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Is Sixth Grade Detective worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Readers of text-based interactive fiction who want school mysteries
- Players interested in relationship choices alongside investigations
- Players seeking optional romance and flexible character identity
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for graphics, sound effects, or action-focused detective gameplay
- Players who prefer a single fixed storyline rather than choices about secrets, relationships, and school conduct
- Players seeking large-scale crime cases beyond middle-school incidents
Our take on Sixth Grade Detective
Its defining format is a 109,000-word, entirely text-based interactive novel in which choices direct the middle-school detective story.
What is Sixth Grade Detective?
Play as a sixth-grade detective in a 109,000-word, text-only interactive novel.
Investigate six short mysteries involving disappearances, thefts, rumors, and a stolen bicycle. Search for evidence, question classmates, decode messages, examine fingerprints, and interview witnesses while deciding what to reveal or conceal. Choices shape relationships with friends, enemies, bullies, classmates, and adults. The story allows classroom success or truancy, deception, evidence destruction, and attempts to access a friend's phone. Character creation includes playing as a girl, boy, or neither, with options to date classmates of any gender or avoid romance. Other story threads include identifying a secret admirer and finding a date for the school dance.
How Sixth Grade Detective plays
- 01Six Mystery Cases
- The investigation covers six separate school incidents, including missing people, thefts, rumors, and a stolen bicycle.
- 02Text-Only Format
- The 109,000-word story uses written passages rather than graphics or sound effects.
- 03Branching Decisions
- Choices can shape friendships, rivalries, secrecy, romance, and how investigations are handled.
- 04Flexible Character Identity
- The protagonist can be played as a girl, boy, or neither, with romance optional.
- 05Investigation Activities
- Cases involve finding clues, questioning suspects, decoding messages, examining fingerprints, and interviewing witnesses.
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Sixth Grade Detective: platforms & release
Is Sixth Grade Detective worth it?
It is worth it if: readers of text-based interactive fiction who want school mysteries. Skip it if: players looking for graphics, sound effects, or action-focused detective gameplay.
Where can I download Sixth Grade Detective?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Sixth Grade Detective's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Sixth Grade Detective on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
