Carmen Sandiego
The scarlet super thief Carmen Sandiego is back! Adorn Carmen’s signature red hat and play as the vigilante herself to navigate a world of espionage, utilizing high-tech gadgets, and ultimately capturing VILE…
Carmen Sandiego is an adventure developed by Gameloft, released 28 January 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Carmen Sandiego is
Carmen Sandiego is an adventure game developed by Gameloft and released in 2025. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The scarlet super thief Carmen Sandiego is back! Adorn Carmen’s signature red hat and play as the vigilante herself to navigate a world of espionage, utilizing high-tech gadgets, and ultimately capturing VILE. Rookie gumshoes and seasoned detectives are invited to put their sleuthing skills to the test whether it’s in the narrative driven main campaign or the classic mode ‘The Acme Files’.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are educational and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Carmen Sandiego series
Carmen Sandiego is the 33rd of 36 entries we hold in the Carmen Sandiego series. It arrived 4 years after Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. The next entry was Carmen Sandiego: Deluxe Edition in 2025. Its critic score of 76 is 4 points above the series average of 72. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Carmen Sandiego holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Carmen Sandiego launched on 28 January 2025, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Sid Meier's Civilization VII, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Carmen Sandiego yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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