Of all the detective offices in all the world, she had to walk into yours. A missing husband.Late nights, suspicions of infidelity, booze on his breath and something herbal underneath it. A black-and-white photo, and a promise made by one deadbeat to the wife of another: you’ll track the missing man down, one way or another.

Backbone’s is a distinct shade of noir, one that pays its dues to Raymond Chandler in its opening act but isn’t content to sit within traditional confines for the duration of its story, instead opting to freewheel through genres and themes with reckless abandon in its latter stages. The same goes for developer EggNut’s approach to interactivity: this is an adventure puzzler with precious few puzzles, giving way to a more minimalistic approach to mechanics as time goes on. It’s also a linear tale that wants you to consider the other paths – blowing an interrogation, perhaps, and selling out friends – even if they don’t transpire to have been a real option in retrospect. Like any good private investigator, it’s a bit of a maverick.