
A deceptively difficult deduction game about one very unfortunate family. Revisit their worst moments, form your own conclusions, and solve this silly yet challenging mystery.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Aug 25 → 0.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
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About
A family is gathered for a cozy celebration, but everyone looks miserable! What happened here? Who are these people (and pets)?! And why are they so unhappy?!?

From the family dog to the grumpy grandma, peek inside their unfortunate lives and investigate the events leading up to the party.

Scour each hand-drawn scene for clues that point to identities, motives, and misadventures. Don't let the cuteness fool you! You'll need to read carefully, snoop thoroughly, and get ready to put your deduction skills to the test!

Form your own conclusions across 10 challenging cases full of mishaps, betrayal, and mayhem! Do you have what it takes to solve the Case of the Worst Day Ever?
KEY FEATURES:
Increasing Difficulty - from easy-peasy to truly brain-teasing, get ready to hone your detective skills
Hint System - feeling stuck? use the in-game hint system to get back on track
Fill-in-the-Blank Conclusions - use the words collected throughout each case to form your own conclusions
In-Game Notepad - keep track of important clues with the in-game notepad
Lighthearted Cases - enjoy humorous, slice-of-life mysteries without dark themes
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Reviews
Developers delivered on "deceptively difficult" but a lot of that was because it didn't look difficult at all. When your expectations are cozy game slop it doesn't take much to earn that label. Another reviewer mentioned this but it bears repeating, Worst Day leans far too heavily into SAT questions that insult your willingness to suspend disbelief. Are you for real telling me that the order that kids were marching across a stage was written out as "a zebra went last… no cheetahs went before or after each other… colin was fourth…"?? Or that a kennel would make up their own names for dogs and use that to assign medication?? It feels like the developers gave up on actually constructing mysteries after the midway point and just passed the buck to the SAT prep manual. The last half's "difficulty" is almost entirely the quantity of extended logic chains set up to identify a dozen people at a time. I was able to solve the underlying mystery long before I put together who everyone was (or what cakes they made, or what costume they wore) which made slogging through identifying them even more tedious. Another really annoying bit of tedium (that's our buzzword for this game now), there are a lot of cell phones and it takes four clicks to get into a message. Really should've pulled them into a UI element somewhere. No other clue source takes that many clicks to get through. It sounds petty but you’ll get to a point where you start a new case just bracing yourself for the 40 clicks to open all the text messages and get your clues while all the other clues together take 15 clicks to get through. I got it on sale and the first few mysteries were worth the price. I love a good red herring and the developers clearly know how to write red herrings in… so I don't get why they fell back on giving us homework towards the end. Also would’ve been nice to get something more than a 15 second animation after solving all the cases.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
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The Case of the Worst Day Ever schafft mit seiner einfachen Comic-Grafik und seiner augenzwinkernden Geschichte eine sympathische Spielerfahrung, die ich allen Deduktions-Spiel-Fans hiermit ausdrücklich ans Herz legen möchte! Die kleinen Komfortfunktionen wie das automatische Aufsammeln der Stichworte sowie deren einfache Sortier- und Filterfunktion haben mir gut gefallen, ansonsten läuft es spielmechanisch fast 1:1 wie bei den Golden-Idol-Spielen ab. Was in meinen Augen richtig gut ist! Die vollständige Spiele-Besprechung findet ihr hier: https://www.dasklapptsonicht.de/the-case-of-the-worst-day-ever/
Surprisingly difficult game. I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
This game is terrific. It needs more players! The art style may be a little on the simple side, but the cases are well designed and fun. There's not much of a story - it's just for people who are looking for some interesting deductive scenarios that are willing to be a notch more intricate than when you'd get from Golden Idol or others in the space.
Great game just wish there was more of it! Puzzles were really good and got progressively harder so it was a really fun challenge. Please make more!!
What a terrific puzzle game! This is in the same vein as Case and Rise of the Golden Idol, where you view a scene or group of scenes and fill in the blanks about what happened, but with more everyday stories. I really enjoyed my time with and recommend it to anyone who likes these types of puzzlers. I would play as many of these types of games by this team as they care to create.
Humorous and challenging - very fun and highly recommend.
Fun deduction game.
Very cute detective style game if you're into that whole Golden Idol, Obra Din thang but want something a bit more gentle and cozy. Looks gorgeous. Puzzles are fun (and kind of hard but I suck at this genre so take that with a grain of salt). Five hours well spent!
This game is way too cute to be as difficult as it is. Love it
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