buoyed the team who are currently knee-deep in building the other four episodes. Episode one should now be totally fixed and is fully launched today so give it another go… and since you guys have already had a practice you should get through to episode two with no problems. In this fixed up version your esteem will be carried over to the other episodes… so if you want to be reminded when they’re going live simply leave your email address on the form at the bottom of the game page.
That’s it for now… good luck with stitching up the harlot!
Game takes forever to load
even with broadband
It’s not that bad; my major problem in episode 1 was the pickpocket challenge. I don’t suppose you can make the line-follow challenges more forgiving?
Otherwise, I really appreciate the level of atmosphere that this game. The period setting and dialog are well executed.
An interesting combination of mechanics used in Trauma Center and Phoenix Wright not only relates to the story, but provides a decent representation of the actual skills doing these tasks may require, which adds to the reality of the game.
Keep up the good work!
PS: a means to ‘save’, such at locale transitions, would be appreciated.
On to episode 2!
Is it just me or is episode two much harder than the previous? I can’t seem to get anywhere from the first scene. =/
Has anyone figured out how to get the nails out of the plank of wood? The center left and center back ones keep sliding back in on me.
Umm, that should read back left not center left.
Okay, someone give me a flipping hammer. Still can’t get those 2 nails to stop sliding back in. grrrrrrrrr!
Have reloaded about three times and still can’t get past the stupid nails. That’s enough frustration for me.
It’s a shame cause I loved playing the first episode.
When you want to take out the nails, click on each one until you hear a quirky noise. That should do it. It took me about 5 minutes to do it. Good luck all.
on Episode 1, I can’t get further than saving the harlot scene – screen just says loading but nothing is happening aaaggghhh. I have retried a couple of times, always with the same result – I really want to try ep 2!!
Thought I’d give this another try. I get the noise and I managed to get all the nails to stay up but I still can’t get under the board. Geez, this is frustrating!!!!
Is anyone else having trouble loading the third scene in the second episode? Have tried it several times. Get through the first 2 fine but the brothel scene doesn’t load – talk about frustrating – have to go through the first 2 scenes everytime I try it.
I love this game! Grabbing the watch and picking the lock weren’t too bad; but I can’t get all 3 wounds sewed up to save MY life!!! And to think I worked for over 14 years in hospitals….talk about humiliation!!!! LOL!
Yay! I completed Episode 2 and I provided the correct evidence. I’m not certain what the creators of the game did, but I finally got it to play in its entirety (up to this point, anyway). It takes a while to load on my computer, but completely worth the wait. I have the code for Ep 3 and I hope it will be available soon.
@ stupefyin…when you pull the nails up from the board they need to be pulled quickly (works basically the same way the fingers did at the beginning of the game) If you take too long the nails start to go back down. The board should move when all nails are lifted. Took me a few tries but the board will come loose. Hope that helps a bit.
Ok for Episode 2 evidence
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cheers
Episode 3 is now up.
I just finished the 3rd episode. Here’s a sort of walkthrough.
First scene, slum house:
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Pawnbroker’s shop:
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Gin’s shop:
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Distillery:
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Bow Street:
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Anyone finished it yet? It seems my evidence is not strong enough to arrest the bad guy.