Day One Xbox Game Pass Game Chinatown Detective Agency Explained
Even though Sony has started to pull back the curtains on its plans for PlayStation Plus’ future, Microsoft has continued to deliver with its own subscription service in the present. In a turn of events that has become typical for the Netflix-esque platform in recent years, subscribers to Xbox Game Pass on console, mobile, and PC are in for a treat throughout April. Hits like Dragon Age 2 and Life is Strange: True Colors in particular will no doubt go down well among players.
One game that’s sure to catch the eye of many Xbox Game Pass subscribers is the curiously named Chinatown Detective Agency. Beyond the fact that the game has made its debut on the service this week as a day one launch title, there’s several design and mechanical reasons why players should keep it on their radar as well. That’s especially true if they also happen to be fans of old-school adventure games or cyberpunk fiction.
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Developed by the small indie studio General Interactive Co, Chinatown Detective Agency is ostensibly a tribute to an iconic part of the gaming industry’s past. That’s because at its core, the day one Xbox Game Pass addition is an immersive point-and-click adventure game. What’s exciting about that from a simple mechanical point of view is, during an era dominated by AAA titles focused on 3D photo-realism, that type of gaming experience has become an increasingly rare and precious phenomenon.
Chinatown Detective Agency is more than just a throwback to the past though, set primarily against the backdrop of a near-future incarnation of Singapore, the game also looks simultaneously to humanity’s future. Taking place during the late 2030s, General Interactive Co’s game
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