Duppy Detective Tashia

About

Duppy Detective Tashia is a point and click adventure where you help a woman named Tashia solve a murder mystery while looking for her lost phone. The story starts after an attack leads you to the Halfway Market, a busy spot under a cotton tree filled with spirits. You will talk to ghostly residents there to learn about their past lives and how they died before finding the killer. This Caribbean folklore inspired game plays out as a single player experience on PC without any multiplayer elements. The community rates this title as chill since it has just one vote, but that fits the slow paced investigation style well. You get to explore a market populated by the dead rather than living people, which creates a strange but calm atmosphere. The game does not rush you through the plot and lets you take your time examining clues at your own pace. Spritewrench built this world around local stories instead of generic horror tropes, giving the setting a specific flavor you do not see often in mystery games.

Storyline

Chasing after her assailant, Tashia discovers a bustling market, hidden under a sprawling cotton tree, the Halfway Market. Quickly realizing that she has lost much more than a cell phone. Tashia is distraught to discover that somehow she's become enmeshed in a murder mystery. She must now find the culprit among the ghostly denizens of the market, learning about their lives before the market, as well as their untimely deaths.