The Case of the Worst Day Ever

Compared to Golden Idol, this game has to much text and to clunky UI or movement between the screens. While Golden Idol makes you solve who is who and then you understand what the mystery is about, in this game you get the mystery way before you get the who is who. Game is okay. Will change review, when overall sinks below 70%

I really like this kind of game, and the Golden Idol series is my favorite, but I can't even finish this one because... it's boring. The Case of the Worst Day Ever itself is challenging, and some puzzles are hard to crack, some even harder than in any Golden Idol game. But the game's plot and characters are so dull and uninteresting, so I didn't have enough motivation to complete it even when I was on the last level. It just feels like there's no sense in trying hard to solve the most difficult puzzle because you won't find anything interesting in the finale.

Developers delivered on "deceptively difficult" but a lot of that was because it didn't look difficult at all. When your expectations are cozy game slop it doesn't take much to earn that label. Another reviewer mentioned this but it bears repeating, Worst Day leans far too heavily into SAT questions that insult your willingness to suspend disbelief. Are you for real telling me that the order that kids were marching across a stage was written out as "a zebra went last… no cheetahs went before or after each other… colin was fourth…"?? Or that a kennel would make up their own names for dogs and use that to assign medication?? It feels like the developers gave up on actually constructing mysteries after the midway point and just passed the buck to the SAT prep manual. The last half's "difficulty" is almost entirely the quantity of extended logic chains set up to identify a dozen people at a time. I was able to solve the underlying mystery long before I put together who everyone was (or what cakes they made, or what costume they wore) which made slogging through identifying them even more tedious. Another really annoying bit of tedium (that's our buzzword for this game now), there are a lot of cell phones and it takes four clicks to get into a message. Really should've pulled them into a UI element somewhere. No other clue source takes that many clicks to get through. It sounds petty but you’ll get to a point where you start a new case just bracing yourself for the 40 clicks to open all the text messages and get your clues while all the other clues together take 15 clicks to get through. I got it on sale and the first few mysteries were worth the price. I love a good red herring and the developers clearly know how to write red herrings in… so I don't get why they fell back on giving us homework towards the end. Also would’ve been nice to get something more than a 15 second animation after solving all the cases.