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New England Detective: Breakfast in Boston cover art

New England Detective: Breakfast in Boston

Little Black Book Entertainment · 2019-06-07

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 07, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A tale of treachery, beauty and passion, don’t miss the first installment in the New England Detective series. NED: Breakfast in Boston is a crime mystery detective visual novel with an intriguing dating sim aspect.

New England Detective: Breakfast in Boston is a 2019 Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation game priced at $4.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (60% of 30 reviews) and an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000.— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

60%
positive of 30 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 67% of 28,808 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320192025Week of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing2 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2019-06-07, latest 2020-06-28 (Steam store data)

Census log

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