Bounty Hunter: Space Detective Reviews

Cute little time-waster. For $1.50 (sale) you can't go too wrong. It's basically Where's Waldo but with moving parts and a different target each time. It is the same thing over and over again with more of everything as the levels get harder. The backgrounds also switch from dark to light which can really mess with you depending on the ships you're assigned to look for. Even on Easy mode, I was alternating between finding my target instantly to staring at the screen for the entire time limit and never once seeing any of the ships I was looking for thanks to the background being a color that camouflaged the ONE little thing that would have made my targets stand out on a different background. Hard mode really amps up the number of ships (from 400 to 800) scrolling across the screen and gives you more targets to keep an eye out for. Everything moves faster, too. You get a score based on how much time you have left after shooting your last target but that score doesn't seem to do anything or unlock any fun new goodies. There are also VIP ships that show up randomly, but only in hard mode. The game could probably benefit from some power-ups or unlockables. As for the other aspects of the game: Music/sounds: Only able to turn off or on, no sliders. Music is actually not too bad, even if it's the same tune forever and ever. Resolution: I can't find any options in-game for resolution other than the + button in main menu that either makes it fullscreen or some preset windowed resolution that you don't get to choose. Achievements: There are NOW achievements pertaining to shooting the VIP ships but there aren't any based on scores, so I have no idea what good scores are. To wrap it up: as I opened with, it's a nice time-waster for the price. Simple, it works, and it's chill. Probably a good one for winding down before bed but once you've got all the achievements, there probably isn't much reason to keep going.

I bought Bounty Hunter: Stampede, Space Detective and Ocean Diver. Ocean Diver is, I think, the prettiest, Space Detective is proving to be the hardest and Stampede is sort of in the middle. The three games are really all the same, they even use the same music, they are cheap and they are fun. There is a lot of criticism of the game for being short. I've played it and it does feel like that. All the games are short and timed and after completing, or failing, one the player is bounced back to the menu so there is no feeling of progression. However the more I play the bigger the population in my city gets and that's what unlocks Steam achievements .So if you want a quick shot of space based action this probably is not for you, if you want something that will give you lot of quick achievements this probably is not for you. Basically this is a cheap, fun game that is easy to pick up and put down and it is a bit different other games I've played. I find Space Detective to be quite challenging and it demands my full attention when I ply it as the differences between the ships are really minor. Since the three games are so similar I'd probably get either Space Detective because it's tougher or Ocean Diver because it's prettier.