A genealogical investigation game
A family erased from the registers. A desk, a lamp, and the whole autumn to give them back their names.
The premise
The Regency fell twenty years ago. A new law at last makes it possible to give “the absent” back their names.
Civil Re-registration Office
Letter of assignment · Aubrelieu, 7 October 1974
For fifteen years, the offices of the Regency struck thousands of citizens off the registers: with no civil status and no rights, they were called “the absent”.
You are a rapporteur at the Office. On your desk: an estate to investigate, an almost empty family tree and boxes of archives.
Rebuild the family, document by document, and understand what the papers erased.
The Director of the Office
Trailer
Video hosted on YouTube: nothing is loaded from YouTube until you press play.
The game
Rebuild
Some thirty slots to fill: given name, surname, face and occupation. Every name is earned document by document.
Dig
Letters, registers, press cuttings, directories, uncaptioned photographs: cross-reference them, highlight, pin.
Travel
An engraved, watercoloured map of the country: every place opens its archives, from the fishing port to the capital.
Query
The Office’s card cabinet: type a name, a place, a date, and pull out the drawer.
Establish
No lucky guesses: a branch is only stamped “Established” once all of it holds.
Deduce
No set order: you pull whichever thread you like. Several endings, depending on the secrets you bring to light.
The world
The Orvelle valley and its capital Aubrelieu, the fjords of Ostrie, the Golfe d’Ambre, the Monts Corvins. In the game, every place opens its own archives.
Open the interactive map
Drawn and engraved by CM Creative Lab.
The faces
Each one has a silhouette, an accessory, a colour. In a group photograph or on the back of a postcard, it’s up to you to find them again.
Screenshots
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