On my journey of playing horror walking simulator games, I made a purchase quite by mistake, it wasn’t a walking horror simulator at all. That game was Case #1472. When looking for something to play I saw it and thought to myself, this looks really interesting, an investigative game where you can type in questions for the AI (or whatever this game calls the interface) I was quite intrigued, especially because the game was only 99 cents. I mean who doesn’t have a spare 99 cent laying around. Probably even less if you happen to catch it during a steam sale.

Anyway I downloaded the game and proceeded to check it out, and I have to say I was blown away. The whole concept is sort of amazing, while I can’t say I remember any other games similar to this one (I know they probably exist, and I’m going to search for them) I spent well over 2 hours playing the game normally, trying my hand at figuring out which questions to ask to expand the story and unlock the achievements without using a guide (which I must say I think I did mostly masterfully)

The Story – You play as Simon, an investigator sent to interview Mrs. Emma Hollis about some recent events. You’re given little to no information and you’re tasked with trying to unravel the mystery of who Emma is, what she knows, what happened, and who the principal players in these events are. Will you be able to uncover the truth about what happened, are you able to figure out the mysteries and secrets Mrs. Hollis has.

Gameplay – While the game doesn’t really have much for you to do, outside of type in questions. Yes that’s right, sentences you actually type using your keyboard. It’s important to remember that phrasing and spelling are pretty important most of the time.

Pros
Really awesome concept
Tremendous fun trying to find the next question
Creepy background noise and sounds
Very Cheap
Fairly easy 100% (although profile limited at the time of this review)

Cons
Sometimes the AI will spit out information that had nothing to do with the question
Slightly wonky dialog at times
The enter and exit 100 times achievement ugh.
Kind of redundant with no replay-ability

Recommendation
For the price of 99 cent, this game exceeded my expectations, I can’t stress enough how entertained I was while pacing through various questions to ask and waiting on the answer. Find a new character, and ask away, figure out some new information and try to find the right question to expand on that information. Maybe it’s because I’m completely in love with real life crime drama’s and shows on the information discovery channel, but this game just scratched an itch I didn’t know existed. I think I found a new favorite genre of game. Anyway, I’d fully recommend buying this game if for nothing more then asking the game some really weird questions and hearing the responses. Well, most of the response will be like, ask me that later, or I’m not google, but still. Give it a try anyway, what do you really have to lose 99 cents.