May 162025
Our next mystery game is a short, free PC game called Fonzi Fuddy: Ace Defective.
You play “a,” a detective intern whose first day on the job is marred when she accidentally stabs someone to death. Oops.
Now it’s time to investigate the case alongside your detective partner, Fonzi Fuddy, with the help of the Backwards Corruption Jump device.
This device lets you force a suspect to tell the truth when you find a contradiction. If someone makes a statement that contradicts the evidence, you present the evidence to them. Then you have to fight them in a simple RPG battle. Once you defeat them, time rewinds and they replace their lie with the truth.
On the other hand, if you have evidence that appears to incriminate someone else, you can always make an accusation and get them accused of the crime instead…
There are early endings if you choose to accuse someone, as well as one full ending if you pursue the truth all the way to the end to untangle the full mystery of what happened.
It’s cute and silly, and it’s full of charm. The gameplay is pretty simple, including the combat system, and it takes less than an hour to beat. It looks like it was made for a game jam originally, with a complete version that came out later.
It also ends on a note that suggests there could be a sequel, and I’d love to see a full game in this style. Fonzi Fuddy: Ace Defective is a short game, but it’s worth taking a look at.
This sounds like a very silly, fun game concept! I am curious about it. Ace Defective is also a pretty good reference, haha
Haha, yes. It’s definitely a fun little game!
I’m not going to ask how you accidentally stab someone to death. I AM going to ask how that doesn’t immediately solve the mystery, since you already know you’re the killer? Haha.
Also I love that you can “win” the game by falsely accusing someone else of, again, a murder you presumably did yourself.
Haha, well yes, the basic premise is that you’re pretending to investigate while trying to find evidence that could frame someone else, but there are more layers to the situation to uncover along the way.