Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division

This is the first time I'm leaving a steam review but I enjoyed it so much I need to recommend it even though I haven't finished yet haha I think started the demo at around 7:30pm and then went to bed at 5am because the game is so fun. I really appreciate how there's not just one way to come up with the correct answer and how the complexity slowly ramps up with each case. The overarching plot and world building is really interesting!! With amount of care put into all the art and the little funny details I'm continuously noticing something new and giggling.

Zoran, meu ditador, meu governante. Eu aprecio tudo o que Zoran fez por mim e minha família. Zoran nunca causou mal, e nunca errou em todo o momento que me governou. Obrigado por tudo.

Enjoyed the humor peppered all throughout the game. Found this format of using SQLite to solve cases fun and engaging. Would recommend to all! Suggestions: Add more SQLite in the learning chapters such as other join times, nesting, and other functions. Maybe add more to optional learning in the chapters. Add more data into the table to make it more difficult to brute force answers and create more of a balance of the ratio of research vs using queries.

I knew absolutely nothing about programming when I bought this game. Picked it up on a whim, and it's honestly one of the most fun games I've played in a long time. It genuinely makes me want to smoke a cigarette and drink whiskey on the rocks while staring at my monitor trying to organize my tables trying to find the bastard. Currently stuck on chapter 6 as I am writing this.. good pick up regardless of your programming background.

peak

Fun mystery detective game, with good (dark) humor. I enjoy me a coding game, and the fact that I don't know SQL made it even better. I'd say that the game is about 50% detective game, 50% SQL, although I suppose for the SQL experts, that ratio will be different. Absolutely loving the game, have even shown my children bits of both the deduction and SQL. Recommended to anyone who likes solving mysteries and would like to learn a little SQL along the way.

5/5 Best Dictator, Best Game, No Massacres

peakness

Excellent game, wish it was longer.

Probably more like being a real detective than most detective games where you walk around with a gun and a magnifying glass. You don't have to know SQL to enjoy this, the game holds your hand as it gives you examples of what to do. You then have to figure out how to swap out the info you are working with for the info in the examples. Seems easy but requires lots of thinking and some logic. Very rewarding when you figure it out without having to ask for suggestions from the game.