Confidential Killings
Just finished Confidential Killings by BRANE & Lorenzo Boni yesterday. Set in 70s Hollywood, you're cast as a detective investigating a series of murders.
The graphics are stylish and look very comic booky in a cool way, but sometimes I found it a little hard to recognise a character from one scene to another. That's on me though, what with aphantasia etc.
While I applaud the devs for creating a series of interlinked cases (murderboard!), Confidential Killings was too short, too easy, and much too simplistic for my tastes. It’s an investigation game with gameplay consisting of clicking keywords in testimonies, statements, and documents, and then arranging those keywords in various ways, either to complete a story, or tag characters or recordings with the correct names. The structure felt too limiting, and as though I had training wheels on at all times. Feeling impossible to muck it up, it just wasn’t much of a challenge.
Steam claimed players like me love this game, and cited both The Roottrees Are Dead, and TR-49 in the “More Like This” section, so my experience was hobbled by my too-high expectations. I loved both those games, and sadly Confidential Killings fell short in delivering the same enjoyment.