Concealment
It’s good. :) Watch out for the monster.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Read More: Best Detective Mystery Games.
Short, atmospheric horror experience. Get some creeps for your buck!
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Chinatown Detective Agency: Day One
‘‘There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.’’ - S.S. Van Dine
Chinatown, Singapore in the year 2032 - Amira Darma is the female protagonist operating her first day as a Private Investigator in a dystopian cybernoir world where she feels her detective skills can flourish outside of the financially crippled Criminal Investigation Department that she once worked for under the command of Superintendent Justin Koh.
The 3 Cases, characters and the puzzles
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
Read More: Best Detective Noir Games.
“Chinatown Detective Agency - Day One” is a prologue for the main game due sometime in 2021, and gives a first impression of what to expect.
In short: I found the game to be interesting and it’s definitely got potential - hence my thumbs up. But it still needs some a lot of work.
The low-down
CDA is a retro-styled cyberpunk/noir-themed whodunit which plays much like a classic point-and-click-adventure with some light elements of life-sim and puzzle-games. From what I hear it is strongly inspired by the Carmen Sandiego-franchise with its chasing after clues and travelling to places all over the world.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah
Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah
Nothing really grabbed me about this title. It was just average all the way through and quite boring. It’s certainly overpriced but might be worth a go on sale.
In a Nutshell
Classified Stories is a first-person adventure game with light puzzle and shooter elements.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Read More: Best Detective Indie Games.
Pretty good and atmospheric 1st person horror action/adventure. A good bit of searching, a bit of puzzle solving, and a proper amount of shooting, not too much to make this game more action than adventure. A couple of serious scares too. The game isn’t very long, but if you really look around everywhere it won’t be over in less than 1h. I paid 6.50 euro, which, for was a decent price for what the game has to offer.
There are a couple of small problems, which are getting ironed out by the devs. As mentioned by another reviewer, the flashlight isn’t working properly and can be a bit frustrating. Also, there’s a game breaking bug, which I reported, and hopefully the devs will fix in a later version. If you’re playing v1.0.3, make sure you don’t jump over the short part of the rock wall in front of the RV. Or, do it for fun, but save first.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
D.W. Dagger: Chapter One
A noir first-person murder mystery set in a gloomy 1947 Pacific Northwest city. Play as the renowned Detective D.W. Dagger to help solve his latest case. A violent murder, a possible suicide, and a handful of suspects.
Can you deduce what happened?
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As the first case in the upcoming series, test your deductive reasoning skills to piece together the truth of a new violent crime.
Taking inspiration from video games like “Gone Home” and “What Remains of Edith Finch,” as well as the board game classic “Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective,” you follow the narrative told through evidence found within the crime scene. As the lead detective, you must find suspects, determine which evidence helps your case and which hurts it, and ultimately, determine who committed the gruesome act.
This is a small, first case to give players an idea of what the larger series entails. It takes around 30-45 minutes to finish, depending on your detective skills! There is no randomized evidence or alternate paths, so once you complete it, that’s it.
Original Soundtrack by Corey Teply
Interrogation: You will be deceived
Interrogation: You will be deceived
Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived, is an amazing Visual Noir Novel with a compelling cast of characters that complement the rich story-driven detective-noir experience really well.
Playing as a lead detective trying to solve small-time crimes, gathering evidence, interrogating suspects and putting all the pieces of the puzzle together, it seems like just another day at the job.
*– [Real player with 50.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198329404521)*
Okay so first, let me be clear. I ABSOLUTELY love nearly every aspect of this game! However, due to strenuous replays and a little bit of lack of guidance, the tediousness has far outweighed my enjoyment which is saying a lot as I've really enjoyed everything else. This review is spoiler free aside from game mechanic discussions (fail conditions)
Pros:
Story - The story is truly engaging. Nothing's worse than a visual novel with a bad story. Interrogation gives you the sense of every character whether you've met them briefly or if they're your go to partner on the task force.
*– [Real player with 15.4 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198000248322)*
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## Blues and Bullets
### Game is dead like a beached whale.
My personal experience is probably a lot like most people on here. When a sale season hits, you go out a buy a crap-tonne of anything and everything that has had a price reduction on your wishlist. Like a hungry vacuum cleaner sucking up your wallet, purse, handbag, life savings, superannuation and assorted licorices, you just buy buy buy! without really looking at the forums or the latest info or even if the game is finished yet.
Which brings me to my point. This game wasn't finished, and never will be.
*– [Real player with 8.7 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198008683738)*
I do not really review episodic titles without having all episodes at hand with a complete walkthrough. With Blues and Bullets I did an exception as the title with its heavy noir atmosphere kept calling me. "A Crowd of Monsters" made an interesting and enjoyable game and I'm sure we'll hear more about them in the future.
In the center of the game we have Eliot Ness who is based on the real Eliot Ness - an agent who enforced the Prohibition in the early 20th century and was famous for being part of the so-called Untouchables, a group tasked with getting Chicago rid of its corruption and - most notably - putting Al Capone behind bars. Here, the story is fictionalised - Eliot has already retired when he gets a visit from one of Capone's henchmen. The kingpin wants to bury the hatchet and offers the agent a job most unexpected: finding his granddaughter as Sofia Capone was kidnapped.
*– [Real player with 6.2 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197986360343)*
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## Escape The Ordinary: Tales of Romina Manor
it was a great game. i like rpgmaker games so i enjoyed a lot.
Can be finished in one hour. Maybe 2 if u are an idiot cuz i am.
+ i like the little detais in the game. They made me smile.
but there are something to fix:
1- u can get into house by window without needing a key.
2- stucks when you go back your home then the other pleace
3- stucks when you go to bathroom for the second time
4- Song stucks in your mind when you see "Mirror mirror on the wall"
There was a lot of item that we can collect but some of them (a lot of them) was not usefull. I guess they are for confuse the player. Not sure…
*– [Real player with 1.6 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198881292459)*
Cool Mystery game wrapped in an easy to play RPG format. Love exploring the map and seeing Easter eggs and fun comments left by the developer. This game also stood out in that not everything you pick up is useful. This is much more like the real world experience. Wish there is slightly more hint later on in the game, but overall a fun game.
*– [Real player with 1.3 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198391195855)*
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## Murder Diaries
An unusual idea, but at the same time very exciting. That's what make this game unique.
I mean content-plot, it is not just a short story. MOREOVER, while playing you are getting more and more new adventures. Our task is to collect some fragments of the story and finally investigate murder.
Pros: interesting plot, good graphic, well-chosen soundtrack
Cons right now can't be noticed by me, i might played too little time to notice them.
And to conclude, this game is something unusual, not like others one. Really good one to spend free time
*– [Real player with 11.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198137076866)*
there is a sense of horror in the process of playing
*– [Real player with 7.5 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198816692723)*
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## 12 Hours to Die
A low configuration version of "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc". The overall plot content is excellent, and the image of the characters is quite rich. Everyone has his own sad story, and everyone is the protagonist of the story.
I feel grieved for Reina's death. She is really a good girl. I was so happy when Edmund came back from his life that I almost thought the hero was dead. He is a shy and wise boy.
When the final puzzle was opened, the story came to a successful end. And I found out early that Argus was the killer.
*– [Real player with 51.4 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198964399870)*
HAY DIAD YA NEW DAT DIS GAME IS JUUS LIK
no i didnt until you all told me so ill say RIGHT NOW… danganronpa... i never played it... so this basic set up for me is one of neutral setting in short im not basing my review on that game
right so the game is about 6 high schoolers, that get trapped in a school by a robot controlled by a psycho path and they have 12 hours to escape, not real time mind you Y DI IT TAK U SO LUNG TO PLAY DIS? well i went to work forgot it was one fell asleep went back to work and repeat. i will say that this game aint that bad for story... but i will also say... dont freaking make me math damn you... each math problem in this game i looked at with irritation... so i cheated with a guide... im sure i would get more out of it with finding out the puzzles but i couldn't be bothered after i tried to solve some of them.
*– [Real player with 40.8 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198037613508)*
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## Bear With Me - Episode One
Well, for some reasons I played this game many months ago, more than a year, and then the third episode came out few months ago so I bought it as soon as possible and played it, enjoyed it a lot and so on.. now the collector's edition's out on Humble Bundle as far as I know.
Anyways this game's is a great hidden object/graphic adventure with an awesome story; I loved everything here although the whole game setting is probably too restricted thus don't allowing you to explore as much as I wanted to.
*– [Real player with 23.6 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198356141989)*
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a clawsome game that is impawsible to furget. Having a charming yet grizzly atmosphere that you won’t find too polarizing, I just couldn’t bear to put it down.
Sorry, I’ll stop the bear puns now.
Promise.
Ahem, so ‘Bear with Me’ is an episodic point and click game with a heavy noir detective theme. But you know that from reading the description, and really if you’re interested by that idea then you’re probably going to enjoy this game. Yet if you’re still a bit sceptical then let me assure you, it is worth the time to go through.
*– [Real player with 20.6 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198110791901)*
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