Scrutinized
Detective horror game about sorting reports while intruders stalk your home
Reflect Studios · Released Aug 5, 2020
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 89% of 1,392
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 4
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 11 months ago
- Oct 19, 2025
What is Scrutinized?
In this single-player detective horror game, you play Luna Youngman, a criminal analyst investigating threats in a suburban town from her home. Across ten nights, you examine digital reports, messages, and phone records to classify people as threats or not, while checking windows and lights to keep intruders out.
For you if...
- +you enjoy piecing together clues from digital records
- +you like tense multitasking between investigations and home security
- +you want a mode focused only on detective work
Not for you if...
- −you dislike timed phone puzzles, even in detective mode
- −you dislike restarting after a failed survival run
What players say
89% of 1,392 reviews are positive
Players praise the variety and detail of the case files. Common complaints focus on unforgiving survival difficulty and tight phone-cracking timers; some players also find the evidence requirements unclear.
Screenshots and trailer
Scrutinized system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- 2.4 GHz or Better
- Graphics
- Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 or equivalent
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Notes
- Game is optimized in 1080p, GPU must have 3 GB VRam
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 22
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Tags
- Simulation
- Horror
- Detective
- Survival
- Hacking
- 3D
- Dark
- Singleplayer
- Indie
- Perma Death
- Difficult
- Survival Horror
- Psychological Horror
- Female Protagonist
Recent updates
- Oct 19, 2025 · Patch 1.2.0 Now Live!
- Jul 10, 2025 · Patch 1.2.0 Testers needed
- Aug 15, 2020 · Patch 1.1.2 - The Giga Nerf
- Aug 11, 2020 · Patch 1.1.1
- Aug 9, 2020 · Patch 1.1.0 - Detective Mode
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