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Desktop Detective

89% positive of 165 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Conradical Games. Published by Playsaurus.

About the game

An idle detective game that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.

Tagged by players

  • Desktop Companion
  • Idler
  • Detective
  • Auto Battler
  • 2.5D
  • Incremental
  • Investigation
  • Stylized
  • Mystery
  • RPG
  • Supernatural
  • Deckbuilding

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    I wanna like it but its really just not hitting any good incremental pacing. Progress is slow - which would be FINE - but it also requires near constant babysitting and menuing to actually have progress. Like it doesn't feel like a minimal idle game, its like "come back every 60 seconds and shift-buy more upgrades. Also the key way of making money is through progressing cases - which happens in big chunks once every…

    39 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    37.4 hours in and I’m still playing Desktop Detective… Still haven’t prestige to the next true Ascension yet! I honestly didn’t expect to sink this many hours into a game like this, but yet here we are…. every time I think “Alright, I’ll just play for a little bit,” I end up spending way longer than I planned. This game is a really good idler to run while watching videos, doing work or playing other games, very well…

    37 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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