Couch Detective
Gamtropy · 2026 · Detective, Typing, Puzzle, Text-Based, Artificial Intelligence
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Mixed56% · 18
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About Couch Detective
Ask, deduce, unravel—the truth is just one question away.
What's this game?
Have you heard of "lateral thinking puzzles"? Also known as "yes/no riddles"—First, you read a vague and bizarre scenario. Then, players can ask any number of questions, and the host only answers "yes," "no," or "irrelevant," until the players piece together the full story. Couch Detective is just like that, except this time, the host is AI, and you're sitting on the couch, ready to unravel the mystery.How to play?
- Read a super weird prompt (sometimes even a bit funny)
- Ask any yes/no questions, try to deduce
- AI will answer "yes," "no," or "irrelevant" based on your questions, and you piece together the story step by step
You can create puzzles too!
By the way, we have a creation mode! In creation mode, you just need to input a few keywords, a scenario, or even an ending, and AI will automatically generate a complete lateral thinking puzzle for you—the prompt, the answer, and the logic all set.You can play it yourself or share it with friends to challenge them. Instantly become a puzzle designer!What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
While this is a cool idea, the game is buggy. It is supposed to answer no/yes/irrelevant truthfully. There was one puzzle where is kept saying "no" to my questions but when I checked the notes where it keeps all the relevant answers, suddenly all the answers said "yes". But when I solved the puzzle, the solution showed that the notes were wrong. Example: Me: "was he murdered?" AI bot: "no" Hint notes: "he was murdered" Solution: "he was not murdered" Its just not consistent and makes it hard to solve the puzzles.7 found this helpful
Couch Detective is a collection of situation puzzles. The player types in questions, and an AI host answers yes/no/irrelevant. CD is not the first game to do it, but still, this idea is possibly one of the most interesting uses of AI in games we've seen thus far. To complete a puzzle, the player needs to switch to answer mode and provide a short summary of the solution. The AI can give more elaborate answers than yes/no if there is a possible ambiguity, ask for a clarification, or explain why an answer provided by the player is incomplete. In fact, currently asking an open-ended question or providing an incomplete answer can be used as a way to obtain hints. Lastly, each puzzle has predefined built-in hints. One issue is that all those ways to obtain feedback and hints are not well balanced yet, sometimes revealing too much information or spoiling the puzzle outright. There's a log of previous questions and answers, and there's a separate section for collected information. The main game currently contains more than 100 puzzles. In addition, there are user-made puzzles and guess-the-item puzzles (I believe guess-the-item puzzles are generated automatically). However, the puzzles…7 found this helpful
bad game refunded. cute cat tho1 found this helpful
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