The second Detective Grimoire game is a definite improvement on the first. The animation and character design is consistently, the music is better and more varied, the central mystery is more interesting and layered and the puzzles are a little more fleshed out. All that said, I can't deny that Tangle Tower still feels as though it lacks a certain something. That certain something might just be difficulty.

This is (aside from the first Grimoire game) possibly the easiest point and click/detective game I've ever played. But then, I do think it is aimed at younger players, so it's hard to really criticise it on that basis. If you have a child and want to show them a fairly toothless and fun whodunnit, then you can't really go wrong with Tangle Tower, but if you're coming off the back of Obra Dinn and Sherlock Holmes, you might struggle to enjoy it as much. All that aside, it's a very pretty game and the voice performances are great and surprisingly lengthy. It's also pretty short, clocking in at four, maybe five hours, so if you want a breezy afternoon game, then this might be a good sale pickup for you.

Sole the mystery!





















I want him

Pretty fun mystery game with fantastic voice acting and beautiful art. The mystery itself has a good beginning when you interrogate all the new characters (because the voice acting is so good) and solve a few Layton-esque puzzles, a kinda rough middle where you kinda just mash the hint button because the game sort of lacks a way of directing you to the right rooms beyond that, and a good ending where you put all the pieces together and feel a bit smart because the game guides you to answers pretty well I feel.

I recommend it especially at a discount for a short mystery game.

oh my god I loved this game so much!
i’m a sucker for mystery games so naturally as soon as i saw this on the store i added it to my library!

the artstyle was definitely the first thing that caught my eyes, its very Double Fine-esque so no wonder I fell absolutely in love with it!

the animations are so well done & smooth as butter, it shows this Jonathan guy was the perfect guy to do it

some of the gameplay also reminded me of, probably my favorite mystery solving saga Ace Attorney, so i felt right at home with the mechanics. its like they grabbed the more interesting aspects such as the ability of presenting each item/ character to each character in the house & hearing their take in it- brings so much more realism & context to the game

the only critic i have is the console version, the UX can be totally improved, just by mapping some actions to the gamepad buttons instead of making the user navigate & interact with everything only using the pointer! i tapped the button B so many times trying to close menus lol

but besides that, i really loved this game for real. as soon as i finished it i was hoping there’d be at least a rumor of a sequel. so imagine the excitement when i found out about The mermaid’s tongue <3

Simpático, carismático y divertidísimo. Probablemente sea demasiado pequeño para su propio bien, pero el misterio es intrigante y los personajes encantadores. Ojalá hubiese pasado más tiempo con ellos, ojalá la trama se hubiese abierto para involucrarlos más directamente; pero Tangle Tower tiene un final terrible que, aunque aceptes el dudoso giro final, resulta insatisfactorio y deja algunos GIGANTES interrogantes.

A parte de ello, lo único que me ha molestado es como al mostrar pistas a sospechosos, los detectives actuarán siempre igual aún sabiendo qué señala esa pista o conociendo el secreto del sospechoso.

El cómo del asesinato me parece de lo más ingenioso y bien escrito, pero la identidad y las razones son tan débiles, y las preguntas sin contestar tan importantes, que sin una secuela Tangle Tower me dejará un sabor agridulce.

A short and charming little murder mystery game a la Professor Layton.

The characters are well written, acted, and full of personality. The game is a little too short however to show off an arc to most of them, or see any meaningful interaction, which I would have liked.

Puzzles are pretty easy for the most part, and the game gives you a lot of direction so you pretty much never get lost. The main gameplay is really just looking around in rooms and finding the right things to click, which I don't find awfully exciting.

Ultimately it's cute and I see why someone might love this, but the gameplay isn't engaging for me personally.

I randomly came across this game during a sale and the art style and animation were the thing that first jumped out at me.
I downloaded the demo first to see what I thought of it and less than 10 minutes and the sheer fact that this game has full voice acting and interactions for you clicking 90% of what you can see made me plunge into the full version instead.
I wasn't disappointed at all, I played it in one long whole day session.
First things first is that the story has a really good starting pitch, with it being a murder mystery with seemingly impossible circumstances and very quickly the exploration of the crime scene and the characters you meet shortly after that are just lovely, also really well voice acted, the casting of every character felt perfect with all of them adding to how the characters pull you further into the story, all the while the visuals, animations and music stay consistently phenomenal too, each character has different ways they'll address you, from stuff like how a grandiose character who likes to inflate his background changing his entire background to a star filled space scene until getting rudely cut off and that makes the background change back as if he'd been brought down to earth, to another character offering her opinion about the other family's members via poems that cut off the music and make the background black while she recites them.
The main mystery solving and puzzles also have a good amount of variety while never feeling like you forgot something along the way or get overwhelmed, but the main appeal is I think being able to keep track of who has and hasn't been lying, with the main twists staying refreshing and pretty hard to guess all the way through, genuinely phenomenal gem of a game that put the devs into my radar.