
Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir.
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It's cheap and it's fun.
This game gives me a solid puzzle to play when I don't have time to sit down for hours and play another game. Each mystery is about 15 minutes long, and there is usually a bonus challange you can try, make so much money, use so many lockpicks, etc. It's got a swanky soundtrack. Also there is not much handholding which I respect. I had to figure out a lot of the mechanics by playing through a few times. I recommend figuring them out instead of looking them up. Unfortunately each mystery is the same even if the culprit is always different. In one game mode, one of the houseguests did it. In the other, an occult serial killer is on the loose. Almost every clue is binary, and from there it's process of elimination. The killer is a poet or artist, an artist or chef etc, a cop or a civilian, a civilian or a mobster, a woman's fingerprints, etc. Suspects give you tips on people or locations. They have no individual personalities themselves, and you don't question them. So gameplay is limited, and it feels more like a logic puzzle game than a full fledged mystery with characters and a plot driving the puzzle. Worth getting for a couple of hours of fun, and maybe complete the achievements. Characters will try to shoot you through walls and doors, otherwise i've had no problems with bugs.
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This game has a very cool concept. Not much story or progression (rouge-like) but the gameplay is very fun i hope this procedural detective concept can be improved even further by other games. note: I recommend this game for mobile devices that is where i play this game most. Because of this the playtime currently shown for my profile of 0.9 is inaccurate I would estimate it is closer to 7 hours or more if you include mobile playtime.
It's bad... Just... Very, very bad...
Great idea but unfortunately it doesn't quite make it. The detecting never really makes sense and it's all just luck.
Pretty fun game.
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"You have starved to death" .. While I didn't see that one coming, I hoped for a little deeper plot twist from a noir themed game...
Tags: Sidescroll - Survival & Questing Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Backtracking oriented hotspot exploration with a lot of procedural dead ends. MSpaint noir universe is a bit limited. Cardboard cutout depth. Procedurally generated sidescroll point&click dialogue content that leads you down to identify one suspect which you gun down. Keep fed and try to beat the clock as civilizans die every day. Turn based. Board-game like. 14 days, visit locations until you run out of days. Interact with npcs and objects to grind clues and cash. Try to cross reference clues to narrow them down. Once you narrow it down, find the person on the clue that you believe is the killer (somehow), and use the gun button, presumably winning the game. You get a hunger bar which is a annoying. All suspects, clues, and most interactions feel identical every time, just with randomly generated names. Locations are okay, setting is okay, and interface is okay once you warm up to it. Main issue I have is the procedural generation is not very engaging and it just feels a little bit aimless and artificial. The limited audiovisual appeal does not help matters much either. Conclusion: Altogether this is sort of a more expanded, exploration oriented version of something like Hidden in Plain Sight. I like the concept and it is somewhat engaging. It does a good job at showcasing that but too many layers of polish are missing to make the title really worthwhile to hold on to or sink time in.
fun little detective game, highly recommend
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