The Detective Chapters: Part One
Mayhem Games USA · 2021 · Nudity, Gore, Adventure, Simulation, Indie
PC
6 user reviews50% · 6
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About The Detective Chapters: Part One
"When you came home from school that day, and you found him, the engine was still running, and the exhaust fumes were heavy in the air to the point of suffocation. Even though the garage door was closed, you instinctively opened it when you heard the rumble of the engine coming from the other side. Your father was dead."
The Detective Chapters: Part One is a choices matter first-person adventure game. In this game, you are an aspiring detective trying to make a name for yourself, but your life seems to be heading in all the wrong directions. Your mother is a drug-addicted alcoholic, and your father died mysteriously, perhaps it was suicide, but the evidence is lacking. You're a college dropout and now work the graveyard shift at the local convenience store to make a pittance. Your girlfriend is relentlessly on your butt about going back to school, but maybe you have other plans. Choose your path to happiness and find answers to secrets dead and buried.
The Story:
The Detective Chapters: Part One is a choices matter first-person adventure game. In this game, you are an aspiring detective trying to make a name for yourself, but your life seems to be heading in all the wrong directions. Your mother is a drug-addicted alcoholic, and your father died mysteriously, perhaps it was suicide, but the evidence is lacking. You're a college dropout and now work the graveyard shift at the local convenience store to make a pittance. Your girlfriend is relentlessly on your butt about going back to school, but maybe you have other plans. Choose your path to happiness and find answers to secrets dead and buried.
Key Features:
- First person adventure point and click.
- Interactive environment.
- Multiple dialogue choices
- Play as male, female or other.
- Story-rich.
- A dark and gritty atmosphere.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
The Detective Chapters: Part One is a janky 3D point-and-click adventure with an interesting story and dialogue that shows promise, but suffers from significant technical issues including crashes, broken mechanics like non-functional console inputs and ignored player choices, poor interface design, and tedious micromanagement of mundane tasks that bog down the pacing. While some players appreciate the narrative and atmospheric goth aesthetic, the rough execution, clipping bugs, and overall lack of polish make it feel like an unfinished rough draft rather than a complete product.
It is extremely janky but in a charming kind of way. A 3d point and click adventure with some interesting dialogue options. I like a lot of what's going on. However, the parts where you type into the console don't seem to have any effect on the game. I also really wish there was some voice acting. https://youtu.be/lGuSL9-IzGI9 found this helpful
The game asks you for a custom name. When you type one in, the game ignores you and uses the name it provided in the first place. That is the best part about this game. It is riddled with errors--coding and logic. It crashed on me twice. The interface would have been horrifying in 1996 let alone now. When you open the office door and look behind it, you'll see the door handle is on the wrong side. This is lazy by every single metric. Don't be fooled. Pass.5 found this helpful
The time I spent with The Detective Chapters: Part One mostly consisted of the playable character getting stuck on small objects I accidentally knocked over, trying the find my lost cursor, and physically writing down binary to solve a puzzle. That all came to a halt when the game got stuck 3 separate times on a day transition card reading "October 7th 2016". From the very little I got to experience, this game feels as if it's still a rough draft. If you decide to give The Detective Chapters a shot, you should do so in the ridiculously awesome early 2000's graphic setting.5 found this helpful
The Detective Chapters: Part One is a plodding interactive novel/first person adventure hybrid with adult themes. Take on the role of a detective and step through a needlessly micromanaged story as you do exciting things like: [list] [*] Turn off your alarm [*] Rummage through your nightstand for cash [*] Check your email [*] Answer the phone [*] Take out the garbage [/list] I already have to do that kind of thing myself, it's less fun doing it in a low poly, clunky first person adventure. I'm sure the story picks up at some point in time but I don't have 20 years to get through every minutiae of the game. The quality is pretty low, and while there's probably some kind of interesting story here, it's just too plodding for me to get into it.4 found this helpful
Really enjoyed the overall story. Like the whole Goth thing that you got going here - loved those clubs back in the 80s and 90s. Except for a couple minor crashes that I was able to recover from that game is excellent and has promise. Wish there was more to the chapter but looking forward to the next!4 found this helpful
very nice worth it
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