Vaudeville
Detective adventure built around questioning suspects with AI-generated dialogue
Bumblebee Studios · Released Nov 28, 2025
- Reviews
- Mixed
- 48% of 297
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Last update on Steam
- 1 week ago
- Oct 18, 2026
What is Vaudeville?
Vaudeville is a single-player detective adventure set in a European city, where private investigator Detective Martini investigates three murders. You explore locations including a circus, a manor, and woodland, collect clues, and question residents by typing or speaking into a microphone.
For you if...
- +you like noir mysteries driven by extensive conversation
Not for you if...
- −you prefer preset dialogue choices over open-ended questioning
What players say
48% of 297 reviews are positive
Players praise the freedom to experiment with AI characters in conversation. They criticize invented leads, contradictory answers, and dialogue loops, while recent reviews also report characters becoming unresponsive and blocking progress.
Screenshots and trailer
Vaudeville system requirements
Minimum: GTX 1050, 16 GB RAM, 15 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Vaudeville?
Tell us your graphics card once and every game page will answer this for you.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 and Windows 11
- Processor
- Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5
- Graphics
- Nvidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX550
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 15 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 and Windows 11
- Processor
- Intel Core i7 2.8GHz / AMD Ryzen 7
- Graphics
- Nvidia RTX 2070 / AMD 6600
- Memory
- 32 GB RAM
- Storage
- 30 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
Does Vaudeville have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Vaudeville run on Steam Deck?
Verified Yes, Verified by Valve: it works on Steam Deck out of the box.
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Shows Steam Deck controller icons
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux
- Achievements
- 12
- Steam features
- Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Full audio: English.
Does Vaudeville use AI-generated content?
Yes. The developers disclose AI-generated content on the game's Steam page:
This game includes dialogues generated with the help of a conversational AI and may not be appropriate for all audiences.
The statement mentions: AI active during playText & translations
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Sandbox
- Detective
- Exploration
- Interactive Fiction
- Noir
- Artificial Intelligence
- Experimental
- Crime
- Dialogue Heavy
- Singleplayer
- Moddable
- Mystery
- First-Person
- Investigation
- Procedural Generation
- Level Editor
Recent updates
- Jan 22, 2026 · New Performance & Stability Update [1.3.0]
- Aug 21, 2023 · Update 0.11.3 (INTERRUPT SPEECH)
- Aug 18, 2023 · 0.11.2 Timeout fix
- Aug 16, 2023 · Language stability patch
- Jul 9, 2023 · The Notebook Update (0.9.14 Early Access)