The City Knows

A story-driven deduction game set in Okayama, Japan, where everyone has an answer—but you need evidence. Examine evidence and records, cross-reference witness accounts, reconstruct timelines, and separate plausible theories from provable facts across six murder investigations.

The social platform already has an answer everyone believes. As detective Seiji Takase, return to the facts and turn a persuasive theory into evidence that can be recorded, challenged, and reviewed.

Walk into Hokancho after midnight and examine the scene, the time, and the objects left behind. Fix what you can actually see before you allow yourself to infer.

A clerk, a mechanic, a street-food vendor, and a sanitation worker each notice what others miss. No one has the whole answer, but any of them may hold the piece that matters.

A clever explanation can persuade the entire city and still fail a police file. Separate facts from inference—and inference from imagination.

Photograph an angle, mark a sightline, and turn spatial relationships into a diagram someone else can verify. You decide what becomes evidence.

A single statement can contain an observation, a professional judgment, and an unsupported guess. Pull them apart and keep only what can carry the burden of proof.

Arrange photographs, diagrams, statements, and the timeline until every item supports the next. You are not submitting a satisfying answer—you are building a defensible record.