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Desktop Detective

Desktop Detective

by Conradical Games · Published by Playsaurus

★ 87%
Price N/A
Avg Players 87
Reviews 179
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 68 days

Peak 442 · Low 59

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.
7 found helpful Steam ↗
▲ 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

Desktop Detective's first major update... MOD SUPPORT!

22 days ago
Hi everyone!About 2 weeks ago I posted about Desktop Detective's upcoming first update, and I'm SO happy to announce that it is out RIGHT NOW!It adds mod support to the game, so you can make your own custom, detectives, gear, locations, level bonuses, rebirths, and more! You can basically make your own expansion pack, and download others' creations too!In order to enable mod support, do the following:Launch the game after the update, wait a second or two, then close it.Open settings.sav in C:\\Users\\YOURUSERNAME\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Conradical Games\\Desktop Detective while the game is closed and change the "modSupport" value to true.Now, upon opening the game, mods will be active! There are a few examples to get you started, you'll find them in the C:\\Users\\YOURUSERNAME\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Conradical Games\\Desktop Detective\\mods folder.If you're a MacOS user, the mod folder will be located at ~/Library/Application Support/Conradical Games/Desktop Detective/mods/.That's it!Make sure to join the Discord to check out what other people are making and share your own creations!(P.S. This my badly drawn OC, "Inspecteur" that serves as the mod example)We still have more in store for Desktop Detective, including official content, but I thought it'd be a nice way to kick off the updates with something as impactful as this!Also, as always, if you're enjoying the game, I would REALLY appreciate it if you reviewed it. It's the best thing you can do to support the game if you're enjoying it!Anyways, that's it for this post, and I can't wait for you all to play the next update when it's ready!- Conrad, Lead Developer

On Desktop Detective's Next Update!

40 days ago
Hi everyone!It's now been a month since Desktop Detective's release, and now we're preparing for the first big update!I've made a form to help with this, and I would really appreciate it if you could fill it out, it should only take 1-2 minutes!Here it is: https://forms.gle/wKf82xW3wHcb57gU7Also, as always, if you're enjoying the game, I would REALLY appreciate it if you reviewed it. It's the best thing you can do to support the game if you're enjoying it!Anyways, that's it for this post, and I can't wait for you all to play the next update when it's ready!- Conrad, Lead Developer

Rebirth Update, OUT NOW!

49 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

Posts come from Steam's official announcements feed.

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