Homicide Desk

A super and highly addictive game! I totally love it. It can make you lose your sleep. Hahaha.

This game does have a lot of potential. I do think the guilty need to be a little bit harder to figure out.

The overall concept of the game is really great, but the AI models don’t always answer the questions I ask and sometimes respond with something completely unrelated. The game also adds evidence based on things the characters supposedly said, even though those statements were never actually made during the interrogation. The cases also feel too similar to one another, and the culprit is usually obvious almost immediately. There isn’t enough mystery or complexity to make you really think and work through the clues to solve the case. The game hasn’t been fully released yet, and new cases are still in development. I hope the upcoming cases will be more challenging and less predictable. Update: They added two new cases. In Case 6, [spoiler]the deceased person’s real name is shown on the evidence board from the very beginning, before you’ve even learned it.[/spoiler] Big fail.

J’ai fait seulement la première mission et, j’avoue, c’est un peu robotique par moments. Même quand tu leur montres noir sur blanc la preuve que la personne est coupable, elle va quand même nier et faire comme si elle ne comprenait absolument rien. 😂 Après, peut-être que c’est simplement le personnage qui joue à fond le rôle de l’ignorance « Moi ? Coupable !, La loi, c’est moi ! » - Judge Dredd ( Je parle du film de 2012 pas la merde de 1995 ) Bref, c’est très amusant, très RP, et je m’amuse vraiment bien. C’est 100 % validé de mon côté ! Reste à voir si le jeu tient la route sur la durée. Il n’est clairement pas parfait, mais pour le prix, c’est franchement une petite pépite.

is there any way to buy game currency? i need to gamble it away, and my salary is too small that i want slave myself away to bribes. anyway, is there a way to gain more in game currency? or receive bribes? or doing anything that increase my salary away?

As someone who's played a decent amount of mystery/detective games (Ace Attorney, cyberman hunt, Orwell) and puzzle games, I actually quite enjoyed myself with this game and it's core gameplay mechanics. PRO: You're in full control of the investigation pace. There is no solid "time limit" to each case, even though the game may seem to pressure you through emails of lawyers and your employer wanting you to solve the case quickly. CON: I've noticed sometimes that clues you already discovered need to be pointed out again to some of the people your interrogating in order to trigger the requirements to make the arrest warrant available. This can be tedious because even if you solved that part of the puzzle, you'd need to trigger the specific instance to fulfill the requisite for the arrest warrant through a specific way (i.e. asking one person in an interrogation about the evidence even when you discovered it via another person). PRO: Free reign of the interrogations. The flexibility of being able to ask anything in interrogations is very refreshing, instead of choosing from a set amount of choices. CON: AI will be AI - sometimes when you ask a question, the person you ask it too will repeat certain phrases even when you weren't asking about them. Of course, I expect this to get better overtime, but it's acceptable so far. It just breaks the immersion sometimes/causes mild frustration when you're trying to probe for a specific piece of information. PRO: You need to explain in your own words and present evidence why and how the killer pulled off the murder for the arrest warrant. Your deduction score is calculated at the end (I'm assuming after AI goes through your discussion). The concept itself is something I appreciate, rather than you just pointing out who the killer is, you're expected to explain how all the evidence contributes to your case in your own words, which is not the kind of freedom you'd expect in other deduction games. CON: It's like a graded essay, in a way. I'm unsure what the criteria is to get a higher deduction, I suppose it bases it off how concise you can be while tying all the evidence together. Sometimes it can be frustrating to be graded on a case, but not know what you could have improved, when you went over all the clues and explained them clearly (as you think you would have done). PRO: Lots of tools at your disposal to customize your playthrough of each investigation. Each case brought in new core gameplay elements, ranging from forensics, accessing databases, using UV lights, etc. CON: Sometimes I feel the game handholds you too much. I hope there's an option in the future to turn off specific cues when you are interrogating suspects (i.e. the ones that point out what you found and why it's important). I wish there was a way to turn off this option/consolidate it to the notebook with the notif saying "notebook updated." I also wish there was a way to turn off cues on photos where it literally tells you "there's something hidden here, use a UV light." Pro: The evidence board can be used to organize your thoughts Con: It's a little finicky and overwhelming when you have so many sticky notes on the page and even when you tidy it up, you need to move a lot of stuff around in order to cleanly connect evidence. It's not a requirement, I just wish there was a way where you could right click -> add evidence/statement type instead of seeing like 40 clues all at once taking up the board. These are just some of the impressions I got from playing through the game. It's not perfect, but the concept is intriguing. TLDR: If you don't mind the occasional AI conversations sounding a bit off, I'd recommend this game for those who are looking for a new detective game.

very cool and immersive play. Not much of a content though. Fot fot that price I have lots of fun interrogaing a decent AI. Is really fun.