
Solve criminal cases through the power of SQL queries! Help out the city of Los Zorangeles by becoming a Database Detective in this new (unpaid) work from home opportunity.
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No United States chart position — it charts only in the markets below.
Same day: best AU #89, worst UK #97 · 2 markets collected
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 5/day in the week to Sep 11 → 24.86/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About

There’s been a backlog of unsolved cases piling up in the Minor Crimes Division of the Los Zorangeles Police Department and we’ll need a Database Detective to help solve them.
We’ll need you to analyze clues and manipulate data using SQL, a database querying language, to figure out who perpetrated crimes from as minor as littering to as serious as not checking out of a hotel after the check-out time.

Don’t worry! This role is intended to be accessible for those without any SQL experience, so each Database Detective is given an introductory textbook when they start! This short textbook is less than 20 pages and explains everything that’s needed to solve each case.
If you still have trouble writing queries, our comprehensive error messaging system will tell you exactly where your query went wrong, making it easy to correct your mistakes.
Still not enough? Each Database Detective is assigned an assistant who’s ready to answer any questions you might have, whether they be about the case itself or the SQL queries you’ll need to write!


Understanding how to manipulate data using SQL is not the only part of being a Database Detective! Your job will also require you to piece together evidence and clues, just like a real detective! Further on in your Database Detective career, you’ll have to sleuth through the internet and piece cases together yourself.
Fully voice acted mission briefings at the beginning of each case!
Fully hand drawn art for you to enjoy!
More than 40 websites to explore!
10 cases for you to solve, each case getting longer and more complex!
A total of around 8-10 hours of valuable work experience to add to your resume!
Engagement
Reviews
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Reviews
Génial
Highly, highly recommend this game! I rarely review games, but this one is so unique. I was excited to find another programming game to end my evenings with, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover it's genuinely as much a detective game as a programming one. I wish it were longer, but that's more a wish than a critique. If I had to critique anything, it'd be the difficulty spike moving into chapter 7. It felt pretty abrasive, and I almost ended one of my sessions because it seemed too grueling to hold my interest after gathering the initial info. That chapter really felt like a divergence from everything before it, though I get that the early game is more of an intro to SQL than anything else. I couldn't be happier that I pushed through, though, because that level and the ones after it REALLY show you what the dev was going for, and WOW, was it good. Back to why I wish it was longer: I have no SQL experience, so even through chapters 7 and 8, where the game starts trusting you with the mechanics, progress was slow because I kept flipping back to the manual. That said, by the end I was JOINing tables and running functions with ease. I just wish I could've used those new skills for longer once the language finally clicked. I'm sure there are plenty of harder puzzles that could be built on this concept — but I digress.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 778 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Logic puzzles, SQL, and even [spoiler]circle maths[/spoiler] in the later cases! What more could you ask for as a break from a day job in data analysis?!
Amazing SQL primer and so, so much more; a puzzle game that scratches that data analyst itch WE have! Maybe the funniest game I have ever played! Hope my Steam review doesn't become part of a dataset in the game lol
Solid game. No need to guess or brute-force anything (except maybe some queries if you can't write more complex ones cleanly). But all information is properly deducible, just be careful not to mis-type anything, or you might waste a few hours going down out-of-the-box rabbit holes you didn't actually need to traverse. Thankfully, the game lets you click names and so on to copy them to your clipboard, and after learning the hard way, I highly recommend using it. Submitting [spoiler]"Toney" instead of "Tony"[/spoiler] in one case left me thinking I missed something until I retraced all my steps from the beginning and realized I had just made a typo. Anyway, great game. Near the end it is much more a detective game than a SQL game, but the blend of the two was done very well in my opinion. My only complaints are window management; it can get really cluttered if you don't like minimizing or closing old windows proactively, and sometimes the active window got stuck under another window so I had to exit to menu and return to fix it.
This game is awesome! Played the demo and was so excited that I instantly bought it. The levels get increasingly harder but when you crack it, it's rewarding. Zoran is awesome! I mean, he is okay overall :)
Amazing, waiting for the sequel about restoring crashed prod DB in 2AM
Amazing game, it helped me get prepared for my SQL exam + to relax afterwards. The crimes are silly, but still tricky to figure out, especially the last one. I love it, 10/10 Zoran is my one true leader
Very good writing and quite funny. Spec-accurate SQL so it's a very good way to learn it. I love this game
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