Card Detective

神探饭店制作组 · Dec 14, 2023

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Players will take on the role of newspaper reporter Hazel Gong, who was originally covering a practice exercise at an abandoned building site, but stumbles upon a mysterious corpse in an accidental collapse!

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Critic 7.6 (3 critics) · Gamer 7.5

Critic reviews

3rd-strike.com
Jessica · Jan 21, 2024
8.2
Card Detective offers a title in the deck-building genre that isn’t a simple battler like we’re used to. The story is surprisingly engaging for something this simple, with a mystery that’s full of twists and turns, and we appreciate the amount of customization you can do with your deck. The gameplay itself lost its novelty rather quickly due to the fact we could breeze through whatever the game threw at us. While the interrogations eventually became extremely easy, we very much enjoyed the plot that unraveled.
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Softpedia
Cosmin Vasile · Jan 04, 2024
8.0
Card Detective combines two different concepts in an innovative way. Hazel Gong is the very model of an intrepid reporter, although the story she’s chasing is a bit mundane. And it’s fun to guide her as she chases the truth, either by asking direct questions or by carefully analyzing a subject. The card mechanics work well and there’s enough variety and space to craft decks and strategies. Some extra hints about how to best balance direct approaches and analysis would have been great to keep newcomers to the genre engaged. The title’s biggest weakness is the relatively mundane story and some difficulty spikes. Card Detective shows how the card-battler genre can evolve when combined with new approaches and offers complex card puzzles to solve.
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Noisy Pixel
Nathan Mejia · Jan 04, 2024
6.5
Card Detective marries noir and comic aesthetics, unraveling a murder case entangled in corporate corruption. While the narrative starts strong, it falls short on character depth and conclusive storytelling, with many characters feeling forgettable. The game's innovative card-based mechanic for uncovering truths and lies adds a unique twist to the detective genre, though it suffers from unbalanced difficulty and predictability. Despite these flaws, Card Detective remains a captivating, if not replayable, journey for fans of narrative-driven detective stories.
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