Scriptic Netflix Edition Reviews

I downloaded this game from Netflix and am so glad I did! Both stories, Dead Man’s Phone and Unmasked were SO well made and had great production value and storytelling. The real actors and images completely drew me in, and found the endings of both to be quite a surprise. There are multiple endings depending on your decisions made, and I found myself wanting to go back and play for different outcomes. The dialogue was a little cheesy at times, but overall really enjoyed these games! I will say I went and downloaded the regular Scriptic app to see if they had more games, but the two there (Dispatcher & Dark Mode) were MUCH shorter, anthology-type formats, so not quite the same enjoyment. I feel like Dark Mode has potential to be made into longer story formats and could be fun. Hoping ScripticNetflixEdition continues to release more stories at the higher level of production and game length!

LOVE this game! The interaction of this game hooks you in and makes you feel as if you’re actually a lead detective solving crime. But, there are many issues that I’ve found while playing that pulls you back to reality. When I close ScripticNetflixEdition , sometimes it will not save my progress and I’ll have to completely restart an episode, which is annoying. Sometimes the videos do not play, which isn’t a huge issue, but it feels like it defeats the purpose of the game. The last issue I found was that I closed ScripticNetflixEdition when I was playing the alternate ending to the first story and lost my progress. I tried to restart the episode but the “alternate ending” was just the ending I received the first time I played the story. So, I would have to completely replay the story to view the alternate ending I was supposed to get. Again, love this game and I could play it for hours. But, I would like to see these issues fixed because they really mess with the game experience.

This is a fun way to experience a detective story because the game does a good job of making you feel like the detective! I enjoyed it very much and the only issues I had were;
-Game runs well but cloud saves dont work so make sure you have ample time to play through an entire episode without stopping and disable cloud save to avoid annoying popup errors. Episodes run for about 30 to 40 minutes.
-Accessibility for deaf and HOH is very good, but a couple inconsequential videos did not have captions near the end of “Unmasked”
-Your choices dont matter for the most part, making this more of a visual novel instead of an actual game. There is one critical choice in each story that will lead to an alternate ending. The critical choice is fairly easy to spot since all the other choices are clearly minor variations of the same response whereas the critical one will have widely different responses.
-My detective acts unprofessional sometimes particularly during the interactions with the kids in the chat room in the first story which broke immersion for me a bit.
I do hope Scriptic will add more stories in the future!

This is a great and unique concept for a game and so fun- if it was actually playable… the cloud save and local save pop up way too frequently for me to still lose a huge chunk of progress and have to restart the slow and agitating interviews and conversations… and why does clicking the cloud save restart ScripticNetflixEdition and break the icons so they’re un-clickable and break messages? I also lost 2 entire interviews somehow, and I don’t even wanna play this game anymore because it’s so horribly buggy… it’s not even worth it to go back and restart, and why do my text message boxes just disappear entirely? Such a great unique concept for a game, but takes up so much storage for the little intervals of gameplay I have before a save message comes up, ScripticNetflixEdition crashes, or breaks and won’t fix even if I force stop ScripticNetflixEdition .. I even freed up storage thinking it was my phone, just to come write this review and find many other people have the same problem.

This game is amazing. I could and would play it for hours. However there are so many glitches and bugs! If you exit out of ScripticNetflixEdition , you lose any progress you’ve made. There were several times I had to restart episodes after already finishing them. Also, there were several times the chat feature would freeze with no options to continue the story even though there were no clues left to find in the victims phone - so I was stuck waiting for ScripticNetflixEdition to unfreeze so I could keep playing. This game is so intricate and I love it. I hope they fix these issues and add more episodes.

I’m going to continue playing it. It is a bit addicting and as an adult I don’t play many phone games but this has captured my interest. I like that some things will take real time just like real life. Keep in mind that if you silence your phone which is a constant for me these days, you’ll have no sound in the game. You have to un-mute to hear sounds. I haven’t used every feature yet but really cool concept. And neat how you can play from the music app in a persons phone in the game and have that as music, even shuffle. Just nest ideas so far. Only bug so far is periodically I get a cloud save error. One time it crashed ScripticNetflixEdition when I made a choice.

I played the first part of this game in it’s entirety, in one sitting. I won’t be playing the second part, because NSFW themes make me uncomfortable.

At first, I’ll be honest- I hated it. It seemed like a half-baked Simulacra rip-off. But now that I’ve played it, while I still believe that’s a little true, I think the story was original enough to make up for it! The UI could be better, and there are certain plot points that could’ve been better written, but the videography and voice acting was amazing. I liked it!

The other reviews say it themselves- this game has some bugs. Overall though, this is an amazing interactive crime investigation game. The stories are intriguing and have plot twists left and right. Each story can take you a day if you’re like me and binge it, or up to a few weeks of fun and investment. The only thing I’ll say it there’s not much variety in the outcome besides one decision towards the end, but throughout the story you’ll feel like you messed up the investigation while it’s just the story. Hoping for more stories soon!!

I downloaded the game they going to be something fun to play got through the first episode no problem once I got into the second episode is starting to make me wait 2-5 hoursFour different things to be finished I left ScripticNetflixEdition because I’m not gonna spend five hours on a nap waiting for something to be done if I can’t do anything on it when I came back to ScripticNetflixEdition I had to restart the episode which means I had to restart that 2 to 5 hour waiting periodVery crappy game not worth your time. If the bugs are fixed it might be worth playing and I’d be willing to play it again but not until I knew the bugs are fixed and it was worth actually putting my time into

It shows the realities of being in this world. The choices are in your hands. Where we falter as human beings as a whole, how we can be better, and how the choices we make can effect everything around us. Gameplay is fluid and you easily move through this game like you are watching a movie. Kudos to the developers for being able to evoke such emotions from me from one end of the spectrum to the other. Never played anything like this ❤️

The game itself is fun, not very glitchy, and overall is a very cool concept. My issues with this game start with how it doesn’t save your progress—not entirely. It will save up to a certain point. It will ask you if you want to do a local save or a cloud save- and the next time you log in if you choose the same option, it will start you back a ridiculous amount of episodes back. So you’ve essentially lost hours of progress. Again, the game is fun, but if I could start at my actual last save it would be a whole lot better.

It’s a really great game. I love the storytelling and it has enough twists and turns to keep me interested. Currently there are two stories. I like playing an episode of one and then the other. Unfortunately, by doing this I was spoiled on the ending of one story, as the culprit responsible showed up in the other story as a trending news article on “Chirper”. Kind of a let down, I think they could have left that out as it had nothing to do with the other story. I’ll still finish both.

Hello I’d like to say I’m new to the game and I absolutely love it. But I am hard of hearing somewhat and constantly use subtitles. Is there a way the game can be updated with captions or subtitles? Like when calls happen or when reviewing audio or videos from the victims phone. That’s the hardest for me is trying to hear everything they say in videos or audio. This would be a great thing for people who can’t always hear or in loud environments.

I a mystery junky so this was right up my alley and I truly enjoyed it. Other users mentioned the bug issues, all of which I have experienced. For more experienced crime solvers, I’d like to see an option where clues are not highlighted - feels too easy. I’d like the option to discover those on my own(perhaps just knowing total number of clues available per episode to see how many I’ve discovered?). More episodes, please!

Def one of the best games/ apps I’ve ever downloaded. Definitely play with a friend/partner. Only thing I would change is you’re not sure when to start the next episode and when you’re done with the current one. You just run out of options to do and things to play so you have no option but start next episode. Makes me question if I’m stuck or if I need to play next.

I haven’t been able to put my phone down for hours! Really immersive, great storytelling. I wish there were an option to speed things up a tad, especially since I had to replay one episode. Some of the time it takes to play through receiving some “messages” gets a little long but it’s more than worth it! Thanks Netflix for a really entertaining game for free.

This game is so fun, I love the live action in it! It also has SO many bugs. It makes it very hard to get through, but I still did. From the cloud save thing to the never ending Sophie phone call and rewinding me back to make the right decision even though I had made the right decision to begin with. Also, the spelling errors drive me a bit crazy. With all this said I cannot wait for another story!

This is conceptually a great idea but too many flaws in execution to really make it enjoyable such as:

1. As mentioned by other reviewers, the progress save system is buggy and I’ve lost progress on very lengthy conversations that are not pleasant to re-live, a time waster.

2. Some conversations seemingly go on forever with no choices for the player along the way. At times I feel like I’m just reading a book, not playing a game.

3. Sometimes even the supposed choices just feel like the game is funneling me. At one point I basically had to reveal discretionary information to people when I knew it was a bad idea, but the game wouldn’t let me move forward without doing it. So I did it and sure enough it came back to bite me later.

4. The first storyline is frankly a bit cliche’d at this point with all the usual racism tropes playing out.

I saw the reviews talking about the glitches and I hadn’t experienced one yet until now. It’s an awesome game overall. First of all we love no ads. The only issue I have is on ep 3 for the first story the snapapp isn’t working so therefore I can’t go any further into the story bc I need to access ScripticNetflixEdition in order to continue with the investigation. If you guys could please fix the issue I would love to get back to playing.

This game is so fun and addictive, it definitely challenges you to pick the correct path in order to get the best outcome. There are some glitches in both seasons but they were mildly annoying, not a dealbreaker. I really hope they come out with Season 3 soon!!! I feel like I missed my calling in life after playing this game 😆😂

I could stop playing this game. It took a matter of two weeks to finish two seasons please, I am begging you please come out with more seasons I am addicted. I never thought I would be into crimes and things of that nature. I even started reading the script out loud in a London accent that’s how involved I was with it. This game gets a five star from me and that usually never happens. Please come out with more episodes. PLEASEEE 😩😭

As a true crime lover, I was honestly completely blown away by this game. The twist and turns were excellent in both episodes that I watched, kept me on the edge of my seat and really stretch the brain. Another thing I really like about it is that there’s such psychological and human depth to these stories, whether you’re interacting with certain witnesses and people going through emotional things, or seeing the real effect that solving cases like this in real life have on the police I don’t think I ever really appreciated the challenges of police officers in dealing with murder investigations. One night after going to bed after completing one of the games, I couldn’t stop thinking about what if I had done things differently if it would’ve turned out differently, not wanting to give out spoilers, but it felt so real. It really does weigh on you I can’t say enough about this game and I absolutely can’t wait for them to put up new episodes and I would absolutely pay for it. I’m ecstatic that it’s available through Netflix but I would pay every month to have this game! Please make more episodes soon!

Firstly, I love this game because it really feels like your a detective and your piecing things together, it’s like your traveling to another dimension. However, my experience always seems to get interrupted by the bugs. Sometimes it doesn’t allow me to sign in and I have to wait a very long time. ScripticNetflixEdition says my password is incorrect and an hour later I come back in and sign in and then it finally allows me into ScripticNetflixEdition even though I’m putting in the same password as before? In addition, the site freezes sometimes during conversations and it really messes with the vibe. When these freezes happen that’s when I get logged out and I cannot sign back in. But, when I do sign back in my progress gets messed up and the stories get super glitchy and I have to move onto another story and then that story freezes and then the process repeats. These glitches are very frustrating and I really hope the Netflix team fixes this because this game has so much opportunity to be great but there’s so many issues which downgrades the experience rating from me. I don’t think it’s just me because other reviewers also say the bugs are frustrating which is such a shame because they also say this game is also very fun and has so much opportunity.

Hope this helped new players to understand what they are downloading 😂. I also hope this reaches the attention of the Netflix team because I love this game but I just get incredibly irritated with the bugs. Thxxx

So, I downloaded this game literally just two days ago. And at first, I loved it. It was really fun and interactive. There was a lot of attention to detail and it felt very real. However, when I went on the next day, it had logged me out of my account. And after I logged back in, it wasn’t working. My progress had been saved but I couldn’t do anything. Nothing was working. So I decided to restart since I was only on Episode 2. But then, about 30 minutes into replaying it, it randomly logged me out AGAIN. And when I signed back in, NOTHING WORKED! I tried somethings and it would just reset me back to the beginning. ScripticNetflixEdition has so much potential and I would’ve played it for hours, if it only worked.

Played one story, it gives you options but none of them have an impact on what happens except one that gives you either a bad or good ending (and there’s absolutely no indication that the choice is important at all). I was hoping for the chance to actually do some deduction and detective work, but nope. This is basically find the next available button to press until the story is over. Pretty good presentation though, and some ok writing, although it tries to tackle weighty topics without the chops to pull them off.

I LOVE this game & the feeling of being an actual detective. I wanted to do that for a living, obviously didn’t, so feeling like I’m the lead officer is amazing. I give it four stars mainly because I wish it was like the original scriptics’ game not associated with Netflix. You only have the option of TWO stories, both interested but that’s it? With the other one, you have multiple stories (i don’t like each episode being a different plot) & i wish we just had more stories like these. PLEASE take this into consideration. I’m currently playing the game over to get another outcome just because i loved it so much.

This game is really amazing, I love feeling like an actual detective. Both stories are very mysterious and interesting…and there has been nights when I’ve fell asleep way beyond my sleep schedule, that’s how good this game is. You should definitely give it a try, just be mindful that there are some sensitive topics, moments, etc. there will be killing, statements, and more.

The only thing that I dislike is that there’s only two stories currently, I really want more Netflix 👀.

Such an intriguing game! Great graphics, awesome storylines, I love detective stories, love solving mysteries. Both stories concern modern social issues such as racism, police brutality, misogyny, mistreatment of sex workers, and other subjects that are painful to confront. I like that the last chapter of each case allows for you to see the alternate ending so you can see what happens when you make different choices. Unfortunately, I had to stop playing during the alternate ending chapter of the first story. When I resumed the game, the story was stuck. No options to speak to anyone, nothing to do and I couldn’t replay or restart that chapter either. Also, there are quite a few videos that start automatically and they sometimes cut off the conversation before you have a chance to read it. Overall it’s a fantastic game, it just needs a few revisions to be its best version of itself. A few new cases couldn’t hurt either, as there are only 2.