Crime Scenes vs Special Squad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crime Scenes
Become a detective leader and solve mysteries in a crime-ridden city. Explore dangerous locations, find hidden objects, and gather clues to expose criminals. Utilize your detective skills and bonuses to progress through challenging investigations.
- Hidden object gameplay
- Investigate crimes
- Find clues
- Expose criminals
- Explore dangerous locations
- Progress through locations
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The Crime Scenes: Hidden Unknown is an exciting Hidden object game. Insecure city populated with the gangsters and swindlers is in hand of A Group of the crime investigations. You have to become a leader of A Group and try to puzzle tens of mysteries; to get over the difficulties and expose the criminals. You have the full detective’s armory and good bonuses. Features: - It is a FREE Game! - Explore the rooms in Hidden object mode; find hidden items in the different dangerous places - Investigate tens of crimes, find clues - Take the criminal - Amazing graphics, suitable interface - Progress in the locations
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 rating: Special Squad at 4.6 against Crime Scenes's 3.1. Special Squad also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 28%). Crime Scenes's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Crime Scenes sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Special Squad sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Special Squad holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 39 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Crime Scenes's written reviews are positive against 63% of Special Squad's.
Crime Scenes ships an update every 3 weeks, Special Squad every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crime Scenes | Special Squad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (27 ratings) | 4.6 (39 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 378 MB | 778 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | JoyBits Co Ltd. | HFG ENTERTAINMENTS |
Customer experience
Crime Scenes
Special Squad
Bugs and requests
Crime Scenes
Reported bugs
16 issues- Items not registering when tapped
- Game crashes frequently
- Loading screens freeze or take too long
- Energy not refilling
- No sound or music
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- New cases/missions stop appearing
- In-app purchases not downloading
- Game freezes or goes black
- Dialogue is misspelled or inaccurately punctuated
- Some locations do not load
- Achievements not being awarded
- Exchange issues causing crashes
- Pool area inoperative
- Game not loading after updates
- Items not selectable after being clicked
- Game Center not recognized
Requested features
10 requests- Add new cases/missions
- Fix bugs and glitches
- Improve item registration
- Add sound/music
- Fix energy refill issue
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- Improve translation
- Add new game modes
- Make in-app purchases more affordable
- Add more investigations for higher levels
- Fix unresponsive taps
Special Squad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Crime Scenes
- 52 real money2 variants$1.99
- 12600 gold money$1.99
- 30 real money$4.99
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- 210 real money2 variants$4.99
- 520 real money2 variants$9.99
- 1250 real money2 variants$19.99
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 150 Hints from offer$9.99
- Get 155 hints and adsfree$9.99
- Get 175 hints$9.99
- Get 300 Hints$19.99
Questions
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