Star Seeker in: the Secret of the Sorcerous Standoff

the mystery was pretty clever

This is an investigative / deductive murder mystery with a humorous wizard theme that can be played in one or two sittings. It takes under two hours even if you decide to mess around a bit - the game gives you a lot of opportunity for that, because everything you can try has unique dialog (sadly not voiced, but this is a small indie project). I had a lot of fun and the mystery has some unique twists - I really like this type of rules-based magic where you look for loopholes in the rules, some people call this "hard fantasy" by analogy to "hard SF". The whole game seems like something that could have more episodes, but it has been a while, so I don't know if any more will come out. This is a self-contained, standalone mystery though. I think this is a really underappreciated game, even though many people are looking for deductive mystery games these days; I think it came out just before those got big. I'd definitely recommend it. Star Seeker seems to be nonbinary btw, definitely a plus for me :) ____ Source of the game: Bought it with my own money

Short, but lovely!

If you're looking for hidden gems on Steam, here's one! I tried it because it's short, taking me about two hours to finish. You play as a witch helping solve a case involving dead wizards. I like that you slowly develop your hypothesis; the crime you're solving is also original. It's well-written, although I either missed a story beat or the characters assumed I knew a piece of worldbuilding I couldn't have. Furthermore, it opts for silly jokes when it can't think up different dialogue; even lampshaded, that's an not endearing habit. All in all, I can see myself playing more of these. Clearly a lot of love and talent went into it; that they wrote dialogue for every possible hypothesis is mindblowing. I hope the devs are out there creating cool things.

I'm just gonna add my positive review to the already existing ones. It's a short game, but very fulfilling. Funny writing, cool sprites, incredible music. The puzzles are overall fairly logical. Sometimes I was just guessing, but you get rewarded for wrong answers with new dialogue, so that's just fine by me. One thing that confused me: I didn't really get why you'd want to turn off evidence. I guess it makes your choices less cluttered. At the same time, if something comes up again, you'll be glad you didn't turn off that option. Being able to wander around a mind map of evidence was quite helpful, though. So I like that as a visual aid, even if it doesn't really have a gameplay function.

The goat goes "maaaaaa". What else can I say?

Short but sweet - everything is good, leaves you wanting more

很有意思的魔法推理游戏，主角随便举证时编的弱智理由十分好笑，希望还有会续集。

OK I LOVE this game. It's so good, the sense of humor is impeccable, and for the most part the logic is fairly easy to follow (at least to me, less so to my mom, who also played this). I will say the one thing that is vaguely hard is that if you miss a piece of evidence that's important, you won't know it (although you CAN check the lightning bolt mind in order to see if you missed anything). Also there is a goat. I love the goat. If you don't know if you want to play this game: Yes. yes you do. Nonbinary Wizard Murder Mystery, what else could you possibly want?

I want more. I am sad there was only one case.