Obscure

Chinatown Detective Agency

71% positive of 121 Steam reviews

To finish: 9 h
To 100%: 19 h
Released: 2022
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam, GOG, Xbox / PC Game Pass, Amazon

Made by General Interactive Co.. Published by Balor Games, WhisperGames.

About the game

Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.

Tagged by players

Trivia
Noir
Detective
Crime
Investigation
Cyberpunk
Dystopian
Point & Click
Mystery
Dark
Multiple Endings
Female Protagonist

What players say

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Chinatown Detective Agency

71% positive of 121 Steam reviews

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To finish: 9 h
To 100%: 19 h
Released: 2022
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam, GOG, Xbox / PC Game Pass, Amazon

Made by General Interactive Co.. Published by Balor Games, WhisperGames.

About the game

Tagged by players

Trivia
Noir
Detective
Crime
Investigation
Cyberpunk
Dystopian
Point & Click
Mystery
Dark
Multiple Endings
Female Protagonist

What players say

Recommended
Chinatown Detective Agency approaches the detective genre with an unusual philosophy: solving a mystery should sometimes require more than clicking every highlighted object until the correct answer appears. Developed by General Interactive Co. and published by Balor Games and WhisperGames, this cybernoir adventure places genuine research at the heart of its investigations. That decision gives the game a distinctive…
14 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Recommended
I really enjoyed this game, and honestly, I don’t get all the hate. I found it to be an intelligent game, and I loved that the puzzles actually require you to do real-life research. Some of them were surprisingly difficult (like the Sumerian numbers puzzle) even when you’ve got Google. I also enjoyed the dialogue, and thought the voice acting was great. I’m glad they kept the Singlish and the different accents for…
22 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I am from Singapore and wanted to like the game. The art is outstanding, the music is good and the game generally works (by this I mean it didn't crash and wasn't buggy). However, the game disappointed in many other aspects. As some others have noted, the game is shoddy, There were typo errors (eg aneurism) and subtitles not matching voiced dialogue. In the same conversation, some characters are voiced but others…
8.4 h played when written. 75 found it helpful.
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