Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View vs Gamedec
Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View
Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View is an investigative point-and-click-like adventure game where you play as a wheelchair-bound retired private investigator named Conway. A young girl named Charlotte May was kidnapped in the middle of the night in his neighborhood and he has decided to dust off his coat and dive into one last case. In this game, you'll need to talk to neighbors, observe their behavior, and conduct some sleuthing of your own, all in hopes of tracking down the missing girl before it’s too late!Besides having incredible voice acting and storytelling that completely immerse you into the story, the game also features a nice photography aspect, allowing you to photograph pieces of evidence as well as to spy on neighbors exhibiting suspicious behaviors, as well as an evidence board where you'll try to figure out what fits where just to reveal the bigger picture of the case. There are even vintage stamps that you can collect for fun too... if you can spot them that is!
All in all, Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View is a brilliant detective game where a keen eye and having great deduction skills can come in handy. Will you be able to rescue the girl from her captors before it's too late?
Gamedec
Gamedec is a story-driven CRPG in which you play as a game detective, or “gamedec” that's set in a cyberpunk world where people mostly prefer Virtualia (the virtual world) than the real one (a.k.a. Realium). Similar to a private investigator, your job, when hired, is often to solve problems in the many game worlds in Virtualia, most of which can also be linked to issues in Realium, with your unique set of gamedec tools. There are plenty of decisions to make, people to talk to and professions to pick up as you progress through the storyline, revealing one plot twist after another!I truly can’t sing enough praises for Gamedec. The storytelling, the setting, and the immersion here are nothing short of impressive and I just love that there are so many different ways you can go about doing things. The movement controls can be a bit wonky at times, but that doesn’t take away the fact that this game is as good as they come, and well, if you’re into achievements, you can have fun playing through the story again and again, trying out other dialogue choices and maybe even discovering new story branches that you might have missed in your previous run.