Terrible Game Idea: It's a detective mystery game except you must fake all the evidence because it's actually you who is guilty of all the crimes you're "investigating".
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Overboard! on Steam has this as a premise. Although I think some of the "fake all the evidence" can take the form of killing the people collecting the evidence.
It's interesting, killing people to hide your crime is indeed creating evidence, and it's real evidence, but I guess you portray it in such a way that hides your own guilt.
I like this idea. I had a similar idea where it was Sherlock Holmes who gets so tired of solving every crime that his mind fractures and he starts committing crimes that he is then called on to solve. Could he figure out it was him or would he best himself and lose his mind entirely?
I was gonna comment something similar. Those first few minutes of needing to flee the scene are a high in gaming I haven’t really seen again. Rest of the game doesn’t ever quite hit that same height though but it’s a beautiful idea that deserves another shot
Yup it was. If I remember correctly the latter part of the game suffered from running over budget or out of time and so it felt rushed but I also recall there being some amazing big swings in it that I really had fun with
that's similar to the opening of the older game Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit, game opens with your character having killed someone in a diner's bathroom you have a few minutes to hide evidence/escape as best you can, only for the next sequence to be you in control of detectives investigating the crime
There s a game where you play as a widow fabricating evidence so you get away with killing your husband. I cant for the life of me find the name though
This is my headcanon for Murder She Wrote. It's just statistically impossible that a murder would happen every time Jessica Fletcher travels, unless SHE'S the one committing them!!
If she did all of them, she is the most competent murderer on the planet since some were committed without her not even present on the same continent at that particular point in time. 🤭 Now THAT'S dedication.
She has a global shadow organization of cells who are all absolutely loyal to the point of forfeiting their own lives, because they fear her and her ever growing reach and power so much.
You know how, a lot of the time, when the criminals do a confession monologue at the end, it sounds formulaic and unrealistic? Jessica Fletcher knows where their families live
No, she got her future self from an alternate timeline to be in the main timeline, so that they could both frame someone else for the crime while making off with the spoils.
The "Trials And Tribulations" quest from Dragon's Dogma in a nutshell. You're tasked with gathering evidence for the trial of a corrupt merchant, and an honest collection will lead to their conviction... but they sell the best stuff in the game, so you MIGHT have a motivation to change that...
I've been wracking my brain trying to think of what that games title would be, but the rain is falling so heavy outside I'm struggling to hear myself think.
There's a board game based on the movie Rear Window where the players work together to interpret the clues from the leader player to solve the mystery, but sometimes the leader is trying to trick them into getting it wrong, and the players don't know when the leader is on their side or not.
“The crime is in the cover-up”. Just a bunch of ridiculous situations where you royally fucked up and you’re trying to cover your tracks and mislead investigators.
Shamelessly gonna mention the Ace Attorney games here for everyone who enjoys this idea. There isn't a case exactly like this, but there are quite a few where you're the one on trial/have to present fake evidence/have to investigate and defend the guilty party.
Sounds like a Cheapass Game. Surprised they didn’t do something like this. Sort of like a mashup of Kill Dr. Lucky with Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition
Dialog options:
• Can you just hold this for me? [hold out bloody knife handle]
• How much did you hate that guy, huh? [equip audio recorder]
• Could you spit into this for me? [hold out hanky]
Better idea: Detecting puzzle solving game except the puzzle is figuring out how to plant evidence convincingly in order to frame people because you suck at being a detective.
This was almost the first half of indigo prophecy until the game decided nothing matter and turned into a dumbass story about Aztecs and aliens or something.
The strong bad dangeresque roomisode game was like this, although you weren't guilty of the crime. You just have to create fake evidence in your office out of whatever is lying around to solve a case.
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This is how they cover up the crimes committed by the same police dept.
Also, if they realize you know what’s going on, you’ll be their next victim.
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Heavy Rain kind of?
I love twisty narratives 😅
Something really close to this is actually in the works right now
I could see this actually working though. I mean - technically…
SPOILER BELOW FOR Heavy Rain-
That was what Scott Shelby was doing in Heavy Rain to an extent… but I like it. No so terrible after all
• Can you just hold this for me? [hold out bloody knife handle]
• How much did you hate that guy, huh? [equip audio recorder]
• Could you spit into this for me? [hold out hanky]
Overboard: I haven't played this one yet but my friend gave it a big thumbs up. https://www.inklestudios.com/overboard/
This is a text based game you can play in your browser and its neat! https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Fzcode%2FMakeItGood.z8
It's good eats.