Shift Detective

James H. is a paranormal detective with an old bronze pocket watch. Use it to Shift into the inner world, where every witness tells you exactly what they saw. Not what they want you to believe, and never the whole picture, only what they saw from where they stood.

HOW IT WORKS

• In the real world, people dodge and lie.
• Shift with the watch and the world turns grim. Ghosts and residual thoughts appear, and people give you the plain truth.
• Every Shift and every inner-world question costs insanity. As it climbs, the two worlds blur together and violent ghosts come for you.
• Violent ghosts are faced with conversation, not reflexes. The right answer depends on what you have learned, so keep your Memo up to date.
• You have three hearts. They come back only from items and safe spots. If you die, you wake at your last checkpoint as if it were a hallucination, and some of what you learned slips away.

CONTROLS

Drag to look around. Click people, ghosts (inner world only), items and safe spots. Use the Memo and Rest buttons in the top bar.

STATUS

Early build: a prologue and one placeholder scene. More chapters to come.

Source code: https://github.com/LonelyBanana509/Shift-Detective