Tessera: Noir Detective

Chipode

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About this game

Three years ago Mara Voss fell down a stairwell; she was badly hurt and gave up her badge. What she has left is Tessera: an experimental memory implant that plays back the last few minutes of any place she stands in.

Now she takes the cases the police can't close. A founder found dead in a locked office. A judge locked in a house at forty degrees. A car in a ditch on a blind curve in the rain. A fan stabbed in his seat at the very moment thirty-one thousand witnesses were watching the goal. Every case is a complete mystery, and one story runs through them all.

HOW TESSERA PLAYS

Search the scene
Comb hand-drawn locations for what doesn't belong: a door log that doesn't add up, a mug in the wrong place, footprints on black ice. Every clue goes into your notebook.

Question the witnesses
Everyone has a version. Press them on the details, present what you found, and catch the line that doesn't fit. Some questions only open with the right evidence.

Replay the last minutes
Stand where it happened and let Tessera play back what the room saw. It shows you more than anyone will say. But careful: Tessera can't be used in court, so what you see still has to be proved another way.

Name the killer, then prove it
Put the clues together, then name the killer and prove it step by step: when, how and why. Your grade depends on how well you argue it.

AT YOUR SIDE

Inspector Tomas Reyes, the one person in Homicide who still trusts you. Forensic pathologist Dr. Imani Okafor, who knows the time of death before you do. Desk sergeant Dev Malhotra, who answers the phone and finds every record. And in every case, at least one person who is lying.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Seasons of five cases, each with its own story and ending, and new ones as the story unfolds
• Silent Notification, Blind Curve, Turnstile, Black Ice, The Bucket, The Seal and more
• The first two seasons (10 cases) are completely free
• Each later season is a one-time purchase: no ads, no energy, no timers, no subscription
• Pure story: no time pressure or reflexes needed; stop any time and pick up where you left off
• Hand-drawn noir art and a soundscape of rain, harbours and empty rooms
• No account, no data collected: your progress syncs through your own iCloud or Google backup
• Plays offline
• English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French and Italian

FOR FANS OF

Detective fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie and film noir; story-rich puzzle and mystery games; anyone who likes to gather the clues and solve it in their own head.

New seasons follow as the story unfolds.

What’s new

• Two new seasons: Season 5, "Corroboration" (cases 21–25), and Season 6, "The Writer" (cases 26–30).
• New mechanics: your frames must be backed by a record, a Replay can cost a memory, and some frames in your notebook may have been written for you.
• Watch the ending of any solved case again from Case files.
• Clues and conversations read to their last line now always count as read.