Paradise Killer

Paradise Killer's non-linear focus, cast of intriguing characters, deep investigation mechanics, and vaporwave presentation make it one of the best whodunnits in recent memory.

This is by far one of the most creative, most satisfying, and most appealing games I’ve played all year, firmly sitting at the top of my GOTY 2020 list.

Paradise Killer is an exceptionally enjoyable piece of entertainment. I loved the world and characters and I loved solving the mystery. Anyone who enjoys piecing things together and carefully combing over a digital world for goodies will likely be elated by what's on offer.

There’s nothing so gauche or straightforward as a Miss Marple denouement reveal, where you discover whether or not your conclusions were correct. In Paradise Killer the truth is more complicated and, counterintuitively, all the more satisfying for it.

For a good while this is a quite motivating, in terms of storytelling quite tense thriller - with a rather disappointing ending.

Paradise Killer is a very intriguing detective story with an interesting and deep world and well-developed characters, which suffers from a number of shortcomings.

Paradise Killer drips with endearing style and charm, but can't quite make its finale match up to its opening hours. Discovering intrigue and mystery is compelling at the start, but the good gets lost in its collectible busywork. Paradise Killer is a good option for virtual detective fanatics in need of new mysteries, but it lacks the staying power of other modern mystery giants.

My new favourite mystery game! I simply couldn't stop playing. With the open world and very little handholding you actually feel like a proper investigator!

Paradise Killer, on the whole, encourages active participation in its world and immersive storytelling, placing the responsibility squarely on your shoulders. It embraces the idea of getting lost, acquiring Blood Crystals (the in-game currency), and gathering numerous seemingly "insignificant" items, each with a brief descriptive passage. While it may initially feel inconvenient to spend tokens for fast travel and other amenities, the game provides audio hints to aid your search, so simply embrace exploration and don't fear exhausting your resources.

The concept of an open world mystery game is really cool and I love the atmosphere in this game but there is an overwhelming amount of random **** to get and im pretty sure most of it is just random junk that doesn't do anything. There's also like 10 billion options when you talk to each character on top of an already surreal plot. Maybe I'm just too stupid to play this game idk.

Not my style of game, I was uninterested with the vast majority of characters and it felt like walking sim over a detective mystery game

A 2 without Auto Text Advance, could be a 7 with Auto Text Advance. This game has lots of text, and you have to press a key or controller button after every sentence to advance to the next sentence, then you have to press a key or controller button to advance to the next sentence, then you have to press a key or controller button to advance to the next sentence, ad infinitum. I don't like this. It would be simple to have Auto Text Advance as an option, so that people who want it, like me, can have it, and people who don't want it, don't have to have it. So I stopped playing. If it had Auto Text Advance, I would have played it more and given it more of a chance, but with all the other great games I can play, this situation of lots of text and no Auto Text Advance means this game is a low priority for me.