DETECTIVE - Minerva case

So, perhaps it is me and my expectations and I didn't research the game enough, however, I really love detective games a lot so I decided to give this one a shot because it wasn't that expensive. The game is INCREDIBLY simple--too simple. You "collect" evidence by just moving your cursor across the screen and click on things that create the "double circle". Nothing is really hidden--the most hidden evidence is like, something on the floor. Then you go to your office and "deduce" by picking 6 pieces of evidence and putting them in the order it happened. Nothing crazy. Then you move on to the next case. The story line is incredibly simple and easily guessable--I wasn't surprised at all where it was going. The two endings are boring. It's cheap and it says I played the game for 2 hours but it was less because I did some online shopping during it. Expect MAYBE one hour. Not worth it.

[h2] This looks quite good on the preview on the store page but it turned out to be a bit disappointing. [/h2] Detective Minerva Case promised to be a crime deduction and solving game, which appealed to me as I enjoy looking for clues and making deductions. I imagined scouring rooms for clues and taking evidence from bodies, reading emails, documentation, perhaps interviewing witnesses and travelling around to different locations, and uncovering an interesting story. There is hardly any of this in the game and it is very basic. Game play solely involves entering a room and finding ten pieces of evidence, but the evidence is very obvious and there is no opening drawers, looking through filing cabinets, or even searching the murder victim. The most imaginative the searching gets is by clicking on the computer and reading the emails, otherwise it is just a case of finding evidence in plain sight and clicking on it. There was no further examination of any of the evidence and no analysis, like sending items off to the lab for finger prints or sending bullet cases to ballistics. There's no journal or any way to reference the evidence you have collected, it just floats around in the room so you will need to remember it. I often found evidence by accident by spamming the right mouse button and it would pick up nearby evidence without actually looking at it. Navigating the room was troublesome with a very loose camera and descriptions of evidence floating in the air often obstructed your view. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3281885589 Once you have collected it, you go back to the office and have to choose six pieces of evidence from the ten pieces you collected and then put them into chronological order of the events of the murder. The evidence is laid out crudely on the wall so you can reference it here, but the controls and camera are so poor that it is hard to even look at the evidence. The evidence board is even worse, and it is incredibly frustrating just trying to put a piece of evidence in one of the slots. I could not do it with my mouse and in the end had to use a combination of mouse and arrow keys. Putting these items in chronological order is just guess work really as there is no deduction or any leg work gone into investigating the case. There is no story, cut scenes, or any interaction with other characters, so the story is completely derived from the evidence you collect. There's ten pieces of evidence, now put six of them on the board. I attempted to order the evidence but the process was so infuriating that I lost interest, and at this point my PC was getting worryingly hot and I had to come out of the game in fear my PC would get damaged. The atmosphere of the game was quite intriguing with a futuristic vibe and flying cars outside the window but everything was very dark and I considered turning up the contrast to see what I was doing. The music was probably the best thing about the game as it did give a futuristic vibe but it was mostly ambient noise and there was no tune as such. [h1]🍳Conclusion🍳[/h1] [quote][h2][b] Detective Minerva Case[/b] was disappointing. There are not enough ways to search for evidence, not enough ways to analyse evidence, no suspects or witnesses to interview, and no story or investigation to be had. As a detective game it misses out the fun bits of finding evidence and gaining clues from that evidence. I would have given it more time but the experience was frustrating and the game is poorly optimized, as my PC was getting very very hot. [/h2][/quote] [quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/] Follow [b]IndieGems[/b] [/url] for more reviews like this one. [/quote]