It’s by the Concrete Jungle guy? Woah. Glad he’s still making stuff, and I’m very interested in this kind of big swing from him!
@jsnell though now that I look and see that you suggested skipping Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter, I started playing it just now because I had it free from Twitch and I am absolutely stumped on just how the game works. I’m trying to do the very first character portrait and I can pan around the kid’s body but clicking the mouse/pressing buttons on my xbox controller doesn’t seem to do anything at all, and then after a little while it tells me I did a bad job. Then I was questioning him and tried to object and it seemed like it ignored that. What does the UI want me to do?
Speaking of Frogware’s Sherlock series, they have announced the next game in the series and it’s going the prequel route of showing you his younger years. For my liking he’s looking a bit too much like a pretty boyband singer, but that’s not really important.
Who is the imaginary friend? Mycroft? his dad?
Is it being released episodic?
Nope… In one interview they explained its a full game, the name is just a variation of “Sherlock: origins” or “Sherlock: Year One” …etc
Very nice! But seems a long way from being done. Kind of reminds me of Liberation: Captive 2 (Amiga 1993) in the way you’re going around procedural locations tracking clues. And it is crazy that you have to go that far back to find something similar! :)
This article got me excited for his “Writer’s Detective Handbook,” but it seems like it doesn’t really exist.
Paradise Killer looks pretty interesting: https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/how-a-new-indie-studio-created-one-of-the-best-detective-games-ever/
It does. They talk about how open ended it is. I can’t tell if there’s one person who is the ultimate target murderer or if it can be a different person each play through. If the latter, this is an instant buy/try for me.
Wow! Thanks for putting this one on my radar. Gonna grab it tonight when I get home.
It’s really really good. Rushed through it in a couple of nights because I enjoyed it so much. AFAICT, it’s a fixed mystery, not randomised in a Bladerunner style, but significant player discretion is left as to how much you want to prosecute people based on the facts you uncover.
Massive spoiler Seems there are two conspiracies, I felt, that happened to coincide. I sent the one run by all the really unsympathetic ones down completely, while pinning the other one solely on the ringleader. Which leaves a bit of a moral nasty aftertaste, as one of the former group hated me, but had a very sympathetic motive for joining in, while the two I let off were sympathetic personally, but had a much weaker motive of boredom for wanting to join in. Especially as they’re all mass-murdering immortal sociopaths worshipping genocidal gods. Still, fitting in to the role, I executed Henry afterwards though., No Citizens on the next island, after all.
The theme song has been stuck in my head all week too.
I only just saw this thread and scrolled through the whole thing very quickly and unless I missed it you are missing one of the best game series ever…
Danganronpa which is a visual novel type game. I’ve only played the first two, but the third one gets great reviews as well. The first one is one of my favorite games ever. It’s just so different than anything else I’ve ever played.
All the games in the series have a similar idea which is that you have a group all trapped in a place and need to solve murders to escape. Each murder involves you trying to figure out who did it and then convicting them. If I missed it above ignore me, but if it’s not add it to your darn list yesterday.
After listening to your link five times in a row, I’m seriously considering getting the edition with the soundtrack.
(Ooh, available on Switch too! Oh, never mind, it costs 50% more than the Steam version despite there being no Steam discounts.)
I’m enjoying the gameplay and design of Paradise Killer, but I do have to fight through the art style and aesthetic. Not that it’s bad, but it’s just aggressively not to my taste. But there’s only one Obra Dinn and I really need a fix.
Tbh I found the deliberate graphical dissonance part of the charm. If you don’t have the budget, lean into it thematically.
Alert, @jsnell! Chinatown Detective Agency! Demo out now.
Become the detective in this free prologue for Chinatown Detective Agency. Amira Darma is new to the PI game, and you’ll need to use real-world detective skills to help her solve cases, manage her agency and unravel a global conspiracy in this globetrotting neo-noir mystery.
Just dropped this in the Probably Indie Games thread, but it seems to have some Sherlock Holmes-style detectiving, so figured I would mention it here, too.
Whoa, that has shades of “The Wolf Among Us”, one of my favorite games. So will this be on PC?