
Bell also criticized the game for frustrating moments, noting that puzzles could sometimes "feel like doing homework". Alice Bell, in a mostly positive review for Rock Paper Shotgun, praised the game for its "different take on tired cyberpunk settings" as well as its cast and use of puzzles.
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The full game was then released on April 7, 2022.Ĭhinatown Detective Agency received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. The original demo was succeeded by an extended prologue, subtitled Day One, on Steam and Itch.io in September 2020.

The game features voice acting, with Singaporean and Malaysian voice actors cast for all the Singaporean characters. A Kickstarter campaign for the game was successfully funded the following month, on April 28, 2020. Ī free alpha-level demo was released on Itch.io in March 2020. The studio released its first game, Terroir, in 2017, and began development of Chinatown Detective Agency that year. was founded in 2016 in Singapore by Mark Fillon, though its team is now based around the world, including the United Kingdom and Brazil.
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Gameplay also involves more traditional video game puzzles, such as code breaking. Similarly, the use of outside knowledge or reference resources is necessary to solve the game's puzzles, and factual trivia is occasionally presented by the characters. As in Carmen Sandiego games, players travel to various countries to accomplish various tasks and trail criminals. The gameplay is heavily inspired by the Carmen Sandiego series. As she solves cases across the world, she begins to unravel a web of conspiracies back at home. Subsequently, she takes on a series of cases from a wealthy heir to return stamps from his philatelist father's collection to their originating countries. Following a referral from her former boss, her first case is for a businessman trying to locate an accountant who has fled the country. The game's main character is a former Interpol officer named Amira Darma, who is beginning a new career as a private investigator based in Singapore's Chinatown district.
