The Detail
The Detail, a crime noir adventure in a modern American city. Controlling the actions of a bitter veteran detective investigating a brutal gangland murder and a reformed criminal trying to protect his family, the player is forced to make tough choices and deal with the resulting consequences of those moral dilemmas. The gameplay focuses on branching narrative mixed with interactive comics, and is completed by a professional audio track. The Detail combines the emotional impact of Telltale Games' The Walking Dead with the themes of a realistic crime drama like HBO's The Wire, delivered with our own unique visual style inspired heavily by graphic novels. This is city where cases matter, clearance rates matter, and on a good day even justice matters.
Steam User 30
Foreword
This was on my backlog list for a while as an incomplete game. I remember finishing the first two episodes only while I barely began with the third and last. Going back I found it strange that while the 3rd was the last in what is referred to as season it was also the most interesting. As it ends in a cliffhanger I was very disappointed since I already knew there will be no more episodes (seasons). So this is a word of warning that while The Detail is a great point-and-click game it remains incomplete.
Comic book
It is an interesting adventure game with comic book style presentation. This sometimes means black-and-white scenarios which certainly give the story a noir feeling. The unique presentation is mainly apparent during cutscenes - otherwise you would call it simply cartoonish.
On the go
Gameplay-wise this is a very linear game. You do not really have multiple locations to visit (at HQ you can use the elevator to visit several floors but other than that the game is pretty linear). You can interact with objects and talk to people (or look at them first) and pretty much that's it, all done sans inventory. The story has you control two detectives (one being a veteran) that are part of a special police unit. You have everything here that you need for a good story: corrupt cops, by-the-book cops, corrupt politicians, gangs, prostitution, falsified evidence etc. The branches the store page refers to are barely existent. Yes, there are achievements that are only unlockable if a certain decision was made in a previous episode but you would really need additional episodes to see the fruit of your decisions.
Issues
See foreword. This is an unfinished game with otherwise great characters and story. And while the music is great I do miss voice actors here. Also, there are 1 or 2 locations that are bugged and do not allow you to continue - this requires a complete restart of the episode.
Other than the above The Detail is a great game. Too bad it is incomplete. It reminded me of another gem with similar fate: Blues and Bullets.
Steam User 3
Interesting and good game! It is like crime movie and you play different character trough it. You can choose things that change how story goes. Art is very unigue and music is good. Last episode have some bugs in it that make it get stuck and need restarting many times.