Obscure

Keyword: A Spider's Thread

79% positive of 239 Steam reviews

Released: 2021
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by City From Naught Inc.. Published by City From Naught Inc., Gamirror Games, idealCat.

About the game

Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.

Tagged by players

Hacking
Detective
Immersive Sim
Cyberpunk
Crime
Logic
Thriller
Puzzle
Mystery
Story Rich
Investigation
Futuristic

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Keyword: A Spider's Thread

79% positive of 239 Steam reviews

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Released: 2021
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by City From Naught Inc.. Published by City From Naught Inc., Gamirror Games, idealCat.

About the game

Tagged by players

Hacking
Detective
Immersive Sim
Cyberpunk
Crime
Logic
Thriller
Puzzle
Mystery
Story Rich
Investigation
Futuristic

What players say

Recommended
Oh wow this is definitely a good detective game. It has an interesting way to solve and put together clues and leads. Generally games like this would have irritating and moonlogic methods of solving. This game avoids that successfully. Almost everything is logical and clear. You will sometimes think that "hmm I wonder if I can do this" while believing that it wouldn't work, but you will be shocked and surprised that…
7.5 h played when written. 50 found it helpful.
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Recommended
This is a pretty fun detective game that has an interesting premise and is pretty fun to go through. If you're very focused on dollar per hour of gameplay you might want to wait until there's a deeper discount, but I personally enjoyed my time in game. Basically it's a little puzzler where you go around going into other people's social media accounts to try to track down your missing daughter. There are a few…
2.1 h played when written. 9 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Half the positive ratings are "Product Received For Free" When someone described it like Songs From Farca, I was intrigued. A genuinely great game and I really enjoy/hacking detective games. There's some interesting ideas but overall it felt like the execution was a bit lacking. The engine feels 2010, and some of the threads are tenuous. (Spoilers ahead...) You have to buy binoculars so that you can look amongst a…
38 min played when written. 32 found it helpful.
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