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A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is a adventure, conspiracy and detective game
developed by BRANE and Lorenzo Boni
and published by Surefire.Games.
Released on January 12th 2026 is available on Windows, MacOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 7 languages: English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
It has received 740 reviews of which 555 were positive and 185 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 6.98€ on Steam with a 35% discount.
The Steam community has classified Confidential Killings - A Detective Game into these genres:
Adventure
Conspiracy
Detective
Investigation
Puzzle
Mystery
Point & Click
Interactive Fiction
2D
Logic
Choose Your Own Adventure
Noir
Text-Based
Hidden Object
Story Rich
Hand-drawn
First-Person
Dialogue Heavy
Atmospheric
Stylized
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3 (2nd Gen or newer) or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4096 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS 10.14 Mojave or later
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or Apple M1
- Memory: 4096 MB RAM
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A good detective game in the vein of the Golden Idol games or Return of the Obra Dinn, though I would say the cases in this game are much easier. I enjoyed the setting, artwork and overarching story. I'd like to see some additional difficulty in future games but this was fun and interesting for a few hours.
This was pretty damn good. A "Golden Idol"-like (Seriously, I have played a lot of those recently...) in the form of a stylyish crime thriller set in late 70:s Hollywood. You probably know what to expect in the gameplay in this genre, it's the usual hunt for keywords in a static scene and then figure out what happened by filling in the blanks in a sheet. All cases tell a continuous and very satisfying story with a few twists and turns. The art, in the style of a 80:s crime comic is excellent and the soundtrack was great. Only issue is that it's very easy compared to other games in the genre, probably one of the easiest I played so far. The main reason is that when you enter the names of the characters, the game doesn't require you to fill out several at a time like in many other games. It locks down your answer as soon as you get the name of one character correct. Same goes when you assign that name to a specific role in some cases. Even if you avoid brute forcing the answers, this still makes it far to easy, since you don't need to have the full picture, instead you can focus on one individual at a time. Especially the puzzle in last case that could have been a bit tricky since it seams that the game want you to read and cross reference several documents to figure out the full conspiracy and what part each character had, is made a breeze because of this. The Case Summary is also for the most part fairly straight forward. Presentation and story is one of the best in the genre, just don't expect to be challenged by something on the level of Golden Idol.
I would describe this as Golden Idol lite, the same kinda format but not as deep or challenging. Still I enjoyed this game a lot and I love the art style and the story was engaging enough to keep me entertained. If you enjoy these kinds of investigation games and have a couple of hours to kill I would definately recommend this one.
A fairly clumsy, dry entry into the Idol-like genre that forgets the lessons of its forebears. This is a really perfunctory Idol-like. It's a bunch of hollow feeling scenes than the players click their way through. There doesn't seem to have been as much attention paid to the scenarios as there was in the Golden idol series, as nothing feels particular interesting, chin-stroking, or revealing. It's just a bunch of stuff you look at and then fill out the paperwork for. I guess it's very realistic and true to a real detective in that sense? :) I think the biggest issue with the game design, however, is that it's an Idol-like that forgot to clone the important parts of the Idol-like genre! Specifically: 1. It forgets any kind of delayed reveal mechanic on the persona sub-screen, meaning you can just brute force all of the faces without caring who anyone is. Sure, most players won't do that, but designers need to protect players from ruining their own experiences and optimising the fun out of a game. 2. It doesn't have enough sub-mysteries to help the player step their way through each scenario. I guess this is because each scenario is really obvious, once you've gone around looking at everything. Some of the leaps of logic in the scene aren't entirely logical either, and sub-mysteries might have helped round that out. 3. The interstitial / sub-mysteries that do exist don't actually help, as the way the UI is structured they're all hidden away, rather than being separate windows like in Idol games, so you can't view them all at once, resulting in too much tedious tab switching. 3. The eye icon ticks hotspots off that you've visited, but doesn't track if you collected all the clue words or visited the sub-hotspots. Meaning if you get interrupted you might not realise you missed something. Also, reloading into a scenario refreshes all of the eyeballs, but you still have all of the clues, which is confusing. 4. Clues are often clearly visible in in-game text, but not "collectable". You always have to find the exact scene to find someone's name, despite it being visible everywhere else. I imagine this is to encourage you to explore, but that seems a lazy solution and isn't one taken by the other pillars of the genre. (Also, you have to renter people's names each scenario, despite having seen them in the past 5) 5. You rarely have to input motive, which means it's not clarified / understood by the player. You're mostly just inputting the chronology of the crime scene. 6. It explains itself a bit too much. There's no real air of mystery, just some crimes that happened. You don't need to copy everything in the tentpole games, but as the idiom in the jazz community goes, first you need to learn the rules so that you can break them. There's a reason why these features are in the other games! Pope didn't invent the triple-reveal for his fun, it was for the players :) Concluding, I'd like to say that it's a pleasant enough experience, even if it does fall short of the mark. Hopefully the developers make more games in the genre and improve on what they've got already. Fans of the Dinn-like family of genres should find enough here to chew on whilst they await their next morsel, but it might not be the best introduction for those new to the genre, look to the Golden Idol series or The Roottrees Are Dead. Miscellany: 1. I like the font. 2. Early on the English and writing was a bit dodgy, but it seemed to get better over time. Or perhaps I just grew more used to it? 3. It has quite poor soundwork, especially the sound mixing, with some hotspots being tediously loud 4. There's no keyboard shortcuts, so you have to use the mouse to interact with the journal every time. It's just a bit too much friction and makes you wonder how the developers play these kinds of games. 5. I liked the more "progressive" elements, i.e. turning on a light first, or finding a safe code, the interviews, the case filing cabinet etc. They added a touch of novelty to the genre. It's a shame they didn't focus on the fundamentals first! 6. Something baffling happens in terms of arrests. It's "explained" later in the story, but the fact it happens at all yet isn't told to the player is weird. I thought we were jumping around the timeline at first. 7. I like the graphics and even the scenario settings. It definitely felt like I imagine the LA billionaire social scene to be. 8. The game INNOVATED with drop downs, but they were too full and therefore unwieldy. I would like them to trim after other words get locked in. The Idol-like word tableau is there, but it's tedious hidden. 9. This game is unique amongst the Idol-likes in that you're an actual person, rather than a godlike being of deduction. And unlike Obra Dinn, almost everyone here is still alive. But you can't interview the suspects in the scene, you just go around frisking them and trying to discern their identities from scraps of paper.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is currently priced at 6.98€ on Steam.
Yes, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is currently available at a 35% discount. You can purchase it for 6.98€ on Steam.
Yes, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game received 555 positive votes out of a total of 740 achieving a rating of 7.16.
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Confidential Killings - A Detective Game was developed by BRANE and Lorenzo Boni and published by Surefire.Games.
Yes, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game does not support VR.
Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is a single-player game.
No, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
8
Developer
BRANE,
Lorenzo Boni
Publisher
Surefire.Games
Release
12 Jan 2026
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