Things to do in Ostend: walk and solve

Sherlock Holmes murder mystery in Ostend runs from Leopold Park past Mercator towards Kursaal on the seafront. The James Ensor House and Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul also feature along the route. Your phone supplies the detective information while the city gives the case its surroundings. If you are comparing things to do in Ostend, this offers a walk with an activity your group can keep discussing between places. Let everyone follow the story and look around as you go, keeping both the investigation and the route part of the same shared outing rather than all attention remaining only on the screen throughout your time exploring the city together on foot.

The Ostend game allows at most four players to share one phone. Each person can read the information and offer an interpretation of what it means. Friends or colleagues can bring different ideas to the case, while a couple can make the walk a joint mystery. Give everyone time to follow the story before your team decides what it thinks. You guide yourselves and choose the pace on foot, keeping the activity in your own group’s hands. Sharing the information throughout the route helps the phone become a common tool for everyone, with the investigation staying a conversation rather than something only its holder follows as the rest of the team explores the city alongside them.

Allow around 1.5 to 2 hours for the Ostend game, played through the free Loquiz app. Its price is €19.95 per team: one phone, at most 4 players. You can start whenever you want, every day, within the 12-month validity. When arranging things to do in Ostend around other plans, give the complete walking case room in your day. Choose which phone your team will share and agree when to begin. The flexible start leaves that choice to your group, with the detective story giving the outing a defined activity to follow together as you explore the route on foot at a pace your team chooses for itself through the city.