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Couch Detective

57% positive of 19 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Gamtropy.

About the game

Couch Detective is a text-based deduction game hosted by AI. Ask questions to uncover bizarre yet logical truths. You can also feed the AI your ideas to generate new puzzles and share them with friends.

Tagged by players

  • Typing
  • Trivia
  • Detective
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Text-Based
  • Level Editor
  • Dialogue Heavy
  • Crime
  • Investigation
  • Word Game
  • Puzzle
  • Stylized

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    While this is a cool idea, the game is buggy. It is supposed to answer no/yes/irrelevant truthfully. There was one puzzle where is kept saying "no" to my questions but when I checked the notes where it keeps all the relevant answers, suddenly all the answers said "yes". But when I solved the puzzle, the solution showed that the notes were wrong. Example: Me: "was he murdered?" AI bot: "no" Hint notes: "he was…

    48 min played when written. 8 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Couch Detective is a collection of situation puzzles. The player types in questions, and an AI host answers yes/no/irrelevant. CD is not the first game to do it, but still, this idea is possibly one of the most interesting uses of AI in games we've seen thus far. To complete a puzzle, the player needs to switch to answer mode and provide a short summary of the solution. The AI can give more elaborate answers than…

    19 h played when written. 8 found it helpful.

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