Last updated on November 29th, 2025 at 08:29 pm
Criminal Case: Pacific Bay – Adventure Game Review
Criminal Case: Pacific Bay is a Adventure/Puzzle game from Pretty Simple, first launched in 15th February 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 6,804+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Criminal Case: Pacific Bay Stand Out
Join the Police of Pacific Bay to solve a series of murder cases in this captivating hidden object, adventure game. Investigate crime scenes for clues, bring the suspects in for questioning and analyze evidence to catch the killers. Are you ready to prove your detective skills?
FEATURES:
• Investigate crime scenes and discover the dark side of paradise
• Examine clues and analyze samples to look for evidence
• Interrogate witnesses and suspects
• Bring the killer to justice
• Works on iPhone 4 and above and on all iPads
• iPod Touch 4th generation devices are currently not supported
PLEASE NOTE – Criminal Case: Pacific Bay is completely free to play, however some game items can also be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings.
Under our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, you must be at least 13 years old to play or download Criminal Case: Pacific Bay.
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This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Criminal Case: Pacific Bay is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th August 2025
Recent improvements include:
This update includes routine maintenance to help keep the app running properly with latest system updates and on latest devices.
Download & Availability
Criminal Case: Pacific Bay is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Criminal Case: Pacific Bay on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Ive loved this game forever its absolutely great but when u run out of energy and have to spam ads for a bit if you wanna keep playing or you just wait for autopsies your entire life, still reccomend it tho youll learn to live w it :3.
We play the original, Pacific Bay, and supernatural and love all three! We get up in the morning, play them in order and then we go on about our day. Its relaxing and it clears our mind. Highly recommend these games.
We love to play this game when Im bored or need to get distracted it makes us feel like Im an actual officer in the game this game is amazing with unexpected twists.
This game is a lot of fun and easy to do.
We play this game and the regular. Both are fun.
Keeps you engaged through every story.
Im still playing but so far this as good as the original Criminal Case, with the same style of game play. We had to laugh though when one episode features a Jewish deli selling pork! Somebody didnt do their research on that one.
The game is fun and Ive played through all of the first game years ago. Our only problem is that the game has a lot of features mostly exclusive to Facebook and knowing a lot of people that play. We just wish it had an option for better solo play now that the community has mostly died.
The advertisements are to frequent and repetitive. If we see a game Id like to try we cant because the ad prohibits it.
Why am we having to wait 24 hours to go on to the next case? Do the developers not want people to play their game? Ive tried to connect to Facebook but it is broken.
Recently we have the impression that the number of ads has increase to a level that takes the enjoyment away from the game Dont waste your time.
Our character from the original Criminal Case didnt transfer on this game, there should be an option where we can still use our pets or other items from the original game.
We love the criminal case games, its a big reason as to why we are going into criminal Justice in college. This game is awesome. The only problem we have is that the energy gifts you collect in the mail box will just disappear sometimes. We will have 99+ and they will just all go away. Otherwise its perfect.
Ive always like this one, started from day one.. Frank is an awesome character too.
Love these criminal case games. The play is fun. The stories are cute, but placing ads between gameplay is a bummer its fine to use ads for bonuses and all of that but its a bit greedy to put an advert between almost every search scene other than that we love it.
Love the game just hate we cant log our progress. We lose everything when we switch our phone.
We loved this game, started playing while playing original criminal case, built up money, a pet and several levels only to get to the end of the original and it looks like we have to delete pacific bay and start over. Boo and no thank you. Will move on to another game. Disappointing to say the least. Otherwise, would have been much higher in stars.
After latest update, the app keeps crashing. Is there going to be any updates? Still cant open the app, did everything but uninstall the app. Any help.
App keeps crashing. Please provide new update for older iOS devices like the other criminal case apps.
We are unable to stop playing this game since we are addicted to this game. We are very much disappointed with this game because frequently it is closing automatically. Will you please restore. This game is fabulous. Also we request to send lot of similar games. We like to play more suchlike games.
We recommend this game to anyone we talk to, even our grandpa.
We had it logged into Facebook,been playing on it with our friend on fb, took a break went to play again said log into Facebook we tried said app not activated we tried everything still get same message a week later still there on our settings on Facebook said and showed pacific bay is active so whats the problem.
Very good game! Keeps us entertained when Im bored. Good job designers.
Such perfect graphics, crime, and hidden objects! Simply beyond amazing.
We LOVE this game! Its one of our favorite criminal cases.
Love the game but there needs to be more areas to investigate. Give us more games.
We love all the criminal case games the only suggestion Id make is that when you move up a rank and get your energy refilled that you dont lose the energy you already have. Ive lost as high as 110 energy points just to get 110 points refilled. We have no other complaints.
Pretty impressive so far. We will see.
We actually enjoy it although the curse is a little graphic maybe add a sensor so that some people dont have to see it but beside that good game.
We cant stop playing these games we love them so much and we love the characters on every game please dont stop making games they are fantastic.
Even tho Im playing for our daughter She love this stuff. She actually wants to be a detective. We never seen that one coming. Exactly what Engaged player said 4 years ago. Im not into the fine details of a crime scene. Definitely more danger suspense and gun fire, car crashes & explosions Or better yet definitely closer looks into REAL Nation wide crime scenes would be awesome Im more of a Dirty Harry type guys. We do like csi Las Vegas Miami and NY ok we like them all. Like the Beltway sniper outside of DC OR The 2020 riots that would be a great start!!! How we started to loose our law as our own government in stepping on our own constitution Get to see more of these games in the future Maybe less time getting stars And more finding the killer Back when we were a kid There was ZERO ads during a game The only time that happened was when a car was coming down the road in the middle of a hockey game. So GAME ON.
BEST.GAME.EVER. We SWEAR IT IS, ITS SO FUN AND we LOVE HOW CHALLENGING SOME PARTS ARE. BUT we ABSOLUTELY HATE HOW LONG THE LABORATORY PARTS ARE :( BUT OVERALL THIS GAME IS AMAZING AND SO IS CRIMINAL CASE.
Love this gamejust one issue .Im getting ripped off with filling up the sticker book. Will get. 7 stickers when we flip them,but only 5 or 6 show up in our book. FIX THAT ISSUE AND IT WOULD BE SO MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE. We REFUSE TO BUY ANY DUE TO AFRAID OF BEING RIPPED OFFNOT ME WHEN IM BUYING.
Since we played from the original criminal case game.
Very fun and extremely addicting game!!! We love crime shows and this game makes us feel as though Im a forensic detective.
Love the game but the last few days it wont connect to Facebook on iPad and get error message stating its a know error or something. Please fix it.
Love all the criminal case games. Im just so sick of the ads. We would pay to get rid of them. Other than that a great game. The ads are the only reason we stopped playing. They ruin the volume of the game as well.
We love this game its very addictive it has very well put together and thought out cases, but the waiting time between the autopsies, and everything is too long for some you have to wait a whole day or pay money to go to the next part of the case. The wait time should realistically start off at 30 minutes then escalate to 3 to 5 hours. Eight hours, 24 hours are just too long and people will start losing interest in the game. How do than that this game is a very fun game and we would recommend it.
Love, love , love this game. Only gave a 4 star rating because, some of the lab times are waaaaaay to long! Seriously, 30+ hours is totally ridiculous! Also, when we level up, we should get ALL 110 of our energy points, no matter how many we already ha e banked.
Ive played this game since it first came out and we love it! How ever recently we found out that the game logged us out and we cant log back in through Facebook and the only other way is through apple and it it made us restart! How can we fix this? Ive tried everything from deleting it and then reinstalling it on our phone, logging out of Facebook and logging back in again and even shutting down our phone. Im frustrated with it. Please help.
We love everything about this game, it was made so well and the storylines are great. However we think its ridiculous the amount of time you have to wait for evidence to come back. We cant even play the game for 9 more hours because we have to wait for a polaroid camera to be analyzed. Unless we pay 3 dollars which im sorry but nobody is going to do. We understand having to wait a while for results but theres no reason it needs to be 9 hours.
When Ive had our fill of the other games on our phone, Ill come to this one, pick up where we left off. Its not super challenging, and passes the time. However, the dialogue is remedial and we find the use of slang overdone, to say the least. They could add a few more options for setting your characters skin tone. But still, its a decent game.
Way too many ads on this fun app. In addition they want nine dollars, yes nine dollars to get rid of apps. Usually $3.99 or $4.99 is asked to get rid of apps. Which we might be willing to pay since this game is a long game. But $8.99 is Ludicrous.
This is definitely not our favorite Criminal Case game. We liked the characters but it really wasnt enough. The end was so dumb. We did finish the entire game before we made our opinion.
Ive loved Criminal Case for years, and after awhile we decided to pick it up again only to be disappointed by the buggy app. Whenever an ad plays it disrupts our in game music and then suddenly the game audio completely turns off? Not to mention the amount of ads is extremely excessive, at this point we would pay to get rid of them. As for flaws within the game itself, having to wait 10 or 12 hours for evidence is a major problem. We love this game and we want to finish cases quickly, but this long wait time makes us less inclined too. Long waiting times just make people more impatient and more likely to forget about the game in general, so bad move on that part. We think the max amount of hours should be 8, though thats still pushing it, but at least youll be able to finish within a day.
We LOVE all your games, however an ad after EVERY scene is RIDICULOUS!!! We understand the concept and agree, BUT its TOO MUCH.
This used to be our favorite game but ever since the latest update, it seems like there is nothing but ads every time you try to do anything. We understand for getting extra lightening and stuff like that but it seems like its every time you get done with a crime scene and beyond. We dont want to but probably gonna delete it.
We found by staying connected or signing in by Facebook it added ads that we did not want when we already paid for them not to be. But after we signed out of Facebook and went and went through our Apple app we had no more problems. So if anyones having issues its Facebook, they are the greedy ones.
Ive played other games in this series for years & Im disappointed with this one. The characters are cheesy & stereotypes. The clues at the crime scenes are much smaller than in the other games & the graphics arent as sharp. All the years Ive been playing, Ive never finished 3rd in a crime scene,most of the time 1st. Its very frustrating not to be able to even make out what the clues are. Very disappointed with Pacific Bay.
We used to love this game but now when we reinstalled it Facebook wont let us login, we did tooo many to replay it all. PLEASE fix the Facebook problem. Love you if you do, thanks.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.44
- Size: 129.14 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Pretty Simple
Last updated: 28th August 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Puzzle | Developer: Pretty Simple