Gumshoe Detective Agency: The First Case

I'm a big fan of cozy mystery games (and have played every ND game plus Roottrees, both listed as inspiration sources for Gumshoe), and this was a fun game to spend a quiet evening with! I will also always go out of my way to support independent developers in their projects because I want the cozy mystery/adventure game community to thrive! Shoutout to the NDRevival subreddit for keeping me up to speed on upcoming and new releases. The difficulty level is fairly easy and thus the game was a quick play, but it was still enjoyable. While there is no copy-paste (as others have mentioned), I did enjoy (and prefer) taking pen and paper notes to keep track of my leads. I love the old school 90's web interface, and I especially enjoyed the digital version of sneaking past locked doors. I think this was a really solid first installment of hopefully many future Gumshoe mysteries. I'd love to see a more expansive storyline, more searchable queries and red herrings, buried ledes, and just in general more dots to connect! This game definitely had those, (plus some fun puzzles!), I would just love to see more in future games. Bravo to Birdy Interactive on their first game, can't wait for more!

I cannot wait for more! I loved this style of game, I was so excited that this type of research came so easily to me, finally a use for all my weird Gen Z internet research abilities and nancy playing skills. There were some knots in a few places, but the only one that really became a problem for me was the shape and color puzzle, since there were multiple answers to the puzzle I got a little frustrated. Other wise, THIS WAS SO SO MUCH FUN TY TO THE CREATOR, BIRDY!