Detective Worden

Detective Worden is a word puzzle game for Windows and macOS, made by Domestic Black Cat and published by Studio Amateur on Steam in October 2025. You play the private detective Raymond Worden at a desk covered in case files, photos, witness records and a green typewriter. Each puzzle is a case log: a hidden English word you type on the typewriter, with seven tries and Wordle's letter colours telling you which letters are in the word and which are in the right place.

There are three modes. Story Mode follows one murder case set in 1985, where the evidence on the desk hints at the word and each solved word opens the next clue. Free Mode lets you set the word length, difficulty, number of tries and a time limit, as many times as you like. The Daily Challenge gives one new puzzle a day that every player gets, and ranks players on logic and speed on the Steam leaderboards.

The typewriter has a blue key that clears the letters you have ruled out and a red key that submits a guess. The game keeps statistics and a history of past answers. Its menus come in ten languages, but the words are English, so it suits players at home in English.

It suits Wordle players who want a desk, a case and a leaderboard around their guesses. Players who expect a full detective game should know the story sits beside the word puzzles rather than driving them.