The Outer Frame
Dual role as detective and fixer, commanding the perfect cover-up from your desk. Intercept calls, stay ahead of the media, gather intel, and decide the fate of everyone involved before the masses catch on. Try again and again to reshape the narrative in this choice-driven mystery. Or you are fired.
“It's 4 AM. Nobody really knows what happened. And it's your job to keep it that way. From behind your desk.”
The Outer Frame is a choice-driven mystery where you double role as detective and fixer. Command the perfect cover-up, and get rid of the truth before the public catches on. Or get fired.
You will get fired. But who hasn’t lost a job before?
It’s about information. Your notebook is your inventory. Names, locations, codes, phone numbers, every piece of intel you find gets written on your notebook. Use it to fill action plans, database search bars, wiretap phone lines, and enhance your crazy board to get "ideas", and send the orders to your field agets that'll shape the fate of everyone and everything involved.
The game is about gaining intel, and using it to your advantage against the clock. You decide how.
Features
100+ findable keywords to use!
Efficiency vs. moral dilemmas
Pneumatic Tubes!
Time manipulation mechanics! (at least one!)