Highlights:
* Indian Ocean’s Nikhil Rao and Masala Games’ Founder & CEO, Shalin Shodhan, have collaborated to compose the OST of Detective Dotson.
* Masala Games’ upcoming cozy mystery adventure captures the vibe of ’90s urban and semi-urban India with a twist of Bollywood.
Indie gaming studio Masala Games has dropped a ‘dev diary’ video around its upcoming cozy mystery-adventure Detective Dotson, revealing an all-new collaboration. The studio has joined hands with Nikhil Rao, lead guitarist of the music band ‘Indian Ocean,’ to compose the original soundtrack for the game. In the five-minute and 22-second video, Rao is seen talking about the OST, his collab with Shalin Shodhan, the inspirations behind the compositions, and a lot more.
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For the uninitiated, Detective Dotson’s soundtrack features 10 original songs that are a “fusion of rock and classical Hindustani genres.” Apart from answering the songs, Rao revealed the theme of Detective Dotson, on which he and Shalin worked together. During the video, he revealed the era of ’90s urban and semi-urban India as well as FRIENDS, Seinfeld, Family Guy, South Park, and other shows that impacted pop culture as the influences behind the game’s story.
A Bollywood-Inspired Cozy Mystery-Adventure: What Is Detective Dotson About?
Detective Dotson is a cozy adventure game that draws inspiration from Bollywood and Indian culture and presents the players with story-driven gameplay. One can explore the streets of the virtual world that boasts the aesthetic appeal of real Indian cities. The game lets players assume the character of a titular detective who aspires to be a Bollywood star. At the same time, other characters and disguises are also available.
In the game, players can build cases, collect clues, solve mysteries, parkour through the streets, and do much more. The pixelated graphic style further makes the overall experience more nostalgic. In addition to the single-player gameplay, Masala Games recently introduced the co-op feature, allowing players to join their friends in duos and solve cases.
The co-op mode will allow players to equip characters with different abilities and multiple disguises (like single-player), experience the game in split-screen, and share special moments. Interestingly, the game is a three-episode animated series featuring many characters. Players can wishlist the game on Steam, while devs aim for a Q4 launch on PC and Xbox Series X/S.
