Discovery Yard Investigation

Great detective game and walking sim. I enjoyed finding clues and reading the notes and solved 4 of the cases. Very addicting and always on the edge of your seat to find out what happens. A must buy! I can't wait for more cases!

Wow this is bad. First, the writing is something I would expect from an elementary school student. The controls make no sense. You can crouch, jump, and lean left and right but there's absolutely no need to do any of these things. The camera runs out of film but they give you 2000 refills. You read that correctly. 2000. They don't auto refill, though. You have to go into your inventory and manually refill the camera "paper". There's a flashlight. Not sure what that's about since everything was very well lit. The room design makes zero sense. There's a bedroom with two giant sacks of potatoes for some reason. The developer clearly put a ton of effort into the game but it could have used a lot more thought instead.

This is an insanely boring indie crime investigation game with poor optimization, frame rate issues, lots of pop-in textures, copy and pasted rooms, graphic settings that do not save, and gameplay that feels empty and dull. It's just a lot of walking around opening doors and reading notes. Turning on televisions in the first level also drops the frame rate down to 30 fps for some reason. This is simply not a quality game and I cannot recommend it at all.

Too many bugs. Development appears to be an ongoing project. Very interesting in concept but frustrating to play.

There is no 'maybe' to select would you recommend, clearly the game has potential it is a bit buggy, there's some texture issues and a magic spoon that changes when you get close to it and the language meant to explain and guide is not very clear. When you think you have it figured out or can't find more keys etc to get in anywhere else you go to a keypad on the wall and die slowly if you get the answer wrong. Just think about that, you are investigating a murder and if you get the answer wrong YOU die?! Why would you die? Why does your boss not call and pull you out marking the case as unsolved? Not only do you die it seems but you bug out at the end and get stuck and have to Alt F4 to get out out of it. The descriptions could be far better about the numbers used to put in to determine the findings, I'm sure the experience would be far smoother if you ticked boxes on a clipboard, in your investigators notebook or something, equally, you have names and weapons, I guess you're suppose to no worry about motive, but heck no one give you a definition of what the game determines as 1st murder or Manslaughter. No indication if you are partially correct or not either. The general populous out here have committed neither of these so how n the game would we know what the criteria is for each? Are you meant to be able to open everything? Who knows, and when you take photos, or someones shoes or coat etc, you have to remember where that was, if you were really investigating would you not write the location on the photo? Also loading the Polaroid every 5 photos is so tedious, ours took a real of 20 when i was a kid, I spent more time reloading the camera than anything. There are places in the mansion for sure which are very out of reach, you can jump on things but a photo doesn't always work. You can run, basically pointless but cuts down time a bit, jump on some stuff, but leaning, servers less than 0 purpose, i can' use it to squeeze in places, you can crouch but again no point to it. Initially I liked the idea of some info being available in the form of a bonus clue until you find something else limited, until I was interrupted and then couldn't recall the name. So saving provides 0 benefit as well. You can't skip the intro even if you already played so it's slow to set up, there's some nice music then all that stops and you're left to wander just the sound of your own feet, door knocks and squeaky hinges. After the second one with missing evidence and no more keys to find have manged to complete one but rather frustratingly. You might consider this game if you don't mind things that don't make sense, buts, glitches, and mystery

The developer needs to reassign the controller buttons. After wandering around without encountering much of anything at all the game became uninteresting to me.