CASE FILE 000 · THE BRIEF
Every city hides a thread. Most people walk past it. We build games for the ones who don’t.
DelictZent makes narrative crime and detective mysteries with a European noir sensibility — procedural detail, quiet dread, and characters who carry the weight of what they uncover. No hand-holding. No tidy answers until you’ve earned them.
The name comes from the law.
A delict is a wrongful act: the offense at the heart of every investigation.
The Zent is how we approach it — composed, methodical, patient. The chaos of a crime, and the calm discipline of piecing it back together.
CASE BOARD · LIVE STATUS
No open cases. Not yet.
DelictZent publishes nothing until it holds together — every clue placed, every alibi tested, every lie accounted for. When the first case opens, it opens here, and this board fills in.
STATUS: 0 OPEN · 0 CLOSED · BOARD EMPTY
ELSA — DRAFT dossier:
The one who remembers. Rooms, dates, the exact wording of a lie — Elsa keeps what other people drop.
HA-YUN — DRAFT dossier:
Follows the money. Ledgers, payouts, the quiet arithmetic of guilt — Ha-yun reads numbers like statements.
KALISHA — DRAFT dossier:
Walks in without a badge and leaves with the truth. Kalisha works the street, not the file.
PHOEBE — DRAFT dossier:
Hears the pause between words. Phoebe interviews silence, and silence usually talks.