Detective Darwin
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Detective Darwin is a private investigator, a single human stranded on a planet full of blobby aliens with sophisticated cycle of evolution.
Followed by his alien assistant, Mendel, and using his amazing skill of relation deducing, he solves various cases in order to fix broken families.
There are 5 cases to solve, aliens are randomly generated.
The core idea: aliens have certain properties (leg count, eye count, colors...), there are specific rules of inheritance for each of these properties. Your task, as a detective, is to find a certain alien within a given group, using these rules. It might be a long-lost children, elderly parents or step-brother.
CONTROLS:
Mouse only.
Click to skip dialogs.
Punch - be pushy, make them spit it out
Pet - be gentle, listen to their heart
Point (in selection mode) - select alien(s)
Followed by his alien assistant, Mendel, and using his amazing skill of relation deducing, he solves various cases in order to fix broken families.
There are 5 cases to solve, aliens are randomly generated.
The core idea: aliens have certain properties (leg count, eye count, colors...), there are specific rules of inheritance for each of these properties. Your task, as a detective, is to find a certain alien within a given group, using these rules. It might be a long-lost children, elderly parents or step-brother.
CONTROLS:
Mouse only.
Click to skip dialogs.
Punch - be pushy, make them spit it out
Pet - be gentle, listen to their heart
Point (in selection mode) - select alien(s)