Developer posts and news about this game.
Dotson has crossed 5000 copies sold! To celebrate we are going 70% off for Steam Spring Sale 2026. That means Dotson is available for < $5 till March 26 If you ever wanted to get this game, this would be the time to get it!
This meme has been going around and it's the best! It's no secret that Detective Dotson is a love letter to 90s bollywood. So we couldn't resist making a bunch of these! Jokes aside, if you haven't yet watch the full Detective Dotson animated movie on Youtube!
New Music Video! A great mystery deserves a great soundtrack. And Inspector Durai deserves his own anthem. Check out the music video for "Durai Durai" on Youtube!
Achievements made more reasonable Dadi and Rangeela find 50 items Trash, Dance and Mind Reader needs 25 items now Different background music for different parts of the world! There are now 4 distinct tunes. Steam deck performance issues fixed Steam deck headphones now work Steam
Dotson on Deck Detective Dotson plays has received Steam Deck Verified status from Steam! The game looks and plays really well on the deck with larger text adjusted for the device. Controller support is improved and the controller now works in the phone booth. We've also added Ko
The rules for achieving Eagle Eye Detective and Eagle Eye Indoors have changed based on your feedback. Now you have to find a 100 items in each to unlock the achievement. Thank you for your feedback, this should be a lot clearer now. Fix issue where Dotson was getting stuck near
small patch for players getting stuck in tutorial
We've added 4 new languages! Traditional Chinese German Spanish French Added cute character intros in the main menu. Collect them all! There's one more secret one that I can't put in this picture :) Of course Parth had to blink while this picture was taken 🤦♀️ A bunch of fixes.
With a setting that not many games explore, Detective Dotson is a fresh adventure from Masala Games that's out now with Linux support. India is brought to life with some lovely pixel artwork in this new release, it's really quite eye-catching. Read the full article here:
You get achievements for Solving cases Beating the minigames Being a good citizen and throwing trash in the bin Reading minds and of course DANCING yes, there is a bollywood dancing achievement I will go out on a limb and say that's a first ever in a video game
Pause game when window loses focus Controller fixes Chinese localization fixes More fixes reported by users
Detective Dotson the Movie has launched along with the game! It acts as a prologue to the game. It's a 60 minute animated feature film for you to enjoy Watch it HERE
Detective Dotson is a mystery adventure game set in a stylised rendition of modern-day India that puts players in the role of Dotson, a reluctant detective. Read the full article here:
Announcing a brand new demo for Detective Dotson! Available from August 15 - August 22 only. 📝 We are celebrating 15,000 wishlists 💪 We are celebrating the 15th of August - our independence day! 🙏 AND we are a part of the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration!! 🥳 So why is Detect
We love pixel art games, and we know you do too. So, let’s celebrate together 🎉 We’re super excited to share that Detective Dotson is part of the PixElated Festival! This festival is featuring some of the best pixel art games on Steam. From retro-style classics to contemporary i