Forensics: Crime Scene Detective

Super bad tutorial hand-holding, I was utterly confused on what to do within the tutorial 2 of the game... after I analyzed the fingerprints then... what else did the game told me to do? nothing. Stuck in this phase for almost half an hour with literally no goals to achieve (well I mean there is but the game is super suck at letting the players know) Gameplay is good sure, I really enjoy detective games but this game feels so........... clanky. Sorry, I have to refund this.

I was on my way to confirm that Dexter was the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bay harbor butcher..... But I had gotten stuck on the mission shooting mishap with no way to progress, even starting a new game. I need the devs to release a patch to fix the mission bug, I need to catch the bay harbor butcher.

es wurde mir empfohlen und ich muss sagen, zu Recht, als fanatischer Krimifan finde ich es toll in die Rolle der KTU selber zu schlüpfen. Es macht mir viel Spaß obwohl ich schon "etwas älter" bin.

Sometimes the game is a bit tedious, having to match tons of fingerprints manually and having some of the matches somehow not be correct despite them being exact (which has been worked on, and I'm grateful for that). The game is truly fun to play and work through the cases as the guy behind the desk working just with the evidence. I'm really looking forward to more cases coming out and hopefully a bit more in-depth ways to solve cases.

Positiv: Das Spiel macht wirklich Spaß. Die Zusammenarbeit mit dem LKA Rheinland-Pfalz merkt man an den realistischen Methoden. Spurensicherung und Laborarbeit sind super umgesetzt. Negativ: Der Umfang ist extrem enttäuschend. Es gibt insgesamt nur 7 Fälle (mehr tauchten nicht auf), wovon 4 reine Tutorial-Fälle sind. Wer logisch denkt, ist nach knapp 3 Stunden komplett durch. Aktuell ist unklar, ob noch neue Fälle per Update oder DLC nachkommen. Fazit: Für den Preis ist die Spielzeit einfach zu kurz. Wer das Gameplay mag, sollte unbedingt auf eine Sale (unter 10 Euro) warten.

[i]So, first of all, for transparency - I am somewhat linked to the studio as I do some freelance (and also voluntary) work for them, but I'm not part of the studio. Also, I got the key gifted because of this. If the game would be bad, I would just shut up instead of praising it though.[/i] In Forensics - Crime Scene Detective, you're working as a forensics scientist. I think that's the closest way to describe it. You collect evidence on the crime scene and then analyze it in your laboratory. You have currently four ways of getting that evidence: electronic devices, finger prints, DNA samples and ballistics. The game currently has 4 tutorials and 14 cases which you can get done in 12-20 hours, I'd say. Some of these cases are linked to each other, partially through location, partially through some people being involved multiple times, but all cases are based on real scenarios the German state police investigated on. In terms of gameplay loop - for me - it's a mix of two things. First, you are at the crime scene. Tension there, for me, is higher than in the lab. You can go there as many times as you want as long as you're working on the case, but you, or at least I, don't want to miss things. Then second, in the lab it's a bit more "cozy"? I don't feel as pressured as I do at the crime scene and just can take my time to analyze everything as precise as possible, as precision matters to get a higher rating. [b][i]Concluding all of this:[/i][/b] I definitely can recommend this game to any forensics/crime loving person, as you get plenty of interesting cases. And devs let it shine through on discord that there might be more cases in the future.

People complaining here that you don't get to investigate any of the cases.... NO ♥♥♥♥ SHERLOCK A forensics team doesn't solve any cases they COLLECT EVIDENCE shocking i know You want to solve cases but can't get over that little conundrum on your own huh

Might just be me but the tutorial I was stuck on the heating the chip part for like half an hour cuz the tiniest corners needed to be reheated constantly it wasnt immediately dislodging. Also I failed like 3/4 tutorials as my cases were insufficient evidence was gathered and conclusions werent made. I made sure like 10 seperate times that my evidence was infact NOT matching and then the game just said no you were wrong?? I even looked up a tutorial of the tutorial on youtube and literally that guys evidence was indeed matching. Mine was 100% not and still failed. Like Im not going to play a game if its constantly saying I failed even when I read everything right and did everything right. It does run really smoothly and could be fun. I just also thought I needed something more than just looking at the evidences. It just felt like it lacked the storytelling part. The evidence gathering was actually fun and photographing etc. Game just needs fine tuning imo. But it could also just be that the game is supposed to be only the forensic analysis part of crime and not much story.

I had bought this game but requested a refund. The game runs okay but it is unbelievably surface level, there's about 6 different ways of collecting and analysing evidence. There's no story or anything connecting cases, the crime scenes feel like shells of nothingness and completing cases doesn't even feel like you've accomplished anything because again, the analysing is so surface level and most of it is done just waiting for things to decrypt or DNA to run through the sampler. It just kind of feels like another simulator Aerosoft have pumped out to capitalise on the love and rise of sim games. The game also is buggy, for me there was only 4 tutorials (which were awful and did not explain really what they wanted you to do) and 4 levels which were all simple and boring. Honestly Crime Scene Cleaner was unironically a better forensic game than this. (I 100% at least 3 of the 4 levels) I thought more would unlock but none did.

Too much focus on realism left the game unfun and the devs are unwilling to compromise. There's no inventory system, so you can't hold more than one thing at a time. Picking up and putting down objects takes forever. Moving is extremely slow. There is no way to save the game other than the autosaves, so if you mess up and want to try something again, you can't! And this is really important because the only way to progress the game is to get high enough ratings in your case files. I don't like to write negative reviews, but I will have to caution anyone against playing this until there are some major changes in the approach to the whole project.