SEOUL, South Korea — Indie studio BANJIHAGAMES, creator of the text-based survival hit Seoul 2033, today announced Cold Case, a keyword-driven detective game about digital forensics, coming to Steam for Windows and macOS in 2027.
Overnight, a prosecutor burned to death at home — along with the old case files stored there. As an investigator in Cold Case, the unit responsible for preserving records of past crimes, you must recover eight case files pulled from the ashes and piece together what really happened.
Every photograph and document at the scene has been charred black. Your forensic toolkit can bring them back if you know what to look for. Search a damaged file for a keyword, and every fragment containing that word is restored. Each recovered line points to the next keyword, pulling you deeper into the case until the record and the truth is 100% complete. There are no multiple-choice prompts here: the deductions are yours.
Key Features:
- Keyword forensics: restore charred documents by searching for the right words; every recovered fragment is a new lead
- Eight standalone cold cases: each with its own crime scene, suspects, and buried truth
- Real deduction, not branching choices: the game never hands you options; what you search is what you solve
- Reconstruct the sequence of events: from crime-scene photos, witness statements, and recovered records
- Atmospheric pixel-art crime scenes: that bring decades-old cases vividly back to life
- Localized in five languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese
About BANJIHAGAMES
BANJIHAGAMES is a Seoul-based indie studio that started in 2016 in a semi-basement apartment the “banjiha” of its name under the motto “better to fail with something original than succeed with a copy.” The studio is best known for Seoul 2033, a text-based post-apocalyptic adventure recognized at Google Play’s Indie Games Festival 2019, along with a string of original mobile hits.
