Разработчик: LizardFactory
Описание
Because the murderer is among these people, and you are the lucky detective assigned to this mess of a case.
It's about the satisfaction of catching someone telling a lie, and getting every little detail out of a conversation.
Gameplay
Tell Me Everything is a text-based short-story adventure game, with a word-puzzle on top. It's a game about pushing your luck and gathering information to catch the killer.Features
- The game currently contains the first episode with three variations.
- Simple point-and-click action. Can be played solely using the mouse.
- Hint system available if you are ever stuck.
- Mood-meter to track the suspects four breaking-points.
- 11 calm jazz soundtracks.
- New episodes in the works.
Episodes
- Episode 1 : The Porcelain Paradox
The storekeeper of an antique store is found murdered. - Episode 2 : The Horrors of Hospitality
A hospital is shocked when a body turns up. - Episode 3 : The Fiscal Freefall
Another murder strikes at a local bank. - More episodes in the work
Expectations
The murder mysteries are written to be around 30 minutes each, and since the game has a huge amount of dialogue, it is sadly not fully voiced.Currently, the three case variations stack around 1-2 hours if you push through, and around 4-5 hours if you like exploring all the possibilities.
The graphics are crude, and the gameplay is simple. It is meant as a thin-mint of an interesting story, not a massive game.
Is it niche? Yes. Might this game not be for you? Maybe.
But for those who love unraveling mysteries, I hope you are up for a challenge or two.
Spoilers
Since this game is a murder mystery, we politely ask all streamers and YouTubers to either not reveal who the killer is in each case, or at least let your audience know that there are spoilers ahead.Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP
- Processor: 1.7 GHz Processor or better
- Memory: 128 MB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 8600 / Radeon equivalent
- DirectX: Version 8.1
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 300 MB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)
- Processor: Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better)
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 8600 / Radeon equivalent
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 300 MB available space
Mac
- OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8 and above
- Processor: 1.7 GHz Processor or better
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, Intel HD 3000 or higher
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 300 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
- Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 300 MB available space
- Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card
Отзывы пользователей
Great idea but bugs make it unplayable, developer not interested in fixing them.
Interesting concept. Ahead of its time. Basically unplayable as-is, but a ground-up remake would be awesome.
Game is so broken and buggy that I can't reliably do anything without another problem popping up out of nowhere, I've had the game bug out every 5 minutes, no exaggeration, it is NOT stable in the slightest, and they were always MAJOR bugs, from save deletion, to not being able to access anything. The game is abandoned anyways so there's not much hope in the bugs getting ironed out sadly.
27 Jun, 2024 @ 10:05am (Decide to give it positive due to dev finally responded)
Hey, wanted to thank the dev for noticing my message at Discord to get the main bug fixed. Hope new updates coming soon!
26 Dec, 2022 @ 4:21pm (Negative Review)
??? I wanted to solve the mystery but the suspects can't understand English.
I wish I could recommend the game because it's very fun despite somewhat slow and clunky gameplay. The problem is that it's incredibly buggy. Out of the 9 cases, I've only been able to play one without game killing bugs and it doesn't seem to be supported whatsoever by the developer anymore. Bummer.
A great concept, brilliant really. Possibly an over-ambitious concept, to be honest.
The single person dev had some bad life stuff happen, I think, and despite some promises that the rest of this game would be finished eventually, it's unfinished and extremely buggy past the first chapter. This game is at least half-dead.
Nevertheless! I think it's worth checking out anyway, just to see what they were trying to do. It's pretty cheap.
Fun idea but buggy, with a counter-intuitive interface that moves slowly. Impossible to win two variations due to major bug that refuses to produce constable's dialog boxes.
I really like this game, and wish I could suggest it, but I just can't. Currently, pretty much only the first case works. There's a bug with the constable that stops the other two from working. It's just not worth it to buy a game so broken that you can't access two thirds of it. If this ever gets fixed, I'd gladly review this game positively, but until then, please don't buy it.
This is an interrogation simulator -- you're given a crime to solve and question persons of interest, with choices of words and phrases to choose from as you pursue your line of questioning. The concept is great and during the beginning of its release the developer was clearly passionate about this project, pushing constant updates with new content and fine-tuning the parse vocabulary. However, updates have fallen off, with only one update in the past year.
That said, at the current cost of admission of less than a dollar, the game is still well worth the buy.
Interesting and has quite the story although i ask the suspects simple questions they cannot understand almost like im interacting with children still its a good and simple game.
So... I really do like this game. Don't get me wrong, it has it's fair share of bugs, and it can be absolutely mind-boggling trying to figure out what to say, but it just oozes charm. While I would definitely say there is a degree of frustration present in the game, it actually works and comes off as rather pleasant. I liked trying to suss out new words and new pieces of information. This is a great game to play in short doses, when you are in the mood to be an armchair detective.
My biggest complaint is the flow of the case plots as new information is uncovered. The first time I found the culprit it was completely on accident, and I had no idea how the detective figured it out. It seemed like the villain just confessed out of the blue.
Overall: it lacks a little polish but it's great fun and definitely worth the price.
fun interesting game but i had to restart every 20 minutes because the first dialogue at the witness interview pops up again and again after each answer.so i got annoyed and stopped playing lol .u better fix it
This imediately caught my eye due to my love of mystery games. I really enjoy the way you have to be inventive with your questions, and think outside the box on what to ask. After six hours I finally finished my first case and now have a better grasp on how to play. When I first played this game, I won't deny I found myself at times getting frustrated or lost due to not having the words available to ask what I wanted. However, I now find myself breezing through questions and unlocking key words very quickly. The developer is very responsive on the feedback suggestions. I made a suggestion and not even 24 hours later they informed me that they implemented the phrase into the game. The art style is very nice. So far I really enjoy the story, based on the case I completed. I can't say I have ever come across a mystery game quite like this, in a good way. Definitely one of my new favorites.
Since purchasing this game upon release the developer (Gecko?) has truly listened to the community to improve the game beyond what was already an interesting and unique detective mystery puzzler.
This is one worth purchasing early as more content is to come and I expect great things from it.
Bonus points for allowing community contributions to dialogue options. ('My Name Is Mr Torture' I laughed for a good ten minutes, thanks for that)
It simply isn't fun, especially when there's sometimes only one path to follow that can be broken or contradictory.
For a buck, it's a decent bit of fun. The dialogue still needs more work, and its a bit frustrating that the game doesn't give you the option to prod some glaring contradictions in suspects' stories.
The concept is very interesting but sadly the execution is less than optimal. Many things should be improved, but my major problem with it is that It can be very frustrating when a witness clearly contradic himself but you dont have any real way to confront him about his lies. If it was an early acces I would recommand it but has a "complete" game there is just to many thing that still need to be improved (like a notebook that list all the question you've already asked and their answer). Maybe wait a little bit for the game to improve...
I enjoy this game, still haven’t solved any of the variations.
There is however a lot of unnecessary clunk when picking words, for example, you have to manually click the words you already chose to un-select them, I think making Backspace undo it would be much better.
Also perhaps some better layout for the words, or what would make me even happier would be an “available” word search, type in a word and have it pop up some words that match the letters you’ve already typed in. This would really make this a lot more enjoyable for me as I find myself spending 80% of my time searching to even see if the words I want can even be used.
Another bug I’ve noticed is sometimes the system won’t even restrict words, so I could for example keep selecting violin, violin, violin, and on top of that the blue highlighted words that are there to show you the location of the last word you picked would also fail, which is again why Backspace would be much more efficient.
I love the idea and do enjoy this game, but it is a bit tedious in its current state and it does cause my eyes to strain searching for those pesky words.
Please devs, strongly consider implementing my suggestions as it will make the game so much easier to play.
Tell Me Everything is a detective simulator where you are questioning 3 suspects in order to solve a murder. You basically make sentences from a word bank based on the clues that you collected. I was admittedly a little confused with the gameplay, mostly because your choices are very limited to a specific subject. So far I find that playing with hints (on) makes the experience more enjoyable. You still have to decide which suspect is guilty so having hints does not completely ruin the game, it just makes it a lot faster. If you blame the wrong character the game is over, plus you need enough evidence to support your claims or the murderer will get away. I like that uncertainty aspect, it is hard to tell if you have reached the conclusion.
Each character has attributes such as frustration and confusion. I am not sure how much impact they have aside from giving a game over. I just try to stay away from maxing them, It would be cool if high anger could trigger a different dialogue though. I like that you can get several achievements by asking stupid questions that are not related to the case. The interrogation is a very interesting concept and I personally liked the humor. There are some occasional spelling mistakes, but I thought it was tolerable for the most part (English is not my first language though). Also, it needs some updates like better shortcuts to avoid wasting time.
Pros:
+ interesting concept that provides a detective expereince
+ character attributes that have some impact
+ achievements for some dialogue jokes
+ consequences for blaming wrong guy with lack of evidence (game over)
+ the narrative is interesting in my opinion
+ on/off hints
Cons:
- very limited choices, too hard without hints
- UI needs some shortcuts and evidence summary
- occasional spelling mistakes
- not complete yet
Overall Thoughts 6/10 (8/10 with proper updates and more content)
This game managed to escape my harsh criticism by being $1, but I genuinely like the concept and I think it has some space for improvement. It is very difficult without hints, they don't completely ruin the game so you should just keep them on. I don't think that I ever played an actual detective game, this was new and exciting experience for me. With more content and more possibilities, it can be decent game.
Review By: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/31294838-Hidden-Gem-Discovery/
Game is incredibly broken, a lot of dialogue options just won't work despite making perfect sense making the game incredibly frustrating to play and progress.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | LizardFactory |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 52% положительных (25) |