Detective of the Dead is an adventure game with cozy cooking set in the colorful Mexican afterworld. As a dead detective you prepare tacos to make suspects talk. With these clues you investigate further and solve puzzles trying to find your killer and save your loved ones.
Save the Día de los Muertos. But your decisions lead to several endings in a gripping story about life and death.
Always on your side and ready to help - your magic dog Xolo.
Find out which special taco recipes makes your customers spill the beans. Then collect or buy ingredients. Your grandma Lupita knows many things about Mexican food and tacos as well as the afterworld Mictlan.
Time is running out. Your need to prevent that your killer can go to the world of the living on the Day of the Dead.
Work and manage the cozy Taco Stand by day, then solve supernatural mysteries at night!
Whip up traditional, delicious recipes for your customers… some might be suspects! A great taco leads to clues. You need those clues to progress in your case. And your customers pay for a good taco. Use their Calavera coins for buying things, bribing and more of those things a detective does.
Pursue the clues gathered by day to uncover the real story by night. You’ll switch back and forth between Alejandro and trusty pup Xolo, each one of you has special abilities, that help exploring the colorful underworld, solving puzzles, tracking suspects, finding missing items and more, all to stop the plot to ruin Día de los Muertos, save your family and stop the killer's gang!
Single Player (a local Co-op mode is planned)
Semi-open 3D world handcrafted full of life (well, dead NPCs)
15 hand-drawn key NPCs for the key case and more for the Sidequests - all with their unique story.
Top-Down perspective
2 core game-loops: cozy cooking + detective investigating with dialogues and puzzles
ca. 7-10 hours of gameplay with a main quest and lots of side quests.
In-game hint system
Official Currency: Calavera coins
Different endings based on your decisions in the game
Unique soundtrack for each of the levels and scene specific
Depending on the location and event, different music themes and pieces of music will support the plot, tension and atmosphere of the game. Music genres that represent both currently popular and timeless regional Mexican music styles as well as old indigenous music repertoires are taken up and reinterpreted.
Authentic Mexican mini-games incl. Piñatas shooting, Lotería (a bit of bingo), Papel picado & more.
Become part of the game with UGC skins and music
Release for PC / Steam / Steamdeck (planned also is Nintendo Switch, Playstation and Xbox)
Voice Over in English (German, Spanish& others planned)
Translation into English, German, Spanish (more planned)
Besides cooking you will play other minigames like Piñatas shooting to progress in the game.
Things in the afterworld are a bit different than in the world of the living. And it's not just these ancient god's powers, that are part of the game.
As you might know from Coco, the film, on the Day of the Dead every dead can travel to the world of the living. But what if someone wants to end this, so no one will travel to the living anymore? That would be a disaster for both worlds. The Dead clearly have a problem. And you are their best chance to solve it.
Depending on your decisions the ending will be different. We hope you can solve the BIG CASE and make sure the dead can go to the world of the living on the Día de los Muertos. And you too, so that you can prevent the killing of your loved ones and capture the killer's gang-boss.
A bit of background: Alejandro is deeply missed in the world of the living. We understand this feeling, and through the game, we provide a space for all players to honor their loved ones. Please get in touch with us, for example, on Discord, to find out more.
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