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Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows

98% positive of 50 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Sungazer Software LLC.

About the game

A thrilling detective mystery adventure set in a historical fantasy world. As a dragon detective, use your six senses to find evidence and hunt down the culprit.

Tagged by players

  • Detective
  • Crime
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Point & Click
  • Visual Novel
  • Investigation
  • Hand-drawn
  • Logic
  • Colorful
  • Adventure
  • Casual
  • Mystery

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Very enjoyable detective game set in an interesting world. As you play through the cases, you learn more the world around you and the people who inhabit it. Each case is self-contained, but also ties to a larger mystery. The clues, intuitions and hypothesis systems you use to solve the cases work really well. I wasn't as much of a fan of the conversation challenges, which felt a little more forced, but they offer…

    20 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    After having played a bunch of mystery games and Ace Attorney-likes, I gotta say, this game is a solid 8 to 8.5/10. The characters are all great with clear degrees of depth, the art is charming, the music fits the situation, it's all worth seeing and playing for yourself. The cases themselves are all well written with a good sense of progression. Things evolve naturally, and there's no point where the main or side…

    27 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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