真探
OverviewIn order to improve the efficiency of selecting talents, the Akagi police specially developed a test system-the true detection system, with the black robe company. As a tester, you need to complete the cracking of the case under the rules of the system. The cracking process of the case is very similar to the real police case. The cases in the system are all actually happened in Akagi and are stored in the form of key clues. Each clue contains information about the clues. You need to constantly find new clues by looking at the information and fragment the clues. The content pieced together the completed case in your mind and reasoned out the course of the case. As long as you answer the correct questions about the case in the system, you can even crack a case. After cracking the case, you can view the criminal’s “criminal statement”.
In the process of cracking the case, you sometimes need to perform special operations on some clues, such as inferring the motives of the characters to complete the "search warrant" for the clues of the characters, and inferring a reasonable time to "invoke the monitoring" to check and reason out After the correct password of the encryption clue is "decoded", the encrypted content can be viewed and so on. The more user-friendly design is that when you have no clue, you can ask the system for help. The system will give you a certain range of tips, but a certain amount of investigative points will be deducted.
After you have solved all the cases, Akagi police will give your final evaluation based on the detection points and your performance.ThanksThanks to Ge Meiling, Shen Yongliang, Wang Xun, GT, and Chaochao for their help in the game production process, thank you family for your understanding and support, thank all friends who helped test and promote, thank all players!Follow mebilibili account: 算了b哥别认真
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Game Discussion
Steam User 5
The best and most organic example of the "search for keywords" genre that I've played. Love the deductive reasoning and the twists in the story. Some of the optional puzzles are ridiculously difficult, but overall really enjoyable!
Steam User 1
A great game with interesting puzzles, totally recommend
Steam User 2
The cases were not too easy to solve and some of the evidence were quite challenging to find, overall it's a fun game for people who don't mind large chunks of words (there's a lot of reading in the game, kinda like reading a short story at some point), not for people who's looking for a casual detective game.
Steam User 1
If you enjoy this type of investigation/ARG I highly recommend it. The bonus part was a bit hard to crack but general puzzles are great albeit there are some minor typos if you can look past them, this is a game for you.
Steam User 0
挺硬核的，和很多推理游戏比感觉更接近真实探案
Steam User 0
tl:dr Great game, English translation needs work.
I tried out the demo, and liked it enough to buy the full game.
It's text-based with only profile photos for persons-of-interest. The devs really went for immersion, integrating the UI/UX into gameplay and including real-life trivia to sell the illusion. The clues are sufficient, but you still need to make deductions to work out the motives, the sequence of events etc. for yourself. You might want to take notes. 5 cases in total.
I like the concept, the cases feel like an actual investigation, the overarching mystery/world-building is interesting, and the UI/UX is immersive enough. The problem is the English translation. I might be able to tolerate it in some other type of game, but it is unacceptable for a text-based mystery game, and especially for one whose core gameplay mechanic requires you to copy and search terms.
Even ignoring the usual weird grammar and sentence structure from Chinese indie games, there are mistakes such as:
"Junyan drinks a lot, party animal type. On the other hand, Junyan is the quiet type, never drinks."
"...no hope of winning. Still, he marked right into it, and embraced death at the..."
A character's profile can say "Occupation: Nurse", and then can say later "He came to our hospital for consulting and I was his doctor". The two text snippets here are copied directly from the game.
I don't know if it's the translator or the original, but somebody might have gotten confused between two different female characters who work at the hospital with the surname "Li". Just speculating here, so folks don't think I'M the one mixed up.
...and so on.
If you're playing the game in English, it can be immersion-breaking and frustrating at times to parse what the game is actually trying to tell you. If you play detective games, you can probably work out what they're trying to say, but damn, figuring out spelling mistakes is not the sort of mystery I play these types of game for.
The most irritating thing is that this is a fixable issue. Still, with the age of the game, I'm not hopeful the devs will come back and fix it.
Edit: So, after getting all the achievements and 100%-ing the game, I'm going to make the following changes.
Firstly, I'm going to change my rating to "Recommended". My previous problems with the English translation still stand, and there are OTHER problems that I found.
However, I can see what the devs were going for, and I gotta give credit for their ambitiousness. I feel people interested in a proper follow-the-clues, take notes, narrow down the possibilities style of deduction should play this game and see what's possible... even though the English translation might be a pain sometimes.
Next, the new issue I have with the game contains spoilers.
The devs are going for an immersive ARG-esque vibe for the game, which is gutsy. However, they don't really pull it off technically. If you're reading this and already know what's going to happen at the end: The app might not appear, and you'll have to know to navigate into the game files and manually launch it with zero prompts. It didn't for me, and I only found out when I was looking at a guide for that final achievement.
I'm also glad I got to experience the website, but I'm worried about future players trying to access it to discover who the mole is. Like I said, technical issues mar what is otherwise an amazing work of art.
In spite of all that, I'm literally just bought the sequel to this game. (Hopefully they polished it better)
So yeah, the game isn't perfect, but I'd recommend it anyway.
Steam User 0
I enjoyed this enough that now I want to buy the second game. The only complaint I had was that sometimes highlighting the words wasn't perfect; particularly if you accidentally included punctuation, like commas or periods. But that wasn't a big deal.