CaseCracker
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($4.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($3.99)
- Last discount ended
- 8 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 610, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No flashy visuals, just pure mental gymnastics. Actively search, cross-reference, and unravel the truth from a complex database. In this hardcore text-based deduction game, the devil is always in the details. Detective, are you ready?
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in May 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Paper Bride ($3.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator ($12.99, scores 66).
3 of the 646 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 200 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.5 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
65% start to 19% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 22:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great indie investigative game from China about several murder mysteries in a small Chinese city (and some wacky extra things you can discover). The interface is a bit janky (particularly the note-taking) and some translations are off (tenses and genders as you'd expect from a language without them) but the creator's intentions come through. The cases are interesting, with most characters having hidden motivations...
If you love detective games, this is amazing. Sometimes really hard! I love those games where you have to take notes and review every sentence several times, abolutely great game, highly recommended. They also did a english re-translation in 2026, so if you read a old review complaining about the translation, that is fixed now, really shows the love the dev put into this game, optimizing it even 4 years after...
Never played such a terrible detective game. The gameplay is awful, the production feels incredibly cheap and unfinished, and the developer's self-satisfied attempts at planting "clever" little references are painfully unfunny. What I hate most is that the so-called deduction has no real logic behind it. Instead of reasoning from the evidence, you are forced to follow the developer's bizarre and completely arbitrary...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
CaseCracker scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1723260/casecrackerReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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