Home Detective

Puzzle
3.6
56 ratings 29 reviews
release date
2023
May 10
game modes
• Singleplayer
player modes
• Standing • Sitting • Roomscale
compatibility
• Quest 1 • Quest 2/Pro • Quest 3/3S
storage 1.0 GB
Store Page
$7.99 ended May 14
$9.99

Use your own living room to solve the crime! Using passthrough, the crime scene is overlaid onto your play area, leaving you free to explore and find clues. Use the patent-pending Residual Heat Scanner to detect the criminals' recent movements, and then dust for fingerprints or try to find evidence left behind. With your wits, and your trusty sidekick Steve Dobbins' snarky comments, you're sure to get to the bottom of these confusing crimes.

Mixed reality
comfort Not rated
age rating13+ Teen
websitedavidaddis.com
developerDavid Addis
publisherDavid Addis
connectionInternet not required
app version1.1.7f
languagesEnglish ∙ Chinese ∙ French ∙ German ∙ Italian ∙ Japanese ∙ Spanish ∙ Ukrainian

Reviews 29

John15 days ago

excited to try this game, but can't

no matter what I do, and I've redrawn my boundary several times I have plenty of space, I can't seem to get it to accept it. it keeps telling me it wants the 3M by 2M boundary and to redraw it. please help.

GSpoon21 days ago

I really like this game

But more importantly and the response to my concerns were immediate. So it’s actually a 4 because of the hiccups I had, but you may not have, and the extra star is for the incredible customer service.

Mike Fowler4 months ago
8

Six fun mysteries

A great collection of 6 mysteries that require you to piece together what happened. It's fun interacting with the environment as you turn things over trying to find all the clues to help you work out what happens. It requires you to think beyond what you see in order to actually solve each case.

Jasmine6 months ago
8

Eh

It's fun. But you only get one free case, and the case isn't that long. The rest you have to pay for. It's not a lot but, still, bummer.

6 months ago

Hi, the app has just been converted to a one-time purchase, with no IAPs. If you downloaded it before, you now have access to all the content. Enjoy!

Oli6 months ago
6

Can't make it work...

I attempted to download it. But can't play.

I am left the dark (spacial is activated but still, i am in a black void)
The only thing I see is a console with a login screen and 2 tools.

It does nothing else.
I deleted and reinstalled the app 3 times and it still does not work on my 3s...
I was looking to solve a mystery... but the mystery of the non working app was not what I was looking for...

6 months ago

Hello! Thanks for trying the game, and thank you for bringing this to my attention.

I've speculatively fixed a bug that could cause this behaviour if the game couldn't determine the play area size to use.

If you have the time, could you download version 1.1.7b please, and try again? If it behaves any differently, please edit your review or shoot any more details along to gamedev@davidaddis.com. Cheers!

Logan Peter Jones8 months ago
10

Doesn’t utilize spatial scan

The game does not use your spatial information from your room set up. What this means is that characters standing behind a chair or table make the furniture appear “see-through” rather than being occluded behind it. Also, for me all of the game items appeared in the middle of my kitchen counter, making it impossible to grab items or interact with the game elements. I don’t know if this was some sort of glitch, or if the camera is not designed to map onto real room layout like other MR games do.

6 months ago

Hi, thanks for trying out the game! I've just fixed the glitch that would have made parts of the crime scene appear out of your play area. If you get a chance to download the update (v1.1.7a) and try again, it should work much better now - so thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Some kind of context-sensitive detection of furniture, and tailoring the crime scene to match it would have been very cool, but these features didn't exist when I started development and would be very complex to adapt into the game now. Definitely something I'll consider in future projects or a sequel, though.

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