THE CASE OF THE LAST SHAWARMA
The last shawarma in town is gone. The owner is destroyed. The police have "real crimes". You work for seeds, and you just took the case.
It has been raining for three days. Or the city is crying. Hard to say — you're a detective, not a weatherman.
The last shawarma in town is gone. The owner is destroyed. The police have "real crimes". You work for seeds, and you just took the case.
A noir told in black, grey, and a single colour of gold.
What you do
Interrogate impossible witnesses. A pigeon who sells the truth by the seed ("the coo — that's the VAT"). A vending machine that has stood in the underpass for eleven years and answers only in products. A femme fatale who wandered in from a more expensive movie.
Spend seeds, not money. In this city the whole economy — even justice — runs on sunflower seeds. Every question costs. Haggle if you dare.
Read the evidence. Examine crumpled foil under a magnifier, crack a four-digit order archive, finish a femme fatale's lines before the pause becomes an answer.
Reach the truth you were avoiding. Multiple endings. One of them you will not like — because a man doesn't remember what he didn't pay for.
Features
A dense, hand-written noir-comedy script — every line played straight.
Five little cases-within-the-case: foil analysis, haggling, the order archive, a duel of lines, and the detective's notebook.
Branching investigation with several endings and a case file that remembers your best run.
Fully bilingual — English and Russian, switchable any time, with adjustable text speed.
Adaptive picture: resize the window freely or go fullscreen — no black bars, ever.
100% drawn in code — not a single sprite. Rain, neon, wet asphalt and smoke, all procedural.
Short and dense. A case you can close in one rainy evening.
Justice was done — and it tasted of onions.
