Also, tried running tests using console runner, but that failed horribly. Looks unrelated. Thought just to run console tool to see if it behaves dfferently.
ncrunch NCrunchTestCases.sln
NCrunch Console Tool v3.11.0.9
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[11:24:57.5097-?-1] Initialising UI Services
[11:24:57.5877-?-1] NCrunch Services Initialised
[11:24:57.6607-?-1] Publishing Event: [EngineModeSwitchedInUIEvent:Run all tests automatically [Global]]
[11:24:57.6627-?-1] Event [EngineModeSwitchedInUIEvent:Run all tests automatically [Global]] is being published on thread CoreThread to subscriber: ClientSettingsBlock.
[11:24:57.6717-?-1] Publishing Event: [EngineModesChangedEvent]
[11:24:57.6777-Core-4] Event [EngineModeSwitchedInUIEvent:Run all tests automatically [Global]] is being processed on Core thread with subscriber: ClientSettingsBlock.
[11:24:58.4409-Core-7] Loading NCrunch modules
[11:24:58.4509-Core-7] Loading module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Remco Software\NCrunch Console Tool\Modules\Gallio\nCrunch.Module.Gallio.crunchmodule
[11:24:58.465-Core-7] Loading module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Remco Software\NCrunch Console Tool\Modules\MSpec\nCrunch.Module.MSpec.crunchmodule
[11:24:58.4709-Core-7] Loading module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Remco Software\NCrunch Console Tool\Modules\MSTest\nCrunch.Module.MSTest.crunchmodule
[11:24:58.4759-Core-7] Loading module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Remco Software\NCrunch Console Tool\Modules\NUnit\nCrunch.Module.NUnit.crunchmodule
[11:24:58.483-Core-7] Loading module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Remco Software\NCrunch Console Tool\Modules\NUnit3\nCrunch.Module.NUnit3.crunchmodule
[11:24:58.4939-Core-7] Loading module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Remco Software\NCrunch Console Tool\Modules\XUnit2\nCrunch.Module.XUnit2.crunchmodule
[11:25:01.2669-Core-7] Framework description manager has loaded data for 6 test frameworks
[11:25:01.537-InitialisationQueueTask-14] Auto restoring NuGet packages for 'C:\work\projects\NCrunchTestCases\NCrunchTestCasesV3\NCrunchTestCasesV3.csproj'
[11:25:01.537-InitialisationQueueTask-4] Auto restoring NuGet packages for 'C:\work\projects\NCrunchTestCases\NCrunchTestCasesV2\NCrunchTestCasesV2.csproj'
[11:25:02.8183-InitialisationQueueTask-14] Loading project: C:\work\projects\NCrunchTestCases\NCrunchTestCasesV3\NCrunchTestCasesV3.csproj
[11:25:02.8183-InitialisationQueueTask-4] Loading project: C:\work\projects\NCrunchTestCases\NCrunchTestCasesV2\NCrunchTestCasesV2.csproj
[11:25:07.2896-InitialisationQueueTask-4] ERROR (Load): Error occurred during load of component at C:\work\projects\NCrunchTestCases\NCrunchTestCasesV2\NCrunchTestCasesV2.csproj: System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
at nCrunch.Module.NUnit.NUnitTestFrameworkUtilisationTypeIdentifier.RegisterFrameworkUtilisationTypes(IDictionary`2 utilisationTypesByFramework, ComponentUniqueName component, SettingsEngine settingsEngine)
at nCrunch.Core.TestManagement.TestFrameworkDescriptionManager.(TestFrameworkDescription[] , SnapshotComponent )
at nCrunch.Core.ComponentLoader.TestFrameworkResolutionHelper.GetTestFrameworksSelectedByComponent(SnapshotComponent component)
at nCrunch.Client.ComponentLoader.SnapshotComponentLoader.CreateComponentFromXml(FilePath projectFilePath, ParsedBuildXml projectXml, FilePath solutionFilePath, String[] additionalFilesToIncludeAtSolutionLevel, Boolean isLoadedFromFile, VisualStudioVersion vsVersion, ComponentUniqueName componentName, TaskSettings componentTaskSettings, Exception parseException, String targetFramework)
[11:25:07.2896-InitialisationQueueTask-14] ERROR (Load): Error occurred during load of component at C:\work\projects\NCrunchTestCases\NCrunchTestCasesV3\NCrunchTestCasesV3.csproj: System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
at nCrunch.Module.NUnit.NUnitTestFrameworkUtilisationTypeIdentifier.RegisterFrameworkUtilisationTypes(IDictionary`2 utilisationTypesByFramework, ComponentUniqueName component, SettingsEngine settingsEngine)
at nCrunch.Core.TestManagement.TestFrameworkDescriptionManager.(TestFrameworkDescription[] , SnapshotComponent )
at nCrunch.Core.ComponentLoader.TestFrameworkResolutionHelper.GetTestFrameworksSelectedByComponent(SnapshotComponent component)
at nCrunch.Client.ComponentLoader.SnapshotComponentLoader.CreateComponentFromXml(FilePath projectFilePath, ParsedBuildXml projectXml, FilePath solutionFilePath, String[] additionalFilesToIncludeAtSolutionLevel, Boolean isLoadedFromFile, VisualStudioVersion vsVersion, ComponentUniqueName componentName, TaskSettings componentTaskSettings, Exception parseException, String targetFramework)
[11:25:07.3591-Core-7] All projects have been loaded
[11:25:09.1685-?-1] Reporting engine execution results
[11:25:09.4326-?-1] Shutting down engine
[11:25:11.064-?-1] Returning result: BuildFailure