Murder Mystery Machine (or MMM) is a (puzzle?) game I both bought and picked up on a whim and I'm glad I did! In the game you play as rookie detective called Cass, who is assigned to DCA, a neglected division of the police. Throughout the game you investigate murders and later get tangled up in a bigger conspiracy.

MMM wasn't a mind-blowing game, but it surprised me positively. I liked the overarching conspiracy story and some of the other unrelated cases, but I think some excess fat could have been trimmed as some cases didn't contribute to the story in any way (for example case 7 was supposed to give background info on our teammate Nate, but it was only two lines at the end of it and case 4 was just boring in general). In addition, there were some choices, but I don't think they made any difference during the game as some of them were never mentioned again. Story was quite predictable at times and I usually knew who did what pretty early into the cases. The biggest game mechanic, in which you piece together a web of clues (think of that one meme of Charlie day) by pressing at one of them and then dragging a red string to a related clue was interesting at first, but eventually got boring after doing it over and over throughout the cases. In addition, sometimes it was really difficult to say what linked to what, as I thought something could be related but in reality it just wasn't.

all in all, I don't think MMM is a bad game, but it definitely overuses the same mechanics and would have benefitted from just cutting couple episodes. I'm glad I picked it up though as it made me use my brain once in a while and the story and characters were pretty interesting.