DinerTown Detective Agency is a different type of hidden object game. The goal of each level is to uncover who has been committing the crime. Players search an area for a list of clues. The casese are not serious cases, though and many of the cases are silly, such as the case were someone was replacing diet meals with full fat meals and the person was gaining weight. Another case requires players to determine who broke all of the hard candy machines at the movie theatre. The reasons behind the cases are as entertaining as the cases.

The entire detective agency was made when Bernie sent away for a detective kit in the mail. Of course, when you get a new toy in the mail you want to use it. Bernie teamed up with Flo to track down the people committing all the crimes.

The hidden object game itself is a bit different than other games in the genre. Players are finding items on a list, but there are three phases to a level to determine who committed the crime. Players track down the clues from a list of items. Sometimes the list of items are pictures of an item that have been hidden around the scene in pieces. In this type of level, one item that needs to be found may be a computer mouse and the mouse is broken into three parts and players have to find all three parts of the computer mouse. On the levels where players are finding pieces of items those pieces are used through out the level. For instance, once the computer mouse is found and completed, it needs to be place back on the computer that is missing the mouse. Another piece to an item or a clue to the mystery will be given when a missing item is replaced.

After all of the items have been located, through normal search or the pieces search, players move on to the next stage. Players have to narrow down the culprits by using the clues. Narrowing down the suspects requires players to play a mini-game of sorts. Sometimes players have to solve jigsaw puzzles and other times players have to match fingerprints of the suspects to the suspects.

After the suspects have been narrowed down, it is off to a question and answer session. The friends of the suspects are asked a set of questions and each one gives an answer when clicked on. From the answers given, player have to determine which suspect is guilty or innocent. There are always three suspects and one of them is always guilty. The theory on who is guilty is determined from the clues found earlier in the level. There are three questions that have three yes or no answers. The guilty party will have the same yes or no answers as the theory questions.

The graphics in DinerTown Detective Agency are nice looking. The levels are all different place around DinerTown. It was neat to see some places around DinerTown that haven’t been in other games and it made it seem more like a real community.

Over all, DinerTown Detective Agency is a great hidden object game that offers a different spin from other hidden object games. The added mini-games to the hidden object game break up the constant search for hidden objects. The cases are all light hearted and keep the game more on the funny side than serious. The entire game is a nice take on the hidden object genre. If you are a hidden object fan, you can’t go wrong with DinerTown Detective Agency.