About the Game
A puppy named Teddy, found dead under mysterious circumstances. Master Reed, vanished in a bustling temple fair crowd. Years of grudges festering at the Shipwreck Wharf. Scattered newspapers and handwritten notes in an unknown prison... Traverse the eclectic districts of Dark Tide City and investigate a string of bizarre cases.
Recover the city's lost memories. Piece together the truth behind the city's fracture ten years ago. Kill. Judge. Or perhaps… kiss(?) the mastermind.
It pairs 3D HD environments with 2D pixel characters, creating a striking modern-vs-retro visual style, and offers a wide range of freely explorable locations across distinct districts, including the rusting steel jungle of a long-shuttered factory, the muddy Shipwreck Wharf built on stilts, the floating slum of the Pig Cage Walled City where Chinese tradition and neon lights bleed into one another, and the bustling, crowded streets of the Old Town District.
Freely choose how to improve your abilities: Strength, Spirit, Charm. Pick your own approach to each case: Play mind games? Grease some palms? Or just beat a confession out of the suspect?
Deduction System: Gather, analyze, and connect the clues. Craft your own unique investigation trail!
Meet the people of Dark Tide City and uncover the stories behind their masks... whether it's the sanctimonious Captain Theo, the fiery young Axel Flint (son of Griff Flint), the defiant Rafe Carter, the cheerful shutterbug Kiki, the elegant Mrs. Reed, the rumored hex-casting Priestess, the warm-hearted fishmonger Auntie Bass, or the foul-mouthed little rascal Chiffon.
The Shadow: A strange creature clinging to your back. It reads memories and reconstructs the traces of the dead.
"Don't worry, Lucas. We're just using each other. You use me to find the killer, and me? I love nothing more than feasting on the bizarre tales. Hahaha—!"
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
This update fixes the random crashes that have troubled some of you for a long time. Details below.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that could cause random crashes: an older version of the Unity render pipeline contains a bug that leads to heap corruption. The code path triggering this bug has now been disabled.
Investigation Notes
The crash reports we received showed no consistent trigger, and the logs were hard to pin down, so the investigation took quite a while. We eventually confirmed that an older version of the Unity render pipeline contains a bug causing heap corruption. With this type of issue, the point where the corruption occurs is usually not where the crash happens, which is why it took so long to track down.
After disabling the affected code, the game has been running stably for over two days with zero crashes. We hope this was the root cause for most of you, and that your game stops crashing for good.
If you still run into crashes after this update, please keep reporting them in the community, ideally with the time of the crash and what you were doing at that moment, so we can continue investigating.
Thanks to everyone who reported the issue, and thank you for your patience.
New Features & Adjustments
- The Old Machinist at Pig Cage Walled City now offers additional part-time work. Wendell Forge and the bar at Shipwreck Wharf now offer part-time jobs as well.
- Improved the animation of the Firefly Gang's ship in the trial scene and added a ripple particle effect.
- In the grand finale, if you previously chose to become Rafe's dad, a new conversation will now play when you talk with Rafe's mom on the bridge at Pig Cage Walled City.
- Gamepad sprinting now uses stick-magnitude hysteresis: push past the threshold to run, drop below it to walk, preventing repeated switching at the boundary. Removed the Y button sprint binding.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where an empty dialogue option could appear when obtaining Ethan's photo after stealing the ticket at Shipwreck Wharf.
- Fixed an issue where the still-held B button could skip dialogue right after exiting the Deduction interface with a controller.
- Corrected the translation of the counting-based work option at the Pig Cage Walled City dock, and restored some translations that had been overwritten.
- Added localization support for the new part-time job dialogues and ending dialogues.
New Features & Adjustments
- Ethan's achievement now unlocks as soon as you view the photo.
- Removed the behavior where the mouse automatically moved to a specific position when dialogue options opened.
- Adjusted the color of a clue's question in the Master Reed disappearance case to simplify the deduction.
- Improved the save export feature.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the F5/F6 quick save icons not displaying.
- Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck in the ground during the secret room Rewind.
- Fixed an issue where delivering flyers at the Supermarket in Pig Cage Walled City did not pay out.
- Fixed a crash in the water system.
- Fixed several typos in the Chinese text.
New Features & Adjustments
- Added Quick Save (F5) / Quick Load (F6) with button hints and a styled hint font.
- Adjusted the drag speed of the 3D clue search interface and added a drag speed setting.
- Added cassette tape models and items at the Factory, including playable songs by The Gentle Rogues.
- Rewind now has a sensitivity setting, A/D keyboard controls, and a reminder to press Q to Rewind.
- The part-time job can now be completed with quick repeated clicks instead of watching a long dialogue.
- After drinking, you can no longer obtain the Fisherman's Wharf Owner's drinking invitation through the part-time job.
- You can now feed Lucky at the Factory! What things you can feed him is up to you to discover.
- Corrected Mrs. Reed's age in the interrogation record to 20.
- Added a save export feature to the title screen.
- Added English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean translations for the easter egg dialogue with Shawn at the Factory that plays after equipping the Sanren skin.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the first-frame flicker in Rewind dialogues.
- Removed the fade-out of the Rewind interface operation hint text.
- Fixed the dialogue behaving abnormally after kicking away the ladder of the kid who keeps the TV signal at Shipwreck Wharf.
- Fixed the radio near the trash can not being lit by the light ball.
- Fixed an incorrect Japanese translation of the official title year at Master Rochester's pawnshop, which could softlock the password sequence.
- Fixed an issue where Max in Pig Cage Walled City could no longer continue the dialogue after being hit.
- Fixed an issue where dialogue text playback speed changed abnormally.
- Fixed the two sensitivity options in the investigation section of the settings screen overflowing their text box in English.
- Fixed the restore default settings restoring incorrect values.
- The game now prioritizes launching with DX11 to help resolve crash issues.
New Features & Adjustments
- Added a patch so that completing a certain notebook now forcibly triggers some related animations, regardless of save data.
- After finishing Lily's storyline, you can now sit and chat with the Fisherman's Wharf Owner directly — no need to do the part-time job first to unlock the dialogue.
- Adjusted the dialogue of the vendor at the shop on the second floor of Reed Mansion.
- Added button hints to Master Rochester's Rewind when entering the County Office for the second time.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck when looking into the distance from the right side of the Factory's second floor at the start of the game.
- Fixed an issue where a flowerbed on the second floor of Reed Mansion was missing its base model.
- Fixed overexposure issues with some background scenery at Shipwreck Wharf, and filled in the large hole at the spot where the kid hides his money near the start of the game.
- [Very rare] Fixed an issue where Max's cage in Pig Cage Walled City would occasionally fail to drop its key.
- Fixed an issue where loading a save during a dialogue with autosave could restore certain already-activated mechanisms in the scene (e.g., the elevator gate at Reed Mansion and Mrs. Reed's door — objects that could no longer be passed).
- [Temporary fix] Added the clue "The Firefly Gang's Activities" to the small starting cell in the Prison, as it was previously unobtainable anywhere.
New Features & Adjustments
- Increased the maximum number of books gifted by Shawn and improved the attribute bonuses provided by them.
- Reduced the price of the Intermediate Fishing Rod to make fishing more accessible.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where a wall near Kiki's bridge in Pig Cage Walled City could block the player's view.
- Fixed an issue where the fisherman NPC in Pig Cage Walled City could be exploited to gain unlimited money.
- Fixed an issue where, after opening the deduction interface with the controller RB button, players could no longer use RB to cycle through all UI Menu screens.
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Uploaded Aug 06, 2026
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