Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division

I had a lot of fun digging into the different cases :) The humour and art direction of the game makes it really charming and i would recommend it to every detective/puzzle fan out there. The later cases really require you to read everything carefully though! I really enjoyed this difficulty curve personally.

If you want to learn SQL in a way that doesn't make your brain hurt, this is it. Mixed in with some cute graphics and on-point humour, and I really enjoyed solving the cases. Big fan of Case five in particular, that is indeed a war crime 🍕

Lovely game. I really like the humor, and love the solving crimes aspect of having to search through different databases and websites in order to find clues and find out 'whodunnit'. Besides that, as someone who had SQL-knowledge beforehand I really enjoyed how the game functions with actually using SQL to solve the cases. Though I do wonder wonder why things some things (like FULL JOIN and ABS() as examples) weren't incorporated, though I did not open the manual even once so idk if it was mentioned somewhere which SQL syntax can and can't be used in the game. I do wish it was a *little* clearer in the end that you can time travel back towards earlier cases, as I did not know, never clicked on the little helper guy in the corner, and wanted to try and get all achievements. This led to me fully replaying the game before figuring out I could time travel, oops.. Either way, I do recommend the game if you enjoy following clues in order to solve crimes/mysteries. I'm pretty sure no prior SQL-knowledge is required, but I did not check, though I feel like the game is also a nice little tool to help you learn some SQL as well.

I really can't say enough good things about this game. It's a good intro to SQL, the cases are mostly really well designed (one's a little more subtle than I'd have liked and I felt like I couldn't build a proper causal chain), I liked the OSINT-style aspects of some of them, and it was honestly nice to just sit and write some SQL queries to get to the bottom of something. I legitimately wish there was more of this sort of thing. I know I could probably do CTFs for similar experiences but it's not quite the same. Anyway -- loved it, hope to see more in the future.

the visuals is really interesting. somewhat nostalgic and just very easy to access. I love the storyline, and basically the entire game. I feel like a computer savant just by playing this game. It is also for those who love cognitive/intellectual games, the difficulty is slowly progressing. Overall, would recommend this.

What a fun, and rewarding game! I love the challenge, the humor and the real world applicability of the game. Zoran was railroaded!

A phenomenal little game with so much effort and love poured into it. I fear the nicheness of SQL will deter a lot of people from playing this who would love it because underneath the SQL there are a bunch of awesome, well designed cases to crack! But of course the SQL is what makes it unique and as someone who loved my databases class in college, this was great fun to play all the way around.