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The Midnight Crimes

60% positive of 20 Steam reviews

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Released
2024
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by DeadlyCrow Games.

About the game

Point-&-Click Adventure with Deck-builder Cards Combat, Play as a retired detective investigating a missing child case while facing your past demons. Explore Midnight Cove, Victorian city with semi-open world mechanics and characters relationships. The story is episode-based, chapter by chapter.

Tagged by players

  • Noir
  • Detective
  • Alternate History
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Point & Click
  • Card Battler
  • Text-Based
  • Card Game
  • Multiple Endings
  • Incremental
  • Story Rich
  • Open World

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    The good: The world is very novel and interesting. Stylistically the game looks great. The story thus far is captivating and I'm looking forward to more of it. The bad: (all of this being my personal opinion) It's no wolf among us. The first chapter feels very empty with little to interact with. Choices do not seem to matter much up to this point. Little things like mouth animations to match the voicing are way off.…

    1.4 h played when written. 17 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    The vibe seems great and there's definitely potential but "Chapter 1" is less then you get in most demos. There's no sense of the story or the game play loop. You can finish it in about an hour and have barely done anything in that time. You don't "investigate" anything, you have a few conversations that lead nowhere, can find a few "fights" and go back to bed. The game has good potential but the decision to release…

    1.1 h played when written. 7 found it helpful.

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