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Card Detective

Card Detective

Players will take on the role of newspaper reporter Hazel Gong, who was originally covering a practice exercise at an abandoned building site, but stumbles upon a mysterious corpse in an accidental collapse!

Released Dec 14, 2023 Developer 神探饭店制作组 Platforms Windows · Mac Card BattlerPuzzleRPGEducationCard Game
View on Steam ↗ $3.99 (US · as of 2026-05-16)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

77.8%positive189 reviews
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“An interesting detective game with a deckbuilding twist where you use cards to break through to others and find the truth. The game takes a few hours to finish and a bit longer to complete all the side stories and get all achievements. The gameplay mechanic was pretty…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“My Experience I'm always interested when developers combine deckbuilding with a new theme I haven't seen before. In 2021, developers Klabater & Juggler Games combined deckbuilding with managing a traveling circus troupe to create The Amazing American Circus, which I found to be…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Not recommended · 5 found this helpful

“I tried really hard to justify giving this game a positive review, because I want to encourage indie devs to make more games. Unfortunately, in this case, it seems like this game is gonna be a case study in the importance of polish and proper translation. So for the new folks…”

— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

20achievements
27.0%median completion
4.7%rarest: Swift Response
90.8% of players 89.0% of players 88.3% of players 72.4% of players 58.7% of players 43.0% of players 41.6% of players 38.5% of players 35.7% of players 28.3% of players 27.0% of players 25.9% of players 22.1% of players 21.0% of players 20.6% of players 13.5% of players 8.2% of players 8.1% of players 5.4% of players 4.7% of players 90.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
90.8%First Questioning — Use a strategy to question a deception once.
89.0%Testing the Waters — Complete your first questioning round with the detective.
88.3%Getting a Glimpse — Unlock the Questioning Index feature.
Rarest badges of honor
4.7%Swift Response — Play "Follow-up", "Guarantee", and "Elicit a Response" in one questioning round.
5.4%Done at a Stroke — Play "Reject Negation", "In the Know", and "Thoughts" in one analyze round.
8.1%Hanging by a Thread — Defeat the "President" within 7 turns.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Apr 24, 2024
Eastern Game Fest is about to begin!

Eastern Game Fest Date: April 26 to May 4 As participants, we are incredibly honored to share our game creations with players around the world! We look forward to your participation in this gaming ext

Feb 04, 2024
The Steam Lunar New Year Sale is about to begin.

Steam Lunar New Year Sale Duration: February 7th to February 16th Card Detective10% off

Feb 01, 2024
The promotional event for 'Card Detective' on the 3DM Store has commenced

"The New Year Mega Promotion for 'Card Detective' is now live! Event Duration: January 31st - February 15th Enjoy a 10% discount on 'Card Detective'." 商城链接：https://www.3dmgame.hk/game/2461.html

Dec 28, 2023
Update Log

Bug Fixes: ①Older save files stuck at a certain level can now return to the current main storyline scene via -> -> . ②Fixed a bug where using the "Information Question" and then selecting "Credibility

Dec 26, 2023
Bundled Package Extension Announcement

🌟 Good news alert! The bundled package discount offer for "Card Detective" and "The untold story of hengshui school" was initially set to end on December 25th but will now be extended until January 5t

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresIndie, RPG, Strategy
Player tagsCard Battler · Puzzle · RPG · Education · Card Game · Comic Book · Strategy · Story Rich · Deckbuilding · Colorful · Drama · Psychological (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesSimplified Chinese * , English *
Achievements20
Official sitehttps://space.bilibili.com/511537820?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows7 32-bit equivalent or better Processor: Intel® i3-3220, AMD FX 6300 equivalent or better Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000 Storage: 4 GB available space