The Case of the Worst Day Ever

Case of the Worst Day Every (henceforth abbreviated to CotWDE) is a game in the style of Golden Idol or Little Problems before it. Each scenario follows a different member of the <last name redacted> family, and your goal is to decipher why exactly everyone's day is awful. You'll do this by examining a scene, gathering clues, and slowly building your understanding of the world. CotWDE has a lot of charm. The scenarios that the characters find themselves in are creative and varied. The characters engage in a lot of friendly dialogue that is often reminiscent of real-life interactions! Don't let the cutsy art style fool you, though -- this game is quite difficult. It took me 11 hours to beat the 10 cases in the game, including one tutorial and one warm-up case. Most cases in this game have two parts: a "character identification" phase and a "what exactly happened?" phase. Unlike many cases in the other two mentioned games, CotWDE takes the character identification parts and cranks them up to 11; you'll need to cross-reference several clues (and weed out any red herrings) to figure out who's who. It can be pretty exhausting! The second half only starts to shine later on (and it really does get into some interesting stuff!). Overall, if you like Golden Idol-esque deduction, you'll probably like CotWDE, too! It really is more meaty than it looks.