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Criminal Case: Grimsborough is the original season and setting of Pretty Simple’s hidden-object crime-investigation game Criminal Case. Players join the police in the fictional city of Grimsborough, inspect crime scenes, find listed objects, collect evidence, and investigate murder cases. First rele...
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Massively popular Facebook hidden object crime game, influential despite repetitive free to play structure.
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Criminal Case: Pacific Bay is the second season of Pretty Simple's Criminal Case series, a casual detective game built around hidden-object searches and crime investigations. Released in 2014, it moves the investigation to the Pacific Bay setting, where players examine scenes, collect clues, and wor...
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Successful follow up with large audience, but formula and monetization fatigue reduce consensus.
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Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past is the fourth season of Pretty Simple's Criminal Case hidden-object and investigation game series, launched in 2016. It moves the formula into a late-nineteenth-century historical setting, where players examine scenes, locate clues, and use evidence to advance mu...
Criminal Case: Save the World is a hidden-object adventure game developed by Pretty Simple and presented as the third Criminal Case season. Released in 2015, it extends the series' police investigation format beyond a single local setting: players examine crime scenes, collect and analyze clues, que...
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Later season, serviceable for fans but lower freshness and acclaim.
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Criminal Case: The Conspiracy is a 2018 hidden-object detective game developed by Pretty Simple. It is the fifth season of the Criminal Case series, presenting investigations through crime-scene searches, clue collection, interrogations, and puzzle-based case progression. The game is intended for pl...
