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Browser mystery

The only browser mystery where she wins every case because people underestimate her.

A 2D illustrated detective game set in San Francisco, made for women 35 and over who love a good mystery. Its heroine is in her forties.

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Isometric sculpture of a San Francisco hillside street: a row of Victorian houses, a cable car on its tracks and a magnifying glass, in grainy orange-to-violet gradient blocks (generated art)

A mystery that fits in a browser tab

Play a drawn detective story. A 2D illustrated detective RPG, and its heroine is a woman in her forties.

Open it, don’t install it. It runs in the browser, with no download.

Take each case on its own. Every case is a self-contained mystery, and each can be solved in several ways.

One scene, the way the game is drawn

This is a sample: concept art and a line of sample dialogue. Three self-contained cases are free at launch.

  • Case 01Self-contained
  • Case 02Self-contained
  • Case 03Self-contained
Illustrated scene: a San Francisco hillside street at dusk, a woman in a trench coat carrying a casserole dish walks past a doorman, with a cable car and the bay behind (generated sample art)

Sample dialogue

The doorman waves her through without a glance. Nobody asks what is in the dish.

How a case goes

  1. Step 1: Open the case

    Load it in your browser. There is no download, and each case is a self-contained mystery.

    Illustrated sample character: a bored young doorman in a cap (generated art)
    Suspect
    Illustrated sample character: the heroine, a woman in her forties with auburn hair and a camel trench coat (generated art)
    The detective
    Illustrated sample character: a smug man in a grey three-piece suit (generated art)
    Suspect

    Sample art

  2. Step 2: Let them underestimate her

    People underestimate a woman in her forties. That is how she wins every case.

    Illustrated sample character: a smug man in a grey three-piece suit (generated art)
    Underestimates
    Illustrated sample character: the heroine, a woman in her forties (generated art)
    Wins

    Sample art

  3. Step 3: Solve it your way

    Every case can be solved in several ways. Take the route that suits you.

    Sample art

Dotted globe showing the west coast of North America, with a thin orange arc landing on San Francisco (generated art)

Free at launch, with no checkout

  • Three cases, all free

    At launch, all three cases are free to play.

    • Case 01
    • Case 02
    • Case 03

  • No checkout

    There is nothing to buy. The cases are here to find out whether players want more.

    • In the browser
    • No download

  • One email, at the end

    At the end of case 03, the player can leave her email to hear when the full game ships.

They looked past her. Case closed.

Three illustrated mysteries, in your browser, free at launch.

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