Detective Hunt - Crownston City PD
pixepob · 2016 · Adventure, Indie, RPG, Visual Novel, Noir
PC
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About Detective Hunt - Crownston City PD
Detective Hunt - Crownston City PD is a noir visual novel!
You are Damien Hunt, a junior detective of the Crownston City Police Department. Together with your partner, you are to investigate criminal activities around the city. You grew up hearing that the city is so safe, so beautiful... but is it?
Features
You are Damien Hunt, a junior detective of the Crownston City Police Department. Together with your partner, you are to investigate criminal activities around the city. You grew up hearing that the city is so safe, so beautiful... but is it?Features
- Story driven gameplay presented as a film noir-esque comic book / visual novel feel
- Three different yet intertwining chapters
- Multiple endings to each chapter. You choose who to apprehend, who to pursue and watch it unravel.
- Interview witnesses / Interrogate suspects. Depending on your method, you may uncover hidden clues and information
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate the game's core detective mechanics and branching choice system, with some noting that outcomes genuinely vary based on dialogue and evidence examination. However, the game is undermined by poor execution: opaque choice consequences requiring walkthroughs, technical limitations like inability to change resolution without losing progress and single-slot autosaves, pervasive spelling and grammar errors, and bland or tedious gameplay that makes it feel like a chore to complete, despite having decent graphics and interesting ideas.
It's not a bad game, but there are many gameplay mistakes that ruin the efforts. Despite having many choices, their purpose fail as a game mechanic since you have no idea what choice will give what result. If you wish to arrest a particular individual, you have to look at a walkthrough for the "correct" choice order. That doesn't work like it should. You think you're in control when suddenly the game decides that you arrest somebody, just because you talked to A instead of B at some point. No. Technical issues too: No way to change display resolution without going back to the main menu. Doing so destroys your progress because... you can't save anytime! Darn check points... There are only Autosaves on 1 slot. Automatic text advance during the cutscenes should be banished as well, especially since there is no pause nor backlog and if you didn't have the time to read/were distracted, tough luck. You have to click to advance, keyboard doesn't work. The writing is not bad, but there are a few things that irritated me: Having no period at the end of the sentences makes the text look like it's not finished. It's basic grammar, and yet... A few typos and spelling errors here and there, …12 found this helpful
Going through the game is a bit of a chore. The story is ok, and the game looks good, but there are too many spelling and grammar mistakes, the dialogues are often not believable, and the gameplay is bland. This was very close to being enjoyable though, that's a shame.1 found this helpful
Nice ideas, but just too boring to play through. Graphics could also be much improved, "fullscreen mode" is a joke with 1280x720 native game resolution. Can't recommend this game at it's current state (V1.0.1)1 found this helpful
As it is, it's a fun little detective game, however it does suffer from some later grammar errors and what's interesting is the outcome can change, depending on who you talk to at what point during the game. I feel that the developer did pour their heart into it, however it still suffers a few problems and was clearly a mobile game, with certain areas asking you to tap, despite using a mouse and keyboard. It's certainly fun for what it is, especially with different outcomes that can happen, depending who you accuse and how closely you look at the evidence.
Boring, why do they make "games" like this?
the puzzle pieces and choices fit together pretty well despite being a budget game
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