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Crooked Superpowers Detective Agency

Play as a broke, unreliable private detective armed with a shabby retro watch that randomly switches superpowers. Sneak, tail suspects, capture evidence, and plan every ability use carefully, because every switch costs money.

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About the Game

You were never a great detective. Your photos are blurry, your clients are angry, and your rent is overdue. Then one day, after helping a strange old man in an alley, you receive a battered old digital watch with a single button.

Press it, and your superpower changes instantly.

Press it, and your wallet gets lighter too.

With the crooked watch on your wrist, you start taking bizarre investigation jobs across a city overflowing with secrets. Stake out luxury apartments, tail suspicious targets through neon streets, sneak into private rooms, uncover scandals, and capture the proof that really matters. Fly to rooftops, climb sheer walls, turn invisible for a few seconds, slow time, read thoughts, or even transform into a small dog to slip through tight spaces.

But the watch never works for free. Every power switch costs cash, and the price rises each time you use it in the same in-game day. That means every mission becomes a balancing act between reward, route planning, and ability timing. Spend too much and you go broke. Spend too little and you may miss the perfect shot.

In this city, everyone is hiding something. Your job is to get the evidence, then decide what that evidence is worth.

### Key Features

- 8 random superpowers: flight, wall-climbing, mind reading, super strength, invisibility, time slow, dog transformation, and rolling slide.

- Evidence-driven photography gameplay focused on angles, access routes, timing, and risk.

- A money-powered ability system where every switch costs cash and gets more expensive each day.

- A variety of investigation scenarios including hotels, warehouses, pet shops, mansions, rooftops, alleys, and labs.

- Light stealth and traversal puzzles built around patrol patterns, vertical spaces, and short-duration powers.

- A darkly comedic detective story about a loser investigator and a very expensive magical watch.