Chinatown Detective Agency

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Posted on: December 28, 2022

varmaa

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Jeux: 561 Avis: 8

Wonderful puzzles, but hard to recommend

I was so excited about this game. I came to this title expecting a Carmen Sandiego-like twist on the adventure game genre: a point-and-click adventure game that required me to do "real-world research" to solve the puzzles. Right now this game is sitting in my collection with only a few hours of playtime. Here's what keeps me from picking it up again: * Unlike most adventure games, CDA doesn't allow you to save whenever you want. I had to leave my laptop on with the game running whenever I wanted to take a break during a case. * This game has twitch-based action sequences. Early on, I had to shoot a gun from someone's hand by clicking on it within a period of time. I don't mind playing twitch games, and I was able to complete this challenge successfully, but I really don't want twitch mechanics in my adventure games; I wish there was just a way to turn off these sorts of challenges. * This game has real-time limited puzzles. At one point, I had to find real-world information within a span of 5 minutes, during which the game wouldn't let me pause. The stakes were increased because this occurred deep into a case, so if I failed, I'd have to restore an old saved game and play a bunch of it over again. I guess this was intentional, but it wasn't really what I signed up for; while I did complete the puzzle in time, the time pressure wasn't fun. * There's a bunch of other superfluous mechanics that just ... aren't fun? You have to manage your time using a painful UI, doing a bunch of time/date math in your head, and pay monthly rent. Yet the thing is, the puzzles themselves are really fun! The characters and art are wonderful! It kills me that this game would be made so much better by *removing* mechanics. I hope someday they make a director's cut that gets rid of these things--or at least makes them optional--and adds the ability to save anywhere, because that would be an easy 5-star recommendation that I couldn't put down.

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Posted on: April 15, 2022

moshivanhaak

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Jeux: 252 Avis: 1

Great and original game!

I just love the artstyle and concept: the need to do research out of game gave me solid Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego“ flashbacks - in the most positive way. Would be 5* if you had the ability to safe while inside a case.

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Posted on: January 11, 2023

CharlieLima79

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Jeux: 692 Avis: 149

Good mystery; held back by flaws & bugs

‘Chinatown Detective Agency’ is a detective point-and-click adventure game with an engaging story, with plenty of interesting cases to solve. After a protracted tutorial, you get to choose one of 3 clients, each of whom will temporarily steer the story into a new direction, with different sets of puzzles. Narratively, this is where ‘CDA’ is most fun. Sadly, all branches return to a singular point in the main story. From that point on, the only difference is the supporting cast. Still, I really enjoyed how ‘CDA’ incorporated the ethnic diversity, dialects, cultures, and societal issues of Singapore, the game’s setting, into the story. Tossing in some globetrotting à la ‘Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?’ made the adventure grander. I really liked the game sharing a brief history (and expanded fictional future history) of each city and neighbourhood you visit. I like ‘CDA’, but I don’t love it. I found it an overly ambitious game that lacks polish. Some locations and mechanics felt underused or unnecessary, and almost all of the game’s puzzles require you to alt-tab out of the game so you can search the Internet for clues or solve the problems. It’s a neat idea, but pulling players away from the game’s environment too much isn’t. Plus, the version I played (1.0.17) was buggy. There were mismatches between subtitles and spoken dialogues, missing voice acting in parts, uneven sound levels, missing city description, inappropriate sound loops, grammatical and spelling errors, and so on. The worst part of ‘CDA’ is that you can only save at the end of a case, so quitting mid-case or failing means starting a case from the beginning. In spite of its obvious flaws, ‘CDA’ is still a game worth playing because the good parts truly outshine the bad. It might have missed the bullseye, but not by so much that it becomes a bad game. Overall, ‘CDA’ is a fun detective adventure game that tests your mental prowess, or at the very least, search engine skills.

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Posted on: April 27, 2025

lelletto

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Jeux: 214 Avis: 16

very enjoyable

special points for being based in Singapura, a wonderful island with great people. Detective game fans will lap it up. Just watch out -you can't savegame for the first 30-40 mins so be sure to leave enough time in your first session

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Posted on: March 3, 2026

Shadowcat78

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Jeux: 463 Avis: 12

Detective work with Google

Chinatown Detective Agency is an unusual adventure game, as you're not using in-game clues to solve problems but rather using a search engine to solve its puzzles and riddles. Early on solutions are fairly simple, such as finding the country of origin for various stamps and artifacts. Later in the adventure there are some truly difficult puzzles in the form of ciphers which will likely have you scratching your head. Fortunately, there is an in-game hint guide, so you won't have to worry about getting stuck. You will also have to solve cases to earn money with which to pay rent, utilities and book flights and other expenses. As long as you're not just mindlessly flying to random locations, money won't be an issue in this game. This game stars a woman PI by the name of Amira, who gradually uncovers a threat to the world order. The story is serviceable if not remarkable, but does serve to increase the tension as you get closer to unraveling the mystery. There are three branching paths in the middle 3rd of the game which converge again near the end. Its a little awkward for those wanting to experience the whole game. Best advice is to save before the branching occurs and you can play all three if interested. The game's performance was fine. The were audio hiccups, where the characters would continue speaking beyond what the dialog box shows, or lines would repeat, and there were frequent uses of bad grammar. Nothing game-breaking, but it is lacking polish. In the end, I found the google searching to grow a little tedious, and I was ready for the game to be over. I finished in roughly 5-6 hours, just playing one of the paths mentioned earlier. Perhaps add another 2-3 hours if you want to go back and play the two others.

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