Nice game, has a little bugs but otherwise great
Sat Dec 24 2022 heyitsnotelainaDownloaded this while i was searching through netflix games, because i have Stranger Things the game downloaded and completed it! BOTH games are amazing, seems like netflix knows what it’s doing with graphics and storylines. The only disappointing things about this app are:
1. There’s only two stories. (Each has about 5-6 episodes). One is about “AllMyFans”- copy of “OnlyFans” so this does include sexual material, and can be uncomfortable to watch. The other one is the 1st story you will read. It’s about a boy being thrown off a tower, includes gangs and threats, so the trigger warnings are needed as i’ve seen. The bug i have seen is the auto cloud save, hasn’t saved for me and i’ve had to skip parts of episodes due too it. Best thing i can say is press the option that says “not save”. It saves anyways.
Good but many issues
Fri Dec 15 2023 Babyboomer1084838Firstly, I love this game because it really feels like your a detective and your piecing things together, it’s like your traveling to another dimension. However, my experience always seems to get interrupted by the bugs. Sometimes it doesn’t allow me to sign in and I have to wait a very long time. The app says my password is incorrect and an hour later I come back in and sign in and then it finally allows me into the app even though I’m putting in the same password as before? In addition, the site freezes sometimes during conversations and it really messes with the vibe. When these freezes happen that’s when I get logged out and I cannot sign back in. But, when I do sign back in my progress gets messed up and the stories get super glitchy and I have to move onto another story and then that story freezes and then the process repeats. These glitches are very frustrating and I really hope the Netflix team fixes this because this game has so much opportunity to be great but there’s so many issues which downgrades the experience rating from me. I don’t think it’s just me because other reviewers also say the bugs are frustrating which is such a shame because they also say this game is also very fun and has so much opportunity.
Hope this helped new players to understand what they are downloading 😂. I also hope this reaches the attention of the Netflix team because I love this game but I just get incredibly irritated with the bugs. Thxxx
Fantastic Game!
Sun Oct 29 2023 Coors75As a true crime lover, I was honestly completely blown away by this game. The twist and turns were excellent in both episodes that I watched, kept me on the edge of my seat and really stretch the brain. Another thing I really like about it is that there’s such psychological and human depth to these stories, whether you’re interacting with certain witnesses and people going through emotional things, or seeing the real effect that solving cases like this in real life have on the police I don’t think I ever really appreciated the challenges of police officers in dealing with murder investigations. One night after going to bed after completing one of the games, I couldn’t stop thinking about what if I had done things differently if it would’ve turned out differently, not wanting to give out spoilers, but it felt so real. It really does weigh on you I can’t say enough about this game and I absolutely can’t wait for them to put up new episodes and I would absolutely pay for it. I’m ecstatic that it’s available through Netflix but I would pay every month to have this game! Please make more episodes soon!
Great storytelling & well produced!
Fri Jun 30 2023 KatyLynnI downloaded this game from Netflix and am so glad I did! Both stories, Dead Man’s Phone and Unmasked were SO well made and had great production value and storytelling. The real actors and images completely drew me in, and found the endings of both to be quite a surprise. There are multiple endings depending on your decisions made, and I found myself wanting to go back and play for different outcomes. The dialogue was a little cheesy at times, but overall really enjoyed these games! I will say I went and downloaded the regular Scriptic app to see if they had more games, but the two there (Dispatcher & Dark Mode) were MUCH shorter, anthology-type formats, so not quite the same enjoyment. I feel like Dark Mode has potential to be made into longer story formats and could be fun. Hoping the app continues to release more stories at the higher level of production and game length!
Great game, lots of issues
Thu Jan 19 2023 shealilian23LOVE this game! The interaction of this game hooks you in and makes you feel as if you’re actually a lead detective solving crime. But, there are many issues that I’ve found while playing that pulls you back to reality. When I close the app, sometimes it will not save my progress and I’ll have to completely restart an episode, which is annoying. Sometimes the videos do not play, which isn’t a huge issue, but it feels like it defeats the purpose of the game. The last issue I found was that I closed the app when I was playing the alternate ending to the first story and lost my progress. I tried to restart the episode but the “alternate ending” was just the ending I received the first time I played the story. So, I would have to completely replay the story to view the alternate ending I was supposed to get. Again, love this game and I could play it for hours. But, I would like to see these issues fixed because they really mess with the game experience.
Good experience becoming an investigator!
Sun Apr 16 2023 KristyPandaThis is a fun way to experience a detective story because the game does a good job of making you feel like the detective! I enjoyed it very much and the only issues I had were;
-Game runs well but cloud saves dont work so make sure you have ample time to play through an entire episode without stopping and disable cloud save to avoid annoying popup errors. Episodes run for about 30 to 40 minutes.
-Accessibility for deaf and HOH is very good, but a couple inconsequential videos did not have captions near the end of “Unmasked”
-Your choices dont matter for the most part, making this more of a visual novel instead of an actual game. There is one critical choice in each story that will lead to an alternate ending. The critical choice is fairly easy to spot since all the other choices are clearly minor variations of the same response whereas the critical one will have widely different responses.
-My detective acts unprofessional sometimes particularly during the interactions with the kids in the chat room in the first story which broke immersion for me a bit.
I do hope Scriptic will add more stories in the future!
Would be fun…but
Fri Feb 24 2023 Maddie🥰This is a great and unique concept for a game and so fun- if it was actually playable… the cloud save and local save pop up way too frequently for me to still lose a huge chunk of progress and have to restart the slow and agitating interviews and conversations… and why does clicking the cloud save restart the app and break the icons so they’re un-clickable and break messages? I also lost 2 entire interviews somehow, and I don’t even wanna play this game anymore because it’s so horribly buggy… it’s not even worth it to go back and restart, and why do my text message boxes just disappear entirely? Such a great unique concept for a game, but takes up so much storage for the little intervals of gameplay I have before a save message comes up, the app crashes, or breaks and won’t fix even if I force stop the app.. I even freed up storage thinking it was my phone, just to come write this review and find many other people have the same problem.
Great game - so many bugs!
Tue Apr 25 2023 LSanz4This game is amazing. I could and would play it for hours. However there are so many glitches and bugs! If you exit out of the app, you lose any progress you’ve made. There were several times I had to restart episodes after already finishing them. Also, there were several times the chat feature would freeze with no options to continue the story even though there were no clues left to find in the victims phone - so I was stuck waiting for the app to unfreeze so I could keep playing. This game is so intricate and I love it. I hope they fix these issues and add more episodes.
Pretty different and neat
Sun Jun 11 2023 DanJ210I’m going to continue playing it. It is a bit addicting and as an adult I don’t play many phone games but this has captured my interest. I like that some things will take real time just like real life. Keep in mind that if you silence your phone which is a constant for me these days, you’ll have no sound in the game. You have to un-mute to hear sounds. I haven’t used every feature yet but really cool concept. And neat how you can play from the music app in a persons phone in the game and have that as music, even shuffle. Just nest ideas so far. Only bug so far is periodically I get a cloud save error. One time it crashed the app when I made a choice.
You’ll Get Over the Bugs
Sun Dec 11 2022 brookez💟The other reviews say it themselves- this game has some bugs. Overall though, this is an amazing interactive crime investigation game. The stories are intriguing and have plot twists left and right. Each story can take you a day if you’re like me and binge it, or up to a few weeks of fun and investment. The only thing I’ll say it there’s not much variety in the outcome besides one decision towards the end, but throughout the story you’ll feel like you messed up the investigation while it’s just the story. Hoping for more stories soon!!
