For a beagle that’s been around since ration books were still a thing, Snoopy remains annoyingly charming. Snoopy & the Great Mystery Club brings Charles Schulz’s timeless mutt to the PS5, offering gentle detective work, quaint suburban drama, and more adorableness than the NHS recommends in one sitting. It’s a game aimed at children, yes – but if you’ve had a stressful day and fancy solving crimes involving missing footballs instead of tax fraud, this might just be the tonic.
Gaming Heaven
The game looks delightful, as if the Peanuts gang wandered straight off a picture book and into your telly. Every character – from Charlie Brown’s eternal melancholy to Lucy’s thinly-veiled rage – is faithfully recreated in 3D with a surprising amount of charm. The voice acting is genuinely good, and the open-world neighbourhood, while small, feels cosy and welcoming. The variety of costumes for Snoopy – detective, pirate, gardener – add both function and personality, and there’s a calm, easy flow to everything. For younger players (and stressed adults pretending to be “testing it for their kids”), it’s oddly soothing.
Gaming Hell
Of course, not everything’s pawsome. The mysteries themselves are light even by Blue Peter standards – think “find the missing sandwich” rather than “solve the Zodiac killings.” The gameplay loop of fetch quests and clue-hunting can start to feel repetitive, and the framerate occasionally dips like Snoopy after a long nap. Older players may find themselves yearning for something slightly more complex, like Sudoku.
Final Judgement
Snoopy & the Great Mystery Club is wholesome, simple, and quietly delightful. It won’t challenge your reflexes or your intellect, but it’ll absolutely warm your cynical heart. It’s the gaming equivalent of a Sunday afternoon nap – utterly unnecessary, but deeply satisfying all the same.
