Fox Detective vs Special Squad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fox Detective
Step into the shoes of a renowned detective to solve a murder mystery in a secluded mansion. Uncover clues and unravel the truth behind your legendary reputation in this illustrated, anime-style adventure.
- Investigate a murder mystery
- Explore a mansion
- Find clues
- Illustrated anime style
- Original story and characters
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Take the role of a legendary detective to investigate a mysterious murder at a mansion in the woods. A fully original mystery game with an illustrated anime style story and characters. Explore the house, find the clues, and discover the real reason why they call you the Fox!
Special Squad
Engage in a story-driven detective role-playing game where you assist a secret agent in solving complex murder cases. Solve tricky puzzles, find clues, and bring criminals to justice in this challenging escape room experience.
- Investigate murder cases
- Point and click room escape gameplay
- Story-driven narrative
- Examine clues and analyze evidence
- Solve logical puzzles
- Mini-game puzzles and achievements
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This season, engage in mysteries of crime cases in the city, in one of the best role-playing point and click type room-escape game in a story-driven narrative and it's developed and released by HFG Hidden Fun Games. Are you ready to solve the criminal cases? GAME STORY Special Squad – Crime Mysteries is a detective story. Mr. Ervin is the lead secret agent in a special squad. The government appointed top five unidentifiable cases to Mr. Ervin. You are an assistant to him. The reason for the death of sprinter, rescuing the agent, murder of a female victim, untraceable case of Managing Director and reveal the reason for the death of your colleague. The game is totally in the latest form of room escape game and filled with tricky challenging puzzles. Lot's of thrilling twist throughout this full journey. During this journey, you have to find clues and suspect through your detective skills. Escape games are fully filled with crime and investigation stories and having many thrilling rooms waiting to escape. But they are easy to play and give more challenge to you. Various location waiting for your investigation. Try to find out the hidden clues, solve some puzzles, unlock a few rooms through your intelligence. If you are searching a best investigation based escape game then this one is the right choice. Are you ready to face the challenge of escape and solving the mysteries? GAME FEATURES *101 Brain Challenging Levels *More than 250 logical puzzles to challenge. *Gameplay consists of more than 30 Hours *Examine clues & analyze evidence *Bring the killer to justice. *Challenge yourself with mini-game puzzles and achievements to earn extra Hint.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fox Detective at none against Special Squad's 10. Fox Detective also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (75% vs 63%). Special Squad's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Special Squad sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Fox Detective asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fox Detective holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 39 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Fox Detective's written reviews are positive against 63% of Special Squad's.
Fox Detective ships an update every 7 months, Special Squad every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Fox Detective | Special Squad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (26 ratings) — better | 4.6 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.8 GB | 778 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Paul Femiak | HFG ENTERTAINMENTS |
Customer experience
Fox Detective
Special Squad
In-app purchases
Fox Detective
No in-app purchases
Special Squad
- Get 10 Hints$0.99
- Double Your Reward Video$0.99
- Get 22 Hints$1.99
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- Remove All Ads$1.99
- Get 33 Hints$2.99
- Get 50 Hints from offer$3.99
- Get 60 Hints$4.99
- Get 130 Hints$9.99
- Get 155 hints and adsfree$9.99
- Get 300 Hints$19.99
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