The Roottrees Are Dead (2025) – Jeremy Johnston, Robin Ward

It's The 90's. You, the Genealogy Genie, are just figuring out how your new Cashew computer can help you untangle family trees, when a newsflash comes up on your TV: The Roottrees are Dead. The current scion of the family-run company has died in a plane crash, along with his wife and daughters. The Roottree candy empire and its fashion company offshoot may be world-famous, but this hardly affects you. Then there's a knock at the door, and a mysterious woman offers you a…

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The Rise of the Golden Idol (2024) – Color Gray Games

I've always been meaning to sprinkle a few reviews of mystery games onto the blog, but haven't got round to it until now.The Rise of the Golden Idol is a sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol, which released in 2022. That was a game which I did enjoy, but found frustrating at times. The basic gameplay remains the same between the two titles:On selecting a case, you're presented with a scene, paused at a particular moment (to be exact, it's like time…

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The Case of the Thinky Game Jam!

When I began this blog, I'd intended to write about detective games as well as books and short stories. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get round to it in 2023, but I hope to make up for this in 2024! I'll make up for it a bit right now by introducing you to a raft of new short, mostly free, detective games made by small teams or even a single person. Many of them are even playable within your web browser. I don't know…

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