Independent game developer Masala Games revealed a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming mystery adventure game, Detective Dotson, at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2024.
Detective Dotson is a mystery adventure game set in a stylised rendition of modern-day India that puts players in the role of Dotson, a detective. Players can wishlist the game from the Steam store page, and a demo for the game is also out on Steam.
The demo has players solving the mysterious death of Detective Dotson’s father. The players chase down criminals, hunt for clues, create disguises, spy on foes, and recruit team members. While the demo has a slice of what to expect, the full release contains more episodes and is slated for release later this year.
Along with this, Future Games Show’s hosts – Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2) and Britt Baron (Tifa from FFVII Rebirth and Justine from Netflix’s comedy-drama wrestling show Glow) – were brought into the world of Dotson as pixel art versions of themselves to reveal the trailer.
“We always like to make pixel art versions of the creators that work with us — it’s our way of saying ‘thank you’,” said Masala Games founder and CEO Shalin Shodhan. “Future Games Show gave us the opportunity to take this a step further by letting us drop the show presenters into our Indian street-side set. When we found out it was Red Dead Redemption 2’s Roger Clark and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s Britt Baron, we were ecstatic to have them decked up in Dotson-ified avatars. We produced the whole segment in four days in Unreal Engine. ”
Developed in Unity, the game features controller support and an original soundtrack by Nikhil Rao of Indian Ocean fame.