
Ace Detective
A downloadable game
Play as Ace Deckard, a grizzled noir inspired detective as you alone attempt to clean up the city he calls home. Play your cards right or suffocate under a never ending dark cloud of crime.
Navigate the world of Crime City to gather your strength and assist wacky townsfolks. Battle it out with criminals each with their own gimmicks and cheap tricks. Victory isn't the end however, brood around your office after each run and put together the bigger picture of what's going on in this crazy town... and maybe have some like-minded vigilantes join you along the way.
Runs are designed to take around 15-30 minutes.
Feautures:
- Top-down exploration sections with procedural town layouts and events
- Turn-based combat against criminals with your deck of cards
- 2 ways to win, Knock 'em out with combat or use precise Sleuth Cards
- Over 100 unique cards to find, unlock and build out your deck with
- 6 potential bosses and a hidden super boss currently available
- Scaling difficulty and complexity as you complete runs
- Your detective agency offices act as a HUB for meta upgrades and progression
- Unlockable characters with unique cards and skills (3 total currently available)
- A cat centric mini-game to cool down between runs and gain usable bonuses!
Download the game below.
Recent Patch Notes:
- Longer lairs
- Actions ticker added to Card battles
- More hidden areas
- New unlockable cards during gameplay
- Many various bug fixes and sounds
This version is in alpha , however it is a fully playable experience. Everything including art and sounds are temporary and subject to change. Many of the sounds and music are placeholders sourced free.
Thankyou so much for your playtime and feedback!
Updated | 12 days ago |
Status | In development |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
Author | Toccuma |
Genre | Card Game |
Made with | GameMaker |
Tags | 2D, Cats, Deck Building, GameMaker, Noir, Pixel Art, Procedural Generation, Roguelike, Roguelite, Singleplayer |
Average session | About an hour |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
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Install instructions
This is a runtime executable file. Windows doesn't particularly like this file type and will usually give you a prompt, to play click 'Run anyway.'
Development log
- Performance Issue ResolvedMay 06, 2022
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