Duppy Detective Tashia

This game was a charming experience, loved learning about the duppies and the character design was awesome. Not a difficult mystery solving type game, but a short and sweet story based experience that has replay value.

A charming experience just like you'd expect. Fulla vibes and culture. if you like point &click mysteries this will be your jam

Duppy Detective Tashia is a wonderfully whimsical dive into the Caribbean! It's got a great cast of charming characters, and a delightfully cozy mystery to boot! I am having a wonderful time with this visual novel so far, and you can tell the amount of love and soul poured into this. Highly Highly recommend for fans of Ace Attorney and the like.

I played this given the excitement I saw around it and the mention of Caribbean Folklore. It was a very quick interactive visual novel, but I enjoyed my brief time in it. I was drawn in by the funny characters and the hand drawn art and the conversations. I appreciate seeing some Jamaican dialect, too. Some real love was put into this and it was wonderful to see representation of Caribbean tales and influence. However, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say this is more than just an interactive visual novel and appears to be this teams first go attempting mystery and a point and click. The story is too linear to feel like you are in control of what's happening. While there is some deductions happening via our main character, I came to a completely different outcome at least once and was disappointed I couldn't choose a different culprit. There were no real point and click mechanics beyond navigation, so I feel that is extremely misleading. While you do go to places and uncover clues, you don't have to search for them or choose the right one. Lastly I was disappointed that little energy was put into the inclusion of the stories of the entities you came across. That was the main reason I immediately bought this game. I was hoping for something deeper, but it was all very surface level and while the characters certainly had personality, they didn't necessarily need to be associated with the Folklore. Overall, there isn't enough decision making/deduction and interaction in the right ways to put this on par with other mystery point and clicks, but I'd want to see this team try again. All that said, I don't want to punish the developer for not quite hitting the mark tagging wise, but I'll recommend this solely for those looking for a fun, quick interactive visual novel that's outside of the norm.

Duppy detective Tashia is a fresh take on Jamaican lore and culture with new imaginings of classic Jamaican duppy. If you want a bit of Jamaican through a modern lens look no further Duppy Detective Tashia is for you.

Cute, short, silly. Actually a little more depth than you might initially think, as there's incentive to not only talk to people at locations, but inspect locations while people are not there... Overall, it feels like more could be done with more intentionality of the characters and the setting, it feels like a great unique place to start from where it would be easy to expand on the characters, their narratives and their world. As written, this currently feels like an introduction to some potentially interesting characters. As a couple of quality of life items, it could use some explainers for the lingo, just highlighting specific words for those of us who don't know the words-sometimes you're just rolling on with no idea of what a person just said. And in the final episode there's currently a continuity error where [spoiler] when you first meet Sly, Tashia says 'I thought we banished you...' but I didn't banish Sly in my playthrough. [/spoiler] Cute and fun, worth picking up for the little quick romp it provides.

Played over my launch break and this is a really interesting and fun game you should defiantly give it a shot

These couple characters grew on me pretty quickly with their quirks and interactions. Enjoyed the time I spent figuring out what was what. Looking forward to the next chapter.

A delightful, adorable, and enjoyable game! The art is wonderful and the characters are fun! I can already tell I'll be playing this multiple times.

Well, it finally happened to me. I always thought that folks who were like "I wish there was a neutral review" were in a bad spot and was glad I never got there, until tonight. Look, I LOVE the animation at the beginning and the other animations throughout are nice, I love the take on Jamaican culture and language but there just is not a lot here for $8, even with multiple choices. I'm still giving it a positive review because I liked the characters, animation work, music (as sparse as it was) and having multiple choices. But most of them feel unnecessary and one of them is flat out ignored in favor of the story's plot which felt rude. I LIKED this game, but it's not a strong recommendation from me, sadly. I also got some annoying audio pops here and there that were irritating, but overall no major bugs.