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Detective Gallo

Detective Gallo is a point&click comic-noir adventure that is entirely hand-illustrated and hand-animated, and whose protagonist is a feathered and grumpy private eye struggling with a very tricky case…

75 30 May 2018

Detective Gallo is an adventure developed by Footprints Games, released 30 May 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Detective Gallo is

Detective Gallo is an adventure game developed by Footprints Games and released in 2018. It was published by Adventure Productions. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on AGS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Detective Gallo is a point&click comic-noir adventure that is entirely hand-illustrated and hand-animated, and whose protagonist is a feathered and grumpy private eye struggling with a very tricky case, bizarre characters, and puzzles that will put his insight and patience to the test.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 25 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Detective Gallo holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz Dual Core CPU, 2 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series, Geforce 9400 Series with at least 512 MB VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Detective Gallo launched on 30 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

Detective Gallo — frequently asked questions

When did Detective Gallo come out?
Detective Gallo was released on 30 May 2018 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Detective Gallo?
At minimum, Detective Gallo needs 2 GHz Dual Core CPU, 2 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series, Geforce 9400 Series with at least 512 MB VRAM graphics, 5 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Detective Gallo?
The PC system requirements give two figures: the minimum line says "5 GB available space" and the recommended line says "6 GB available space". Plan for the larger one, since the developer has not said which is current. Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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