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[hanako]

9 AM Monday morning. A report lands on your desk: Jeanette's monogrammed silver locket has gone missing. The last time she definitely remembers having it, she was walking in the Field with her friend Susan. Shifty hallmate Ashley had also been admiring the locket recently.

Imagine an RPG where instead of fighting monsters, you're fighting scandals. You're in charge of the Student Council of an elite all-girls boarding school, and you must send your minions to investigate crimes and protect your reputation by any means necessary.

Going to search the Field for Jeanette's locket? You'd better assign a minion with good Observation skills. 
Think that Ashley might be hiding it somewhere? Maybe you can assign someone good at Stealth to tail her. 
Want to scare information out of Susan? Send in someone with a good skill in Intimidation. 

Your minions each have their own skillset, which you can level up as you solve cases. You assign minions to tasks, along with bonus equipment to boost their stats. Then you compare those stats to the target, along with the luck of the magical d20:



The cases themselves are randomly generated per-playthrough, so you must rely on the skills of your minions in order to find the clues to proceed. Unfortunately, one of them is secretly a traitor... and that's where the real plot of the game comes in. You can interact with your minions in either a friendly or romantic way to build their loyalty and find out about the big conspiracies behind all of these little crimes.

So, to sum up: Lesbian schoolgirl noir secret police investigation RPG.

Game website with demos (PC / Mac / Linux) and trailer

[hanako]

We've released a free 1.1 update to the game, which adds a number of features. The most notable are:

A second art style, and the ability to switch back and forth between the two styles at will:



Which means, of course, that you now have twice the lesbians.



Also, a roguelike save-and-quit option, which makes a temporary save which will be automatically resumed the next time you play the game.

If you already own the game, you can download the 1.1 patch by going to Options, Updates, Check for Updates

If you don't, you can get the new 1.1 demo on the Black Closet Webpage

[hanako]

Released today on Steam!

Now includes unlockable custom play mode where you can turn your friends or favorite characters into minions and see how they fare as schoolgirl detectives. Will they give each other cookies, get into a huge fight, or be BFFs?

[gimymblert]

HOw did I miss that !

[harvicus]

What a cool concept for a game.  I wish you and your team a lot of success, we need more games like this that break the traditional mold.