How do you exclude something from a web search again?

Get ready to flex all your knowledge of how Google search terms work withChinatown Detective Agency!

In case you could’t tell, I really like it.

A cartoony drawing of Horace The Endless Bear, in a Santa hat and snuggled by/atop a fireplace, regarding three Christmas stockings hung above it. Each contains something from a different game that came out this year

Chinatown Detective Agency knows it exists in the glistening, connected future, and just lets you Google stuff.

Thing is, this feels like genuine research a lot of the time.

CDA can I call you CDA?

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slots neatly in amongst them, like a Wordle on the third go.

It feels like glimpsing a possible future.

What a lovely, heartwarming recommendation at Christmastime, eh?

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On the flip side, you do get to travel and see the world while you’re working.

The easiest way to summarise CDA is Carmen Sandiego 2037, but that obscures its depths.

Looking for something to occupy your noggin?

A side-by-side comparison of China Town Detective Agency before and after changes to the lighting design

I know a little business in Singapore that’d be glad to have you aboard.

Just keep your nose clean.

Alice Bee:I want to add a couple of points to everything CJ has raised here.

the first is that Chinatown Detective agency looks and sounds fantastic.

The different pixelated backdrops, meanwhile, are gorgeous, and cities look different during day or night.

It’s a detail I appreciated.