File too many false reports, and the game is over. If you don't think they've done anything illegal, you can shred the report and move on to the next one. If you think they're guilty, you attach their ID and drag whatever bits of evidence you think proves their guilt onto the report and send it to the authorities. You can even retrieve receipts from stores where they recently made purchases.įrom there, it's up to you to determine if they've committed a crime. You can crawl their social media account, look through their text messages, search history, and photos. You can search the DMV for their ID based on their description, and if you have their name you can hack their phone with a (typically pretty easy) minigame. Quite unethically, you investigate by taking the details from the report and digging into the suspect's life. You know how the Nextdoor app works, right? Where people are always freaking out because they saw someone acting 'suspiciously' in your neighborhood? The reports in Scrutinized are a lot like that-sometimes you wonder what they're even worried about, but other times it does seem like something criminal might be going on.

The detective work begins with a suspicious person report, filed by someone in your neighborhood. 'Their pictures are A.I generated, and any images found in the game are fabricated or stock images.' 'Please note that the people in this game are 100% creations of fiction,' says the Steam Store page (opens in new tab). There are pictures-fake ones, the developer assures us-of abused and battered women that some might find genuinely upsetting. After that big scare, that's how I'm playing.Ī warning before I explain the detective stuff: A few of the investigations I've done in Scrutinized revolve around domestic abuse, abduction, forced imprisonment, and animal abuse. It'll just be game over, no sudden jolt of fear.Īnd Scrutinized even goes a step further-in detective mode, you don't need to worry about anything but your desktop. He won't leap from your closet or grab you from behind while you're at your desk. But if he does kill you, the screen will just fade to black. First, you can turn off jump scares in the options menu-the killer will still be trying to get in and you'll need to prevent that by checking around your house whenever you hear a noise. Thing is, Scrutinized doesn't need to be played as a horror game.

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