Detective AI

Detective AI

Detective Games · September 28, 2021 · Strategy, Casual, Trivia, Puzzle, Roguelike

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Mixed43% · 30 📉 Recent reviews down 35%
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About Detective AI

Become a detective and confront an assassin controlled by an artificial intelligence that evolves with each case you investigate.

Detective AI — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Detective AI is plagued by numerous bugs that frustrate gameplay, including frozen attempts, unresponsive controls, and inconsistent translations, making it difficult to progress through cases. While players appreciate the pixel art style and some humor in character interactions, the game suffers from poor writing, excessive poorly-written visual novel cutscenes, clunky mechanics, and an overall sense of incomplete or phoned-in design. Most reviewers advise against downloading the game.

Not recommended Feb 2, 2025
a buggy game and not intresting
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Not recommended Aug 5, 2023
Very buggy, and when I made a mistake with my notebook, despite being given 3 attempts it froze on the 1st attempt and i had to restart.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 11, 2026
I like the concept, but I found this game very buggy. Sometimes clicking the dialogue options, Shift and Esc buttons don't work. It was so frustrating for me I could barely make it past Case One. There are also some spelling and grammatical errors. I think some words weren't even translated correctly or consistently (when I decided to come back to the crime scene, Case One became "Caso One".) I will admit, there were some funny moments and characters, especially the protagonist's remarks when exploring the police station. As for the graphics, my only complaint would be that the hand-drawn dialogue sprites are visually jarring and out of place for the rest of the game's graphics, which is composed of pixels. They could have been drawn in pixels too, I liked the pixel art. Even if it's free, I wouldn't recommend this game for the results-based gamer who also wants to chill. If this game ever gets updated for the better, I might just leave a more postive review. This game has potential, it just needs more polish.
Not recommended Aug 15, 2025
"Detective AI" is a badly made top down JRPG looking adventure detective game with a supposedly clever AI that gets progressively more difficult as you solve the mysteries, which almost nobody bothered to do. It's a buggy, clunky, badly designed mess with poor writing, phoned in pixelcrap "art", and worse gameplay. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design.. "Show, don't tell." So you'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written VN text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with reading a book for your time. We're here to play games, not read through hours of garbage intersituals. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matte…
Not recommended Aug 2, 2025
Buggy even after almost four years. Within the first five minutes there are spelling errors. The evidence does not work, Kyle is useless. I like the pixel art only. It could do without the drawings. Really tried to give this game a chance. Take my advice and don't download.
Recommended Mar 11, 2024
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