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No Case Should Remain Unsolved

Each of the 54 pieces of testimony is accompanied by a pixel-art image: some offer hints to the speaker’s identity, while one is used to resolve a lingering question. Others are more expressive, revealing emotions or states of mind

Human memory isn’t linear, nor is it reliable. Events in our past fragment and sometimes H merge in our minds; we might recall fine details even as the broader strokes blur or fade. This text-based detective game from Korean developer Somi asks you to accept one contrivance – that retired inspector Jeon Gyeong can recall conversational exchanges to the letter, but not when they were spoken, nor by whom – to brilliantly evoke that sensation of straining to create order from hippocampal chaos.

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