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Detective Story cover art

Detective Story

LTZinc · Conglomerate 5 · 2021-01-22

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 22, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Detective Story - is a simple quest game, with hardoce elements, where you play as a detective Harold. You look for clues, interview witnesses and collect everything to clear a crime.

Detective Story is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2021, priced at $4.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (60% of 99 reviews) and an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000.

60%
positive of 100 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (30 reviews).
  • · Top 40% of 28,833 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 100 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2022-12-05) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 12 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320212025Week of 2021-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.282021-01-222026-07-272021-01-22 — best price $0.592021-05-12 — best price $0.492021-07-09 — best price $0.492021-10-28 — best price $0.492021-11-24 — best price $0.492022-01-27 — best price $0.542022-03-28 — best price $0.542022-06-06 — best price $0.522022-08-15 — best price $0.492022-10-25 — best price $0.492022-12-05 — best price $0.282023-01-16 — best price $0.282023-03-16 — best price $0.282023-06-30 — best price $0.282023-09-14 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $0.492023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-03-14 — best price $0.492024-05-13 — best price $0.492024-07-15 — best price $0.492024-10-28 — best price $0.492024-12-20 — best price $0.492025-02-17 — best price $0.492025-03-31 — best price $0.492025-06-26 — best price $0.492025-08-25 — best price $0.492025-10-27 — best price $0.492025-12-18 — best price $0.492026-03-19 — best price $0.492026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-07-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

2DActionCasualComedyHorrorClickerStrategyTop-DownAdventureDetective

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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