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In the game of Detective Face, detectives face-off detecting faces to detect which detective is best! This refined contest of logic and deduction is intended for two players, and is played by passing a Playdate between them in turn.

The game creates a random gallery of suspects, and then assigns each player their spy. Players then take turns asking each other questions about their opponent's spy's appearance, names, and likes. The first player to unmask their opponent's spy wins! Play it straight by just describing what you see, or BYOS (Bring Your Own Silly) and go for laughs by looking for the funniest useful description! "Does your spy look like a goth bassist?"

Detective Face features fun zany illustrations, a fast talking narrator, an optional turn timer to turn up the pressure, and a delightful crank based interface. Our difficulty option lets you dial the game from rapid-fire short match, to epic mind-melter. Hours of fun for all the family!

This game does not deeply enforce rules, so play it your way! Some fun house rules you can explore:

  • Try playing a game where you're only allowed to mention each part of the face once!
  • Try playing without being allowed to say any of the words in the hashtags!
  • Try playing in teams, two heads deduce better than one!

New to purchasing Playdate games on itch? Loading a game onto your Playdate is as easy as dragging and dropping it onto the Playdate website. For detailed information, see the Sideloading article over at Panic! 

Detective Face is now also available on the Playdate Catalog. Both versions will always be updated to the latest revision, please feel free to purchase it where you prefer!

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Updated 3 days ago
StatusReleased
Authorsubpixel
GenrePuzzle
Made withPlaydate
TagsDetective, Family Friendly, Local multiplayer, Pixel Art, Playdate, Two Player
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count2

Purchase

Buy Now$8.00 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $8 USD. You will get access to the following files:

DetectiveFace.pdx.zip 3 MB

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Is there a 1-player mode vs computer?

There is not, unfortunately. Would you like one? I’m afraid half the fun is in verbalizing the feature you’d like to guess about, I don’t think the Playdate has enough processing power to analyze speech :)

I can sort of imagine a spy guessing game that was one player, but it would have to be substantially different. Maybe that’s inspiration for another game!

Hi, thanks for your prompt reply. I get paranoid that people would scratch or damage my playdate, that happened with my GameBoy and DS. People are too rough with what is not theirs.


I love the idea though, I just don’t trust anyone to hold my precious playdate.


I would like a single player detective game. In the future though.

Is that enwebbed above your game card??

Lol, it is! Well spotted :)

Oh nice....would like to try it out.Is the demo out yet or the full game??

No, it’ll still be a while I’m afraid. Please look forward to another short game to pop out before that one!

Okay...cool.Thanks!!!