Sergeant Squidley: Space Cop!

Sergeant Squidley: Space Cop! is a decision-based RPG about solving the murder of Detective Dex Beeglor. Sergeant Squidley, hastily promoted from traffic duty after the town’s best cop is killed, has one week to investigate the case in Moontropolis. You can pursue the investigation or set it aside and spend the week living Squidley’s life.

Investigate Moontropolis

You can examine the crime scene, interview the victim’s family and ask around town to identify suspects. The city has dozens of characters, each with their own personality, daily schedule and opinion of Squidley. Your choices shape how the story unfolds, with hundreds of decisions leading along many possible paths and tangents.

Choose how to spend the week

You can play Squidley as a dutiful police officer, indulge his criminal side or ignore police work to pursue a side hustle as a jazz saxophonist. You can also take time off to reconnect with his estranged young son. As a recently divorced man, Squidley can use the dating app Flintr to arrange dates with people he meets around the city. His ex-wife also complicates his life, and a dark secret is held by nearly everyone in town.

Manage Squidley’s needs

Squidley’s core stats are Strength, Investigation and Handiness. You need to keep him rested and well-fed, or his abilities and health begin to decline.

A week in the city

The objective is to solve Detective Dex Beeglor’s murder within a week, but there are more things to do around Moontropolis than time to fit them all in. You decide whether to follow the case or leave it behind, and how your choices affect the story. The game draws on text-based DOS games of the late 1980s and early 1990s.