Criminal Investigation - Hidden Object
LumiScore?Our 0–100 score for how developmentally beneficial and low-risk this game is for children. Higher is better.
Growth
40/100
Growth Value
- Problem Solving
- Spatial Awareness
- Memory & Attention
Risk
MODERATE
Engagement Patterns
Some engagement mechanics worth discussing.
Heads up
Parent Pro-Tip
Before your child plays, go to your device's Settings and disable in-app purchases, and review the Facebook permissions the app requests — deny access to contacts and location. Set a natural session limit of one or two crime scenes per sitting, which the episode structure makes easy to enforce.
Top Skills Developed
Development Areas
Representation?How diverse the game's characters are in gender and ethnicity. Higher = more authentic representation. Display only — does not affect time recommendation.
Bechdel Test?The Bechdel Test checks whether a game has at least two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man. A simple measure of representation.— N/A — no named characters
The game has no meaningful narrative dialogue between named characters, making the Bechdel test inapplicable.
Parent Pro-Tip
Play alongside your child and talk through how they are scanning the scene — ask 'how did you spot that so fast?' to reinforce the visual attention and systematic search strategies the game builds. You can also use the crime narratives as a springboard to discuss real-world concepts like evidence, fairness, and justice.
What your child develops
Criminal Investigation – Hidden Object offers genuine cognitive engagement through its core hidden-object mechanic. Players must sustain focused visual attention, exercise spatial scanning, and use working memory to locate items across detailed crime-scene illustrations — all skills linked to improved attention and perceptual processing in children and adolescents. The episodic structure introduces light reading and narrative comprehension as players follow case storylines, while timed challenges add a modest layer of reaction-time pressure. The 'spot the difference' and matching puzzle variants diversify the cognitive load, nudging players to switch between perceptual strategies. The crime-investigation framing also introduces basic concepts of evidence, cause-and-effect reasoning, and justice, providing a thin but real scaffold for ethical reasoning conversations.
Regulatory Compliance
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About this game
AN ALL-NEW HIDDEN OBJECT GAME Join the Special Forces, and dive into a whole new world of fresh hidden object puzzles, brutal crimes and exciting criminal scenes. Use your keen eye and quick wit to solve a new crime every 2 weeks.