Delicious – Mansion Mystery Review

A great time management title with a crime mystery made by Gamehouse & SQRT3. It takes around 15h to complete and has no missable achievements.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: 15h
Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: Yes, replaying 25 levels is a bit grindy. However, it is easily done on level 1 after finishing the rest.
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No, you can play on the easiest difficulty and still unlock all the achievements
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

Delicious – Mansion Mystery is another great GameHouse/SQRT3 game. They know how to make fun time management games in which you complete orders for different people. In Mansion Mystery you’re playing as Emily. She and her best friend Francois will help host a party for a family who lives in a mansion. However, a lot is going on in this family and you’ll get snippets of all the drama trying to solve a murder attempt.

This game has 90 levels, 15 levels in each different area. Which felt like a lot to me, sometimes a little too much. This might also be due because I didn’t connect with the story as well as with other GameHouse titles. There was a little bit too much eavesdropping and searching through other people’s stuff. I understand it is a game and they tell a story, but somehow it still made me feel a little uncomfortable with the methods Francois took while being “the good guy” who want to solve the crime. This is weird because there are other GameHouse titles where the crimes are worse but done by bad guys, which makes it feel a little better, which I can see for myself that it is crazy to feel that way.

What I did like about Delicious – Mansion Mystery is that the mini-games were cool and all very good doable with a mouse as well as on the Steam Deck. Another great improvement in later levels was that if you had to find objectives in a level as a side-mission it had a counter so you know for how many more of them you were looking. The absolute best thing for me was that this game didn’t end on a cliffhanger but had a proper ending which leaves room for future installments but didn’t drop you into another adventure straight away. And last but not least, you don’t need any prior info on the characters at all for this installment.

The achievement list is what you expect from this type of game: Complete all the levels with 3 stars, play the mini-games, complete all the side objectives, find the mouse in each level. What is nice is that in the in-game menu, you can see how far you’re with the achievements, as they all have counters. And in the level select you can easily spot in which level you didn’t find the mouse, didn’t get 3 stars, or didn’t do the side mission.

I give Delicious – Mansion Mystery 3.5 out of 5 stars.

This review for Delicious – Mansion Mystery was written on 2 August 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 91 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.