The Detective Society Tracking Order Status

Took 2 weeks for item to arrive. I emailed to ask where my order was but I never received a response.

Slow to despatch and ponderous to contact. Real detectives have phones!

Great fun. Our second adventure with them. We are waiting for the third one to be delivered now

I decided to give The Detective Society a try as they are based here in the UK, and the import costs for these kinds of games from the U.S are quite steep. I am on Epsiode 2 of Season One, so still a relatively new experience, but the production values are very high, both in the documents provided and the online content. The email and phone bot interactions add another welcome layer to proceedings and the story is engaging. The way that the Detective Society differs from other episodic games of its ilk is in the tone. The websites and newspaper clippings are peppered with sarcastic comments, social commentary, and observational humour (some of which is very funny) and are therefore overtly fake and gamified. Whether you like this or not depends on what you are looking for in your mystery experience. It can be very entertaining and raise a smile, but at the same time can break the immersive quality of the game. It reminds you that you are not deep into a real case, and that this world is slightly askew. I play lots of these games and they all have a slightly different approach, so I don't mind TDS forging its own path, but I personally prefer detective games that take themselves a little more seriously, hence why I dropped a star. The quality of the product is excellent, but the 'wink wink' humour is an unnecessary distraction.

I was very excited for this game and bought it as a present. 9 days after the purchase I tried to contact the customer service and 2 days later I was informed by the customer service that my package was shipped. They also said that I should get a tracking number and that the service worker herself will try to get it for me. Since now 5 days after her email I have still no tracking number and I doubt if I ever will get my package. My purchase is now 2 weeks ago. I'm really sad and hope that the game will arrive someday. Good point for the detective society, the customer service was friendly but all in all till now a sad experience. Especially for the high price of the game.