Seven additional titles, Criminal Case: Pacific Bay, Criminal Case: Save the World!, Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past, Criminal Case: The Conspiracy, Criminal Case: Travel in Time, Criminal Case: Supernatural Investigations and Criminal Case: City of Romance were launched, the latter being the final game in the franchise. 2017 research by United Worldwide found that 80% of the active players are women aged between 30 and 55. Some reasons cited for the game's success include its graphic crime scenes and meaningful narratives. The game has a 40-percent share of Facebook users. By this time, the cases had been translated into nine languages, and they were making an eight digit sum of revenue. įive days later, Criminal Case won the Facebook Game of the Year 2013 award. We have writers and artists who just really work hard to put out this content.' On December 4, 2013, the game achieved over 100 million users. The developers explained in late 2013: 'To put out an investigation each week, there are almost 30 people working on it. Īs of mid-2013, Criminal Case attracted more than ten million monthly average users and became highly competitive with Candy Crush Saga, the most popular game on Facebook with over 46 million average monthly users at that time. Just two months after the games launched, it had one million daily active users. The murder investigation theme was chosen first by the developers, who decided to make the game in the hidden object genre due to it making both business and personal sense. Idenvest originally put up €300,000 in seed capital, which was followed by another €2.5 million after the game achieved a level of early modest success. Pretty Simple was founded in 2010 by partners Bastien Cazenave and Corentin Raux and was backed by Idinvest Partners. As of June 18, 2023, all the Criminal Case games are inaccessible on Facebook.

The game released its final case on January 21, 2021. On December 9, 2013, Criminal Case was crowned the Facebook Game of the Year 2013.

Developed and published by French indie studio Pretty Simple, Criminal Case has over ten million average monthly users. In 2018, the Facebook version was converted from Adobe Flash to HTML5.

An iOS version was released worldwide on August 28, 2014, followed by an Android version on April 15, 2015. Criminal Case is a detective-themed hidden object game released on Novemfor Facebook.