The third entry in the Detective Grimoire series, The Mermaid's Tongue, is coming in 2024, and there's already a playable demo!
I'll admit, I have a bit of a soft spot for the Detective Grimoire games. The first game wasn't much to write home about yet, but the second, Tangle Tower, was a delightful and criminally underrated mix of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Layton.
In it, you get to point-and-click your way through a mystery mansion, solve puzzles to uncover its secrets, compare witness statements and finger one of its quirky inhabitants as the true culprit behind a seemingly impossible murder.
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It was a bit of a hidden gem at the time, so I'd kind of given up on ever seeing another entry in the series, but I'm happy to be proven wrong! A teaser trailer for the next game in the series, The Mermaid's Tongue, was revealed during the Day of the Devs event on December 6:
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A Subaquatic Stabbing Case
Moving on from spooky swamps and tangled towers, detective duo Grimoire and Sally's next case has them investigate a locked-room murder mystery in the depths of a massive and massively strange submarine. Both the corpse and the client are nowhere to be found, and the supposed scene of the crime gives them more questions than answers!
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If you'd like to take a look around the crime scene yourself, there's already a demo of the game available on Steam! And don't worry if you've never played either of the previous games before: Tangle Tower worked as a completely standalone experience, and this new game seems to be no different. There's a reason Detective Grimoire's name isn't in the title anymore, after all.
The demo shows that The Mermaid's Tongue has a similarly excellent art direction, voiceover and soundtrack as Tangle Tower, so I already have high hopes for this game! That said, "2024" is a pretty broad time frame. For now, we'll just have to patiently wait for new information.
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