Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Shadow at Noon.

The Steam page went live today. The game comes out on December 3 at 10:00 UTC, on Windows and Mac, in English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

A quick word on what it is: a honkaku mystery told as an interactive sound novel. You read it page by page, with illustrations, music and ambient sound. There's no voice acting and there are no cutscenes. Every clue you need is in the text, and working out the answer is up to you.

It starts with a death on a staircase in the winter of 2015. The soup spilled on the steps is still warm, but the man has been dead for two or three hours. The next morning, the family's housekeeper comes in and confesses.

If you played my last game, OBSESSED: The Vanishing Witnesses, one thing first: this is a completely new game, and it plays nothing like it. There's no evidence board and no strings to connect. What you do here is read. You note down the words that matter as you go. In interrogations you go through the statement line by line, present evidence or turn back to a page you've already read, and point out which line is a lie.

Twelve chapters, about 6–8 hours for a first playthrough.

If it sounds like your kind of thing, I'd be grateful if you added it to your wishlist. Steam will let you know when it's out. I'll post a few more updates before then, on how the interrogations work and on why the main character is a police officer who works the family-registry window.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5441620/