I wanted to love this game.

Very cool concept that I'd love more of, unfortunately the game is just too buggy to recommend unless you have extreme patience.

The bugginess reaches a strange level where sometimes its hard to tell if the game is pulling a fast one on you during a case, or if its just glitched out. I've had a few times where I saw NPCs sent emails to themselves about how they'll go to HR if they don't leave themselves alone, sometimes these emails are timestamped after said NPC has died. Sometimes the victim is somehow alive again about an hour into the case to solve their murder.

Sometimes you'll get cases with no way they could be solved outside of straight "try every name" trial-and-error, like in "photograph the suspect/target" cases where the information on the target will be blank, no name, no initials, no picture, no address, *nothing*. God help you if you somehow lose the starting briefcase as well.

Also the obligatory "why is everyone so angry when I ask for their name?"

When everything is working it still feels like the only useful option is to kick down a door, beat the resident(s) unconcious (if you didn't get them with the door itself) and scour their apartment for information before they wake up. The stealth in game is so laughably unpredictable as well that you can't even expect to somewhat reliably sneak into anything at all - the best option is violence, every single time.

I love the art-style, I love the mood, I love about half of the gameplay, but the rest can sometimes be multiple-hours without any progression at all because something bugged out, but even that's hard to tell when its the case.

How it feels to be a white man in a world full of browns and troons

Cool idea but buggy. Loaded up a save inside the apartment of the victim of the default case and I was suddenly being chased by "Enforcers". I didn't really even have a chance to look around the apartment. This is the first case of the game. That's a huge red flag for me about what might happen later if I keep playing, so I'm going to put the game down for now and try it again after the full release. Really cool idea though.

Until Echelon Zones are changed or completely removed I will never recommend this game to anyone. It forces you to play the game in a very specific way that a "Detective" would never do. 4 of my 6 cases after finishing the tutorial were in Echelon Zones, that's a very high probability of cases that I simply can't do without essentially being a criminal.

Imagine you call me saying someone broke into your apartment come over and figure out what happened. Then when I arrive and knock on your door you get mad at me because the area you live in is a restricted zone. My solution is now to either knock you out or break into your apartment when you're not home to figure out who stole from you. Do you realise how stupid that sounds? If I'm going to an Echelon Zone I should be able to get a pass from someone who lives there. Especially when they literally called me asking me to come over. Guest passes are already a thing why aren't they used here?

Very hard, you don't know if the game is bugged or if you are not doing what's needed, you gotta interogate people who don't even seem to exist since you can't find them anywhere (job, home, street) and you just run aimlessly, pretty ♥♥♥♥ game ngl

First game I've tried to play that refuses to load.
If you decide to go with the pre generated map you can stare at loading save file sreen. Comes with empty loading bar and pulsating game logo. Exciting. Nothing will happen though, this IS the game.
If that bores you you can switch it up a bit and try to generate a level so you can end up staring the empty loading bar and "creating blocks" screen. Facinating.
I will have to sleep on if I want to refund this game or if I want to stare the either of the empty loading bars for one more hour.

i want to give this game a good review but it has issues that i just cant ignore. like the fact that murders can just straight up be unsolvable. so unless that gets fixed i dont really think i can give a good review, and hey maybe im just stupid and missing somthing really obvious.

i love the idea but i cant even get out of bed bc its so unclear. i would love to have the game but i needed to be able to move if you can help me i will love to play your game

Boring. The only interesting case is tutorial, all other cases are bland, straightforward and not engaging. Mechanics are shallow.

Every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ case i get has absolutely no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clues, ♥♥♥♥ you for wasting my time.
Playing on normal btw.