Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

***DO NOT BUY THE GAME.*** I read all the reviews and saw some folks had issues with save files. Looked around and it looked like if you properly quit the game it should save and you wouldn't run into the issue. I bought it on the 26th and binged most of it for nostalgia (although it's not one of the better Carmen games). Play for 5 hours in between doing things. Went today to play the final level and, even after doing everything right, my save file was gone. Requested a refund, citing the save issue, and was denied because I had the game open for more than 2 hours. Very disappointed that this has not been fixed for as long as it's been reported and that the policy doesn't account for anything other than time played.

Didn't like it, not like the old Carmen Sandiego sadly. Wish they'd remake Where in time is Carmen Sandiego?

Having grown up with the classic "...Is Carmen San Diego" whether its USA, World, Time, History. I wanted to have something similar to have my kids play with and hopefully learn something at the same time. The old style was you find out that Carmen and her VILE crew stole something important and disappeared into the world. You had a week to find clues for a warrant and find out where they went to next. Usually by the end of the week you found out it was some criminal with a pun name like Upton Ogood e or Kit N Caboodle. Then recovered the goods and advanced up the ranks from Trainee to full time agent with the final mission before retirement being trying to get Carmen in the same week's time with some high profile prize like the Crown Jewels of England or the faces from Mount Rushmore or Telescope from Magellan. So i fired this up and instead of being shown the "Welcome to Acme Detectives please register agents", i am thrown into some cut screen which was a PITA to skip out of until I found it was the space bar. No settings ability, no menu. Just a quick "Register your player" and boom into the game. Looks like instead of stumbling around finding clues of the various henchmen we start with hunting the master criminal from the get go, there is some backstory that i didn't really get about an experienced agent who knew Carmen back when she was a member of Acme. While there is a trainee who is all the tech guru. Also now instead of trying to find clues for the henchmen, instead its trying to find clues for a warrant, its finding clues to solve silly puzzles like a anagram puzzle or a cipher puzzle. Which even for me as an adult for a couple of these made me frustrated. It also appears that this game isn't random series of "Find VILE henchmen X with object Y in place Z" and that can vary with a basic RNG setup. Instead we get, based on trying to look up some clues on how to find some of the clues for the puzzles, the same case progression no matter who is going where and how. There is some larger plot going on beyond finding Carmen. That I really wasn't invested in. Last reason for not liking this and wondering when we would get the classic back. The game is loaded down with a ton of animated cut scenes. Which on the first time you can't seem to skip and in others get repetitive if you have missed some clues and reactivate areas and head back after finding the misusing clues. There are as said before some puzzles which seem silly and very note age appropriate for a game of this type. All of that, makes me say that you shouldn't keep this and this isn't the classic Carmen Sandiego games that a Gen X'er grew up on . This is some abomination that it isn't a surprise that the game is cheap out there.

This game is broken and doesn't save properly. This is apparently a known issue for years. I do not recommend it because it is not working as it should be. Unless you want to sit down and power through a Carmen Sandiego game in 4-8 hours or leave your PC on for days, you should avoid it as well.

This game does NOT save your progress. Don't waste your money.

I loved this game as a kid and i played this and its great. when i tried to save it deleted all of my progress and i have to start all over. I am very disappointed since i made it to the third mission.

As others have stated, you can't save your game. Should be pulled from steam. Bummer since the game seems to run perfectly otherwise. I saved it, closed the game and reopened it to check, and my save was still there. Came back a few days later and it was gone. If you want to play this, use an emulator like Dosbox or a windows virtual machine instead.

Save game bug still exists as of 3/2026.

Um jogo fantástico, para quem gosta de geografia e desvendar mistérios esse é o jogo mais indicado.

When I downloaded it, it wasn't the version of the game I was expecting. But it was still nice to see the older style of Carmen San Diego game. I hope they'll continue to release the original games. I had fun playing this.