
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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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!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 160 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 160 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Feels like a great game with a good art style. 4 chapters in and I'm enjoying it without any prior knowledge of SQL
Finally I found one good game after a while. Great job developer.
One of the rare games out there that made me like puzzle genre more.
Noice.
Amazing Game! Great UI, funny Humour, great learning curve. Man this game is just awesome
I know the absolute SQL basics, but nothing beyong that. Not only does this help gaining a better feel for SQL, but I find the game incredibly satifying. The scenarios are funny, yet the puzzle work is real. A wonderful little gem.
Took a crash course on SQL in college so I am not going in blind. I can see this game being challenging to those without some patience and ability to RTFM. This game reminds me of the puzzle difficulty of Human Resource Machine with some of the charm of Kingsway for the MS 98 appeal, Hypnospace Outlaw for some of its fun easter eggs, and Duck Detective for its voice acting. Altogether it is a fun combination that has me excited to 100% the achievements.
Genuinely this is a really fun game if you're a nerd like me. I really love the mechanic of having to use SQL (and getting to learn it in my case!) to sort through all of the data to find who you're looking for. The game is obviously light-hearted, but some of the puzzles here are a lot tougher than I expected. My main critique is the hint system. With how long the animations last for, it's a little tedious to click through all the text boxes until you get to the one you need to see, and there are some puzzles/queries that don't have any hints for them (eg: for the last case, there are hints for every step leading up to the final query, but there are no hints for the final query itself, and that was the part I needed the most help with). That being said, I still really enjoyed it! The art style and melodramatic voice acting are my biggest stand-outs because of how well they establish the tone of the game. All hail our great leader Zoran, who has definitely never committed any war crimes!
What a unique game! Love the humor.
This game is great for solidifying SQL concepts. I use SQL in my career and think the way this game teaches SQL structure is fun and interesting. Love the puzzles and hope to see more from the devs! Great work!
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