Inspector Schmidt: A Bavarian Tale (2023) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Inspector Schmidt: A Bavarian Tale

"Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale" is a third-person detective RPG, set in rural Bavaria in 1866. As the young Medical student Valentin Schmidt you will travel to Wolpertshofen in order to write a report of…

76 2 February 2023

What Inspector Schmidt: A Bavarian Tale is

Inspector Schmidt: A Bavarian Tale is an adventure game developed by Active Fungus Studios and released in 2023. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Right before his eyes, the picturesque, pastoral village turns into a world full of dark secrets, inexplicable events, social tensions and a hostile hush of a village that seems to hate nothing more than a stranger poking around in other peoples’ business.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are educational, historical, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Inspector Schmidt: A Bavarian Tale 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 2023 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Inspector Schmidt: A Bavarian Tale launched on 2 February 2023, within three weeks of Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Dead Space and Metroid Prime Remastered. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered.

Cheats and codes

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