So the game has some good ideas but not all of it is executed properly and what’s there is clearly made with a tiny budget. Even though the priorities were right, I’m not sure what’s there is enough. It’s a detective game where you’re given 8 cases. Each case has between 5 and 6 missions. Each mission is basically one small room where you get to speak with who’s around, examine items and make connections. With the last one, some important words/sentences are collected based on what you find. You use those to combine them with other words/sentences. Based on that, you will get new dialogue options that will give you new clues, so words/sentences to use. Once you’ve went through everything, you’re supposed to decide who’s the suspect, murder weapon, place of crime etc. This part is fun when it works. But a lot of times it’s trial and error, trying to figure out what the devs want you to connect. It’s too specific, the wording is too vague, or some of the connections seemed too easy to bring up again. As you can imagine, this part is very subjective and also very difficult to get right from the perspective of the developers too. There is a hint system that gives you the answers, as in give you one connection each time. However, your score is reduced every time you make use of it. If you’re too prideful or have OCD tendencies, then it might annoy you when you get lower scores based on the words/sentences that were expected of you. You can replay cases after clearing them but I didn’t care enough to go through them again. With budget I mean the fact there is only one room with each case. Some rooms are often used again. There isn’t really a soundtrack and there is no voice acting. Still though I like some of the interactions in the office, like eating donuts and the sound effects.

Even though I didn’t care much about the gameplay anymore, I did care about the story enough. That was the driving force for me finishing the game. It might not seem the case early on but the cases are connected. Even if the ending is not very satisfactory, the rest was worth experiencing once through Apple Arcade. The game might also be worth it on the cheap for fans of the genre but keep your expectations in check.