I am a huge fan of this game. I love the concept. I love the atmosphere. Solving cases is genuinely a great time and super engaging. I've been following this game for some time now and planned to follow it into the future. I thought to myself; "Man, in a couple years this game is going to go down as an all time great in my eyes."

And then the game left early access.

This game no where near done. I called it a concept for a reason. This game is little more than an idea. No meat. No potatoes. Just an idea. I would be surprised if this game was even 20% finished. It APPEARS deep but once you spend a few hours inside, its shockingly hollow. Every case, while procedural, follows strict archetypes. A corpo murder will always be committed by someone in the victim's office and they will always leave a calling card with their fingerprints on it. A stalker murder will always have a dating profile involved with the perp's description. Even the new cases have quirks. Snipers are super easy as all you have to do is go to the town's blackmarket dealer, look at the sales log (which the owner doesn't mind you doing) and see who bought a sniper rifle that day. Kidnapping cases are especially broken and frustrating because the spouse of the victim will hire you to find their partner but utterly refuse to cooperate with you or even let in the house.

That is assuming any of this ever works. It's more bug than game. I cannot tell you how many times I have had to restart a game because everyone's routine got deleted because I went to sleep. Or NPCs suddenly disappear from the game world but are still involved in quests. Sometimes people just don't go home or go to work. Sometimes businesses just stop functioning or refuse to open. The player starts with an apartment that you aren't told about but you can't live there. Sometimes the graffiti that tells you the password to underground businesses doesn't spawn properly meaning you will never be able to get in (making sniper cases an absolute pain.)

I am just so utterly disappointed. The first few hours of this game are pure magic. Truly nothing like it. Then the cracks appear. And now those cracks are permanent. There is nothing coming. This is it. All that potential dashed against the rocks.

Devs rushed to push out a 1.0 build with no new content while ignoring their community. Lots of potential, bad devs, would get a refund if I could.

Best detective game ever made! Simple as that.