Sixth Grade Detective

Sixth Grade Detective is a 109,000-word, text-based interactive story with no graphics or sound effects. You play as a sixth grade detective whose choices shape how you investigate classmates, handle their secrets and navigate middle school.

Investigate classmates

You take on six mini-mysteries involving disappearances, thefts, rumors and your best friend's stolen bike. Search for clues, question suspects, crack codes, dust for fingerprints and interview witnesses. You can reveal the truth, stay silent for the greater good or keep quiet for profit.

Classmates may hire you to protect their reputations, but you must decide how far to go: destroy evidence or even hack a friend's cell phone to uncover an embarrassing secret. You can expose suspects in public or work behind the scenes to help a new friend, and choose whether to keep their secrets or take the money.

Life in sixth grade

Your choices also shape your friendships and school life. You can shine in class or skip school with the rebels, lie to adults if you can get away with it, stand up to bullies, make enemies, and find a date for the dance. You can play as a girl, boy or neither, date classmates of any gender or avoid romance, and discover who your secret admirer is.