Posted on: April 1, 2025
Cryohydra911
Games: 303 Reviews: 1
Great concept, but disjointed execution
My partner and I were sold on the concept of this game - investigate crime scenes, answer questions based on the evidence you can find. After having enjoyed The Painscreek Killings by the same developer, we looked forward to this title. We were disappointed. While the Painscreek Killings focused on the events of an entire town from years prior, this game focuses on much smaller scenarios - you often only have a single room or apartment to investigate, and sometimes access to parts of the scene's locations are inaccessible to you. Theoretically, this shouldn't be a problem. But details that don't matter on a larger scale, such as who walked through a hallway first, suddenly become paramount in smaller scenes like this - and the writing, along with the sparser amount of evidence given to you, causes major friction with the questions you are tasked to answer. Especially since, for many cases, these are questions that, in reality, you'd already have the answers to before you even arrive - such as a coroner's report (or just positive ID) on who was found dead at the scene. Omitting crucial details that would otherwise be readily available to you in such a setting, combined with being required to make some serious logical leaps in some cases to reach the "correct" answers, left myself and my partner with a sour taste in our mouths. It got so bad, we uninstalled before we made it into the third case. It's good to be able to link things together, but far too often we found the lack of evidence not only confusing but nonsensical - and the final straw was when some of the conclusive case reports at the end not only came from seemingly nowhere but outright contradicted evidence you could find during an investigation. It feels like they wrote answers first, then tried to build the scene afterwards. Which rarely works. I'll keep an eye on the developers and wish them the best of luck in the future. But they really need to work on their writing - and logic - consistency.
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