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Desktop Detective

by Conradical Games · Published by Playsaurus

★ 89%

Price N/A

Avg Players 242

Reviews 149

Released Coming soon

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Desktop Detective runs quietly in a corner window while you work or browse, letting you solve cases at your own pace without demanding attention. You'll gather clues, interrogate suspects, and crack mysteries through a gentle idle mechanic that progresses whether you're actively playing or not. It's designed for players who want a narrative-driven mystery experience that fits around their daily routine rather than consuming it.

About this game

Players, last 30 days

Peak 442 · Low 0

Daily peak concurrent players, sampled once a night from Steam.

What players are saying

▲ Recommended 1 hrs

A very early review for what I hope to be a smooth ride

Coming from having 100% completed the other 2 idlers of the same dev and spent enough time with the demo to instantly unlock 21 achievements upon start, I feel right back at home. You get, like in the other games from this dev, a few flaws:

Quite a lot of typos
Convoluted stats that I hope will make sense to a less smooth-brained player than me
Gear that seems to come straight from an adventure game. If I was a detective and EVER needed a stake, eyeball or magic flask to do my detecting, I would question my sanity

Nevertheless does it have ample unlockables, at least one fun prestige system, and achievements out the wazoo. And I hope or another forge system to maybe combine eyeballs and tentacles into the mighty Cthulhu (+500 Int, -999 sanity) or something like that. Then at least I would feel like solving crimes while hiking the mountains of madness.

I will change my review if I find something glaringly bad, and already presume you shouldn't buy this if you expect deep strategy or great lore. But if you're like me and just like to watch number going up for the old 'dorphins, then give it a go. It's a very fair price, and the demo already gives you a good taste of what's to come.

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▲ Recommended 1 hrs

The most productive workday of my life finished my quarterly report and cracked 15 supernatural cases

7 found helpful Steam ↗

▲ Recommended 1 hrs

Its cute so far fun idle leave run and progression which will take lot of time if you want something to pick at now and then during your day. You upgrade all sorts of skills you can equip various trinkets that boost skills you level up. Big fan of 2.5d atmosphere. Im human this isnt a AI review so if your looking for a fun idle price is great.

6 found helpful Steam ↗

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Latest updates

Rebirth Update, OUT NOW!

3 days ago

Hi everyone!It's been about 2 weeks since the last Desktop Detective update, but I'm happy to announce that we just released one right now! It has the following changes:Completely rebalanced the Rebirth bonuses. Instead of having 15 bonuses stretched across 75 Rebirths, there are now 20 bonuses for 20 Rebirths. So, we added 5 more bonuses, made each bonus stronger to make it quicker to climb, and made it such that you get at least 1 bonus per Rebirth!Increased max gear slots from 36 -> 45 through extra Rebirth bonuses.Fixed some typos.Improved the game's RAM usage. The game by default launches in maximum graphics mode, so if it's still using substantial RAM for you, try to reduce the graphics to medium, and lower your FPS to 60.Made it such that you can see gears' bonuses by just mousing over their buttons, instead of having to click on them.Fixed a bug that caused your clue gain to be displayed as negative if you had too many Forks equipped.Other small bug fixes.Thank you all SO much for playing the game so far! If you've been enjoying it, a review would be super helpful and is the best thing you could do to support the game.I'll see you soon, and I'm off to work on the game some more. Let me know what you think of it so far :)- Conrad, Lead Developer

So... Week 1 for Desktop Detective was crazy...!

20 days ago

Hi everyone!It's been about a week since release, and I can't thank you all enough for the crazy launch that Desktop Detective has had!We started at about a maximum concurrent player count of 74, but somehow, instead of peaking there like most games... The game has grown way beyond that!The Gamescom event also just started, so if you're attending and have access to Hall 4.1 B031/C040, make sure to visit us sometime this week!Thank you all SO much for playing the game so far! If you've been enjoying it, a review would be super helpful and is the best thing you could do to support the game.I'm off to the booth, but see you all soon :)- Conrad, Lead Developer

Desktop Detective, Daily Update 3 OUT NOW!

23 days ago

Hi everyone! It's day 3 of daily updates, and we're still going strong! Below are the patch notes:Added a keyboard shortcut with the "M" key that allows you to toggle muting the game easilyFixed a bug that caused your detective to get stuck in certain maps after the last updateFixed a typo that showed "Mutliplier" instead of "Multiplier" in some stat descriptions that lingered after the first fixFixed a bug that caused tools' money values to be shown in regular notation despite the scientific notation setting being turned onThank you all SO much for playing the game so far! If you've been enjoying it, a review would be super helpful and is the best thing you could do to support the game.I'll see you soon, and I'm off to work on the game some more. Let me know what you think of it so far :)- Conrad, Lead Developer

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