
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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Each storefront's own chart, in its own country — the closest public signal to sales where none is published. A country missing from a list is one we don't collect there, not one where the game doesn't chart.
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 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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
Database Detective is a very unique game that more than likely has no equal - a detective game a-la The Roottrees are Dead/Return of the Obra Dinn, but where you write SQL queries to help you in solving each case. The game is very goofy & tongue in cheek, so if you're not expecting a serious story & good with that, and enjoy detective games and either know SQL or want to learn it (the game has a manual which is quite good), this game is perfect for you.
Decent puzzle game, don't be afraid of SQL, everything is well explained
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 757 reviews with recorded playtime.
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This is so fun for someone learning SQL :D Great humor, nice voice acting; just an amazing concept. Would recommend.
The demo made me better at my day job, I think the full game is going to get me a promotion. Incredibly well-done and hilarious. Thank you!
This game is so much fun, I would highly recommend it even if you have no previous SQL experience! I did not know any SQL before this game, but each case does a great job with building upon the previous one, the difficulty ramp feels well designed and the community in general is great at helping out other players who get stuck!
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Gonna put this on my resume as SQL experience whenever another interviewer asks me about whether I have experience using SQL.
[h3]Hard but very satisfying[/h3] The difficulty progression is great, and even though the last cases can take hours, they never feel impossible. It's also very funny.
I tried the demo in Next Fest and loved it so much I had to come back for full release. It was as advertised in the best way. Not only have I picked up learning enough of the basics of SQL to feel dangerous using it in the real world, but my wife actually said I've never looked and sounded hotter. In fact, I've been turning the heads of many women around me. So many women. SO SO MANY WOMEN. I had to build a database to keep track of them all. AND GUESS WHAT, I can query that database effectively and efficiently thanks to this game. God, I've never been hotter. Buy this game.
I love the way this game merges Roottrees-style investigative gameplay with SQL-based puzzles. As someone who had never used SQL previously, the in-game manual and assistant were enough for me to figure it out. That said, the game is definitely difficult in a good way! It's very satisfying when you write your last SQL query and end up with only one possible answer.
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