Set the Record Straight
A 1998-set deduction game. Trawl a period internet for documents, photographs, and dead ends, then correct the official record, from who really wrote a song to whether a murder verdict should stand. An anthology of records set straight, one careful search at a time.
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A 1998-set deduction game. Trawl a period internet for documents, photographs, and dead ends, then correct the official record, from who really wrote a song to whether a murder verdict should stand. An anthology of records set straight, one careful search at a time.
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About This Game
It's 1998, and the record is wrong.
The official record lies: a front, a pen name, a studio figurehead, a borrowed name, and a murder verdict a county weekly has treated as settled since 1983. You're the researcher who sets it straight.Armed with a period search engine and a desk full of webpages, Usenet posts, zines, liner notes, letters, court papers, and clippings, you work an anthology of self-contained cases. Read first. Then correct the record, one proven entry at a time.
No twitch. No fail state. Just documents, photographs, and deduction.
Each case asks in its own way
The early cases hand you a master credit sheet in three parts: who was credited, what really happened, and who really did the work.The fourth case is longer, and different. A county weekly is preparing five pages on a fifteen-year-old murder conviction, and every line must stand on a document. You file the lines. The paper sets them.
How it plays
- Trawl a hand-built 1998 web: webpages, Usenet, zines, clippings, liner notes, and court records, all cross-referenced.
- No guessing your way through: corrections confirm only in batches, and a failed check never says which entry fell short.
- Name the faces: track down the photographs, then work out who is who.
- Documents by post: in the fourth case, the offices release their files to the paper as your sheet fills.
- An anthology: self-contained cases, each in its own era and field, with more planned through Early Access.
Set the Record Straight is a work of fiction. All characters, places, bands, songs, films, comics, stage works, studios, companies, publications, and court cases in this game are invented for its puzzles. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, to real works, or to real organizations is coincidental and not intended as a statement of fact.
