MicroMacro: Downtown Detective

1.2.11

Soft Boiled Games

4.60

3,953 reviews

100,000+
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Free

Find clues, solve crimes in a giant city

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Pros & Cons

Immersive giant city map with hidden details and clever deductions
Three free cases to start, plus 22 additional cases and a 14-case expansion available via in-app purchases
Multilingual support broadens reach across key languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese)
Solo detective experience derived from a beloved board game, delivering a unique city-scale mystery

Marketing lacks several generic competitor keywords such as games, mystery, investigation, and story in promotional text
Focus on a city-map puzzle may limit appeal for players seeking non-map style experiences
Promotional messaging could more explicitly emphasize investigation and puzzle framing to attract broader audiences

About MicroMacro: Downtown Detective

MicroMacro: Downtown Detective is an adventure app developed by Soft Boiled Games.

Install Statistics

MicroMacro: Downtown Detective has been installed 390 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 26 thousand times. It is ranked in the top 100 adventure apps.

User Ratings

MicroMacro: Downtown Detective is rated 4.60 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 4 thousand ratings.

App Information

MicroMacro: Downtown Detective is freely available from Google Play. The app size is 739.68 MB. The latest version available is 1.2.11. The last update was on April 9, 2026.

Technical Requirements

MicroMacro: Downtown Detective requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play since August 2025.

Description by Soft Boiled Games (from Google Play)

Investigate crimes on a huge city map, jam-packed with hidden details, challenging puzzles, weird folks—and lots of crimes. 🕵️‍♀️

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Installs over time

MicroMacro: Downtown Detective has been installed 390 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 860 installs per day.

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Comments on MicroMacro: Downtown Detective for Android

★★★★★ Janelle K · Sep 4, 2026

This is a great little game! I really enjoy the art style and how each 'case' is designed. It's fun to see characters from previous cases while working on the later ones, and I found it got easier as I learned where certain areas were on the map. I just purchased the expansion and am I looking forward to more!

★★★★★ Marcus Beirne · Oct 16, 2026

Fun and challenging investigations. The world is cartoon and fun, but the crimes are fun but sometimes deadly 😁

★★★★★ RadRosa89 · Oct 18, 2026

It's a really fun and quirky game, I genuinely loved playing it! I really want there to be more cases to solve. There are completely no ads in the free addition of the game, but paying for the extended version is worth it.

★★☆☆☆ benjamin d taylor · Sep 7, 2026

I thought I would love this game, as I knew it was an adaptation of the popular board game. The art and writing is indeed very charming, but the design of the app (particularly as it was intended to gate content for microtransactions) hinders nonlinear thinking and introduces hard limits to how you solve the mysteries. I love deductive games like "Return of the Obra Dinn", which I imagine the original board game would resemble. I wish I'd saved my money for that.

★★☆☆☆ Edward Howells · Oct 27, 2026

Should be clear from the get go that you only get 3 levels for 3 and that the full game costs £5.99. Too little of the game for free to then want to buy it

★★☆☆☆ Emma King · Jul 18, 2026

THIS GAME COSTS MORE THAN $7. There is a second payment required later in the game for the rest of the content. It seems very well-thought-out and the art style is clean and cute. I would have much preferred these free levels listed in the app store as "MicroMacro Demo" (free) and the full game listed separately on the app store as "MicroMacro" ($7) and included the FULL game. (Rewritten for clarity)

Google Play Rankings for MicroMacro: Downtown Detective

Top rankings

Rank	Country	Category	List
42	Germany	Adventure	Top Free
45	France	Adventure	Top Free
47	Switzerland	Adventure	Top Free
142	Canada	Adventure	Top Free
51	France	Adventure	Top Grossing
78	Spain	Adventure	Top Free
58	Germany	Adventure	Top Grossing
91	Netherlands	Adventure	Top Free
169	United Kingdom	Adventure	Top Free
178	United States	Adventure	Top Grossing

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