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Mystery Case Files: Prime Suspects™ cover art

Mystery Case Files: Prime Suspects™

Big Fish Games · BFG Entertainment · 2010-04-21

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 28, 2013 (Nintendo DS), Apr 05, 2006 (Linux), Apr 05, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 05, 2006 (Mac)

The Queen's Hope Diamond has been stolen! It's up to you to search for clues throughout 22 levels, find the offending culprit, and recover the stolen gem. Expand your investigations through the game's 29 unique locations by finding items that will unlock subsequent levels.

88%
positive of 98 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
11h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)
Mystery Case Files is a video game series originally developed by the internal studios of Big Fish Games. Sequels were then developed by Elephant Games between 2013 and 2014 and Eipix Entertainment between 2015 and 2019. The newest installments have been developed by GrandMA Studios since 2020. The Mystery Case Files series is known for its hidden object puzzles where, in order to progress through a game, the player plays the role of a Master Detective and must find a certain number of items hidden somewhere on a painted scene.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 11,994 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.9k–7.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 98 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162026Week of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$23.74$2.442015-01-012021-01-052015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-03-19 — best price $13.492015-04-17 — best price $15.952015-04-29 — best price $15.952015-05-18 — best price $16.492015-09-10 — best price $7.472015-12-18 — best price $3.732016-03-02 — best price $14.952016-05-10 — best price $14.952016-07-04 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $3.492016-12-22 — best price $2.442017-03-21 — best price $19.952017-07-05 — best price $6.992017-09-11 — best price $14.952017-11-28 — best price $6.992017-12-20 — best price $7.472018-01-19 — best price $7.472018-04-09 — best price $7.472018-06-01 — best price $7.472018-07-05 — best price $6.992018-08-30 — best price $7.472018-10-19 — best price $7.472018-11-01 — best price $6.992018-12-20 — best price $2.442019-02-15 — best price $7.472019-04-19 — best price $7.472019-06-25 — best price $3.492019-07-09 — best price $6.992019-10-05 — best price $7.472019-11-26 — best price $2.792019-12-07 — best price $14.952020-01-04 — best price $14.952020-07-09 — best price $6.992020-12-01 — best price $6.992021-01-05 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2061212026-06-09 — 160 pageviews2026-06-12 — 148 pageviews2026-06-15 — 143 pageviews2026-06-18 — 171 pageviews2026-06-21 — 156 pageviews2026-06-24 — 123 pageviews2026-06-27 — 177 pageviews2026-06-30 — 133 pageviews2026-07-03 — 149 pageviews2026-07-06 — 138 pageviews2026-07-09 — 141 pageviews2026-07-12 — 184 pageviews2026-07-15 — 155 pageviews2026-07-18 — 148 pageviews2026-07-21 — 132 pageviews2026-07-24 — 135 pageviews2026-07-27 — 124 pageviews2026-07-30 — 154 pageviews2026-08-02 — 186 pageviews2026-08-05 — 141 pageviews2026-08-08 — 171 pageviews2026-08-11 — 151 pageviews2026-08-14 — 130 pageviews2026-08-17 — 178 pageviews2026-08-20 — 145 pageviews2026-08-23 — 163 pageviews2026-08-26 — 136 pageviews2026-08-29 — 147 pageviews2026-09-01 — 138 pageviews2026-09-04 — 157 pageviews2026-09-06 — 154 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualHidden Object

Census log

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

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