Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game

I picked this game because the hand-drawn art caught my attention, and I'm so glad I decided to give it a chance. The developers clearly put a lot of care and passion into making this little cozy game. You play as Mary during her first year at university, solving all kinds of everyday mysteries by exploring each scene, paying attention to the smallest details and connecting clues through logic. The puzzles revolve around filling in missing names, dates, and other details by carefully observing each scene, reading the information you're given, and connecting everything through deduction. Some chapters introduce little twists to keep things fresh, like matching people's names to their photos. Nothing ever felt like random guessing, every answer could be worked out through logic, which made solving each puzzle really rewarding. Some chapters were definitely more challenging than I expected, but the hint system is great if you ever get stuck. It points out mistakes without giving away the answer, giving you just enough help without taking away the fun. The soundtrack is honestly lovely and fits the atmosphere perfectly. The art is charming and adorable, and I really enjoyed following Mary's journey throughout the game. If you enjoy detective games, solving mysteries and giving your brain a fun little workout, I'd definitely recommend giving this one a try. And if you do, don't forget to look everywhere... there might be a cupcake sticker waiting for you! 🧁 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3755346267

故事纯日常流水账，美术略显AI（看了评论初版是有的），玩法就是找词填空，没啥难度，后期更是重复人名，不需要推就能填完，游戏体量不大，价格略贵，整体比较一般，一定要入手的话只推荐低价KEY。

I wish I could give this a mixed review, because I can see how some people will love this game, but I was unfortunatley not the among the target audience. It is a pretty, colourful, cozy, cute detective puzzle visual novel for a younger crowd and even if the solution is right there you still have to think a little before finishing the case. However, it feels very juvenile. I didn't find myself caring one single bit about any of these characters, and therefore I struggled to remember which face belonged to whose name and that was half of the case gameplay, tying faces to names.

Short type of game like under a few hours to 100%. Art style is cute and simple. Each case is connected to each other. Its nice that the player is forced to break down all the clues but having to organize them while solving the cases. Which would be perfect for the younger audience. However, fill first and last name every single time made it a slog. The character a bit plain, but I did enjoy that we got to see a ending and what the characters did afterwards. I was happily surprised about the date the main character Marry went on in the end too it was super cute. As for getting all the achievements, the player just makes sure to get all the clues and stickers. The stickers were hidden well in some cases. There are a few missables but at anytime you can replay a case, so no real worries there. Played great on the steam machine and with the steam controller

There is a [b]Big[/b] problem with 'Little Problems' and that is that the game is 'cozy' only in name, but the underlying gameplay is [u]extremely[/u] frustrating. First of all, the character's names do not carry forward across missions. This means that you will need to learn their names and fill them in every single time. I had to fill in the main character's name 10 times. By the way, none of the characters are remotely interesting, or even do anything interesting, which will make you want to remember their names even less. Between moving between the clues and back and forth to previous missions to re-enter their names, it really feels like you're taking an open-book exam. Not fun at all. Another bad design choice is that some of the answers are unnecessarily tedious to find or require a big jump in logic to reach. If you've played this game, you would know what I mean. The only thing going for this game is the artwork, but if you like cozy games, buyer beware.

As someone who has adored both Golden Idol games, The Roottrees Are Dead, and Confidential Killings, I knew I would enjoy another game with the "deduction fill-in-the-blank" mechanic. What I was not expecting was how adorable and happy this game is! It has none of the darkness of Confidential Killings, the sordid nature of Roottrees, or the insanity of Golden Idol - instead of solving murders and exposing affairs, we get to help Mary through her first year of college. Between the characters, art style, and extremely relatable story (my chat and I were reminiscing on our own college days), Little Problems puts ordinary mysteries at the forefront of its puzzles. I cannot recommend it enough! I finished the game in about 4 hours while on stream, which means it can likely be finished in a bit less time.

This was technically nice, but I did imagine the game to be a bit different than it actually was. I didn't expect the game to mostly rely on text. I thought it would be more observing (i.e. looking at images) and figuring things out, not reading and memorizing. I don't necessarily retain text very well, and while you can take notes, you have to switch back out of the solving screen to look at them, meaning you can't look at them at the same time as filling in your answers. All in all, this game feels a bit more like doing a test back in school. I also found it a bit hard to keep all the information about all the characters in my head because there are so many each chapter, and you learn little bits at once. By the time character A was mentioned again and you found out about their pet or whatever else, I was sitting there, thinking "Who was NAME again?". I think this game is okay if you are really good at memorizing things based on text, but if not, this is more of a "Let's look up the solution and copy it over".

26.6.5全成就通关，是一款物美价廉的推理游戏。比较生活化的解谜，可以沉浸式体验大学生活。这类游戏一旦开始玩，就尽快玩完比较好，如果隔一段时间再玩，就会忘记这些人名，要重新去记。 难度：轻微烧脑，不看攻略的话，自己多花点时间思考也可以解谜成功，实在不行就用穷举大法一个个试。猜萨拉的电脑密码和万圣节剧本杀保险箱密码需要多找找线索。 线索：如果不关掉设置，就会在线索处有问号指引，很好找。忘记前面的直接右上角点击，选择之前解完的关卡去看就行了。没有具体存档界面，返回主界面的时候会问你要不要保存。宠物医院猜动物说的话是稍微有点无头绪，演唱会线索有点细致，需要点进头像看这个人发的帖子。 画风：非常萌，很治愈，猫咪露娜和金毛狗狗本都特别可爱，族谱那关最后会介绍也是本的生日，以及怎么捡到他的。 配乐：挺恰当的，温馨治愈风格。 剧情：有很多细节和彩蛋，但是感觉关卡太少没用上，比如二维码扫了是游戏官网，我在游戏里记了一些人的生平喜好甚至信用卡号，动物们的年龄，园艺俱乐部的成员，雪松谷高中一起毕业的玛丽·格林斯诺、迈克尔·里德、萨拉·荣格、帕特里克·H，族谱那关有写奶奶也叫玛丽（看美剧经常有把尊敬的人名字用在孩子上的事情）都没怎么用到解谜中。感觉这个安德烈·霍夫曼肯定是喜欢玛丽，剧情选项我也选了让他们约会。 缺点：因为原版是英语，翻译过来有些线索就感觉有点怪，随便举个例子，比如“早上好”，可能“早上”和“好”各是一个线索；鼠标右键上下移动很不方便，如果能用滚轮就好了；在推理页面敲“空格”键即可返回调查，可能还有类似的贴心设置但是没有看到指引；推理页面的“提示一个错误答案”提示的很让人恼火，似乎有自己的提示优先级，比如右面的格子也有错的，但我先检查左侧格子，提示就会提示右侧格子；剧情似乎有不同线路和选择，但是只能体验一种，如果能重选选项来看其他剧情就好了。

Cute little casual Golden Idol that could. Not all cases are built the same; two or three were kinda annoying to get through, but I had fun overall.