A Case of Distrust on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.

A Case of Distrust is a adventure, indie and detective game developed and published by An Open Ben.
Released on February 08th 2018 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 572 reviews of which 468 were positive and 104 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount, but you can find it for 1.86€ on Instant Gaming.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
  • Storage: 1500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: N/A
MacOS
  • OS: El Capitan
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
  • Storage: 1500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: N/A

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March 2025
Nice detective game, particularly recommended to noir lovers. The art style is beautiful, although not always functional (in this kind of game, you'll have to go back and forth between locations, and some transitions after a while become annoying). The story and the characters are very well written, but when things seem to spice up, the game ends, so the overall feeling is of a prequel to deeper, longer game. Anyway, I paid for the game just a few euros and I think that for 3,5 hours of playing time it is truly a fair price. I particularly enjoyed the deepening notions on the roaring twenties you can optionally get talking to cab drivers.
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Nov. 2024
A perfect example of how good a minimalist video game can be. Nice artwork, and a nice twist at the end.
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July 2024
A relatively quick detective game with enjoyable background music, good art style, and fun gameplay. My favorite parts were the taxi rides between each location which gave you the opportunity to have conversations with the driver. Overall, I recommend this game if you enjoy puzzle solving and just want to relax :)
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July 2024
Enjoyed this very much. The mystery is a little straightforward (again, ignore the playtime because I left this running) but the art direction is stylish and the soundtrack is strong. I would say that you can probably get through this in 2.5 - 3 hours. I also really loved the flavour that the conversations with the taxi drivers gave. I would love to see a sequel with more to it, but this was a perfect snack-sized noir detective game!
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April 2024
A Case of Distrust is an adventure game where you play as a private investigator and solve a case. A 20's ambiant with some nice graphics... I recommend it.
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A Case of Distrust
7.7
468
104
Online players
2
Developer
An Open Ben
Publisher
An Open Ben
Release 08 Feb 2018
Platforms
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