Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division

Most people don't know that a lot of police officers actually need SQL to do investigations. Google "40% of police" to learn more.

Really clever game, I've thoroughly enjoyed the dialogue. Game is melting my brain as a novice SQL-er. If the developer ever decided to expand this concept out to other programming languages they'd have me as a buy day 1.

This game is fire ngl. Wanted to train my sql knowledge and discovered a jewel of a game. You know sql? Go for it! You heard of sql but don't know anything? Go for it! A great manuel is here to help you learn step by step. You don't know why you're here or anything about sql? GO FOR IT! This is the kind of game we need, the humor of the dev and the hand-drawn graphics are really good and I hope this game will get the love it deserves. 10/10

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I like the immersive experience of the whole game freezing when I write an inefficient SQL query.

I’ve purchased this game and truly enjoy its core design and vision. I’d like to sincerely ask if the developer would consider adding official Chinese localization in a future update. I understand that the current English-only version is due to resource and time constraints. However, the Chinese-speaking player base is large and active, and many of us are willing to support great games financially. While the language barrier doesn’t stop us from buying, official translation would definitely help more players fully appreciate the game and enrich the community. I know localization takes time and money, but I hope this can be taken as friendly feedback from a player. Even if it's added gradually in later updates, it would mean a lot to many Chinese players. Thank you for making such a wonderful game. I look forward to seeing it reach more Chinese players in the future.

I do this for work, I shouldn't want to do this for fun, and yet... 10/10 incredibly fun and addictive.

Honestly great and pretty hilarious. Even if you are a SQL power-user, this is a good one in that you dont get to use some of the options you might normally use, like concat, coalesce, case statements, unions, havent tried CTEs. Its kind of a challenge mode in some ways! Puzzles start out incredibly easy but this isnt a pure sql coding game, there is a genuine sleuth/puzzle aspect to finding data dumps and understanding what they might be used for, in addition to the coding constraints. It's a GENIUINE delight. For example related to coding constraints: In the middle puzzles you are given a perpetrator list or easily find one, followed by filtering on various criteria. Later on you kind of have to construct one. I wish i had union so I could merge something like 12 different tables that display a list of players in an mmo guild. My first approach would be to put basically build a master player dimensional table, but... well there isn't a way to union, so you have to be a bit more smart about what you are doing :) RUNS GREAT ON STEAM DECK IN DESKTOP MODE!