Chicken Police - Paint it RED!

Chicken Police - Paint it RED! is a narrative-driven film-noir adventure built around two former detective partners — Sonny Featherland, semi-alcoholic and on paid leave, and Marty MacChicken, still hiding behind the facade of a star detective — who haven't spoken to each other since their last case nearly killed them both. They're forced to reunite for a case that turns out to be weirder and wilder than anything they've ever encountered.

The setting is the city of Clawville, originally built as an Edenic place where predators and prey could live in peace — and now the darkest corner of all the Wilderness. The visual style blends real photos of human models with photo-realistic 3D backgrounds, all transformed into anthropomorphic animals through a deliberately uncanny art direction inspired by classic film noir movies (The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, Gilda), Grim Fandango, Policenauts, L.A. Noire and animated work like Porco Rosso, Fantastic Mr. Fox and BoJack Horseman.

Gameplay combines visual-novel storytelling with classic point-and-click adventure mechanics. Over thirty characters need to be talked to, and many require serious interrogation — collect clues, evidence and sensitive personal information from the shady cast of Clawville and use it ruthlessly against them. Over thirty locations can be visited, with several changing across the story, giving the game a real sense of a city you can return to and re-investigate.

The production values are striking. More than eight hours of professional voice acting from the studio behind The Wolf Among Us, Horizon Zero Dawn and Vermintide 2 cover every line of dialogue. Over twenty cinematic cutscenes carry the noir tone. An original musical score backs the atmosphere. The whole project commits to its inspirations carefully, building a small but unforgettable detective story that lands as both satire and homage.