Dead Noir The Heart is a basic investigation game that left me underwhelmed.

You can find a about 15 minutes of gameplay with commentary here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke-lLamt4NU

Theres not much to be said about this game, mainly due to there not being much to do in it.

You play Jackson Corpse, a retired cop who now does freelance investigations for the police. Your asked to investigate a crime scene, that ends up being a chain of crime scenes.

The investigation part of the game is simplistic, you walk around the room until you get near enough to something of interest then a prompt to investigate comes up. This is repeated multiple times per crime scene until you have found them all. Once all clue are found you can then use "detective vision" to see the flow of what happened.

While the premise is interesting, and I liked how the description of information found is tied into the scene, the implementation is simplistic. Its not hard to find the clues, with most found in a few minutes and I almost felt I could have just watched the game do it for me and got the same experience. That's a shame as I can see what the developer was going for, but it just doesn't hit the mark.

As stated, the game is controller only, but I don't see why there isn't mouse and keyboard support as there is no advantage to using a controller.

The graphics are simple, and I found that sometimes the items are clipping into each other. This is especially obvious with the woman that you speak too, who was always looking in the wrong direction and seemed to be part of the chair she was sitting on. The background music was fine, but the game had no way to turn it down or off if that was your preference.

For me, the game didn't hit the mark. I don't regret buying it, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone I know.

BORING! Nothing happens. You walk around a "crime scene" and look for "evidence". Instead of using forensic equipment, you walk just past the "evidence" and a text box pops up. Thats is the game. You don't do much investigating. It's a waste of money.

Follow "First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games" for more games like this!

The main menu can only be navigated using the keyboard, not mouse.

After choosing 'new game', the game introduces you to the main character, and sets up the story using extremely broken English. You then walk around your apartment, where it tells you "use X to interact". Pressing 'X' does nothing; the actual interact key is 'E'.

When you walk to the desk, a new menu pops up asking you to select a case. As far as I can tell, there is no actual way to select a case, and you're forced to alt+f4 here.

What a steaming pile of garbage.

BORING! Nothing happens. You walk around a "crime scene" and look for "evidence". Instead of using forensic equipment, you walk just past the "evidence" and a text box pops up. Thats is the game. You don't do much investigating. It's a waste of money.

This game is better than L.A. Noire 👍

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Even though this is a low production indie game, I decided to give it a try, as I'm a fool for everything Noir related.
The game could be interesting, but unfortunately it's just painful to play. Controls and UI are horrible. The screen tips says "Press X to interact" when in reality it's E to interact. You get stuck in menus pressing all keys trying to find out how to do something.
The gameplay itself consists of walking around in a room pressing E (not X) to look at suspicious objects.
Stay away from this, kids.