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Spoiler about the game ahead, if you haven't play it and don't want to get spoiled about the plot don't read it

Gathered all the clues

So the brother was the only one without a witness, got it

Accuse the brother

"You have thrown an innocent man in jail"

What the shit?

The game is quite fun to play to be honest, the story is just engaging enough to keep you going. Although my first playthrough I got spoiled who is the real killer by the ending above.

The game has some bugs, like the "greatest murder mystery ever" dialogue will actually soft lock you from re-entering the first floor after you went up to the second floor, and on my second run I encountered a bug where if you press E too much times when walking up the stairs, you ended up being stuck in a loop of entering second floor over and over again. BGM got annoying after a while because of it being in such a short loop.

Gameplay wise, I'm also not a big fan of the game just teleport you back to the station (Police station? I think it was miz jam investigation house or something?) as soon as it deems you have enough clues to find the killer. That I think is like the most important player decision in a detective game being taken away. The rendering distance is also pretty weird at a lot of places, for example, walking behind the victim's house while directly colliding with it doesn't make it show up. The chase sequence in the end I think it's a nice touch, but I don't think its well done, cuz there's no build up for the tension or anything, the lack of music doesn't help either.

Plot-wise, like I said, I was actually tricked into thinking the brother was the killer because the mom actually has an alibi with her son. I know the real plot is that she didn't washed the dishes so they are dirty, because she went to kill her husband. But (1) lady, that's a dishwasher, couldn't you literally just press like 3 buttons before you walk out to kill your husband? (2) Lack of information on who actually discovered the body and when threw me off, since its quite possible that the body was found right after he was killed, which means that she stop doing the dishes since she found her husband's body, which make sense? (3) Does little Timmy not heard the fact that his mom fired a pistol right outside of the house? Were the snacks that good? 

Well overall I still think its pretty sweet for a short game, but there's definitely a lot of room for improvement.

SPOILER ALERT:

What actually happened is as follows:

The wife killed the husband elsewhere.

As shown by the trails of blood.

Dumped the gun.

And staged the body.

She actually told timmy to alibi her as timmy is a little boi and doesnt understand

And the brother was actually making coffee when lil timmy was sneaking around stealing stuff.As shown by interacting with coffee pot.

I also agree when you say I should have provided time of death.Totally overlooked that.

(1 edit)

(1) Trails of blood itself isn't enough of an evidence to make the first conclusion, since the trail ended right before the gun, its more possible than someone killed the victim there, walked away and dump the gun. Since if she carry the body there, the trail of blood should lead to inside the house after she set up the body and walk back into the house. (2) I actually like the unreliable alibi thing, but that means his witness statement was ignoble so its just her v his word in the end (3) Making coffee for an hour between 10-11pm?

I didnt want to make it too obvious so i made it so that blood trail ends after three blood drops and they are actually coming from outside the crime scene.He was not making coffee from 10-11 pm it was just that lil timmy was waiting for his uncle to leave so he could steal the stuff he went to make coffee just for 5 mins.Lil timmy never said he was gone for 1 hour.