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Death by Refund

When you hire private detective Frederick Ugarte for a job, be sure you don't change your mind, or you might get a refund you couldn't even begin to imagine.

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About the Game

STORY

After having accidentally glued two guns to his hands, private detective Frederick Ugarte is visited by a mysterious woman. She hires him to retreive some jewels from her abusive ex-husband. Sadly things don't go exactly as planned for Ugarte. Is this due to his incompetence or is he being set up?

THE GAME

In this minimalist 2D hard-boiled detective shooter you won't be distracted by overly complicated upgrade systems, there's no useless skill points or skill trees, there's not a gazillion different guns that are basically reskins of one and the same gun, it's just you and your guns and you shoot and shoot and talk and shoot and shoot and shoot and talk and

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