Lamplight City

Lamplight City is a steampunk-ish detective adventure from Francisco Gonzalez, creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight. New Bretagne, the City of Air and Light, is the thriving port-city gateway to Vespuccia and a beacon of 19th-century industrial advancement. Beneath the shining future lies poverty, class struggle, and crime, and that is where private investigator Miles Fordham operates.

Miles' former police partner speaks to him constantly from beyond the grave, slowly loosening his grip on sanity. Five cases unfold across four boroughs, each with multiple suspects, false leads, and different outcomes. You can be the detective you want to be (follow the law or make your own rules), but how you act affects people's attitudes toward you in later cases. Critically, you never get stuck: if a case becomes unsolvable, you move on, and the story adapts.

A single-click interface with no inventory drives the casework. Clues and documents go straight into your casebook for review. The four boroughs each have their own unique flavor, exploring class divide and public fear of emerging steam tech, with influences from Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens. Over 50 professionally voiced characters and an original score by Mark Benis.