Crime Code

About

Crime Code casts you as a rookie detective figuring out murders in a 1970s cyberpunk city where everyone is connected to a central network. Solve cases by scouring crime scenes for clues, interrogating witnesses, and cross-referencing info from newspapers, internet archives, and suspect interviews. Assign tasks to officers, hack servers using social engineering, and choose from aggressive or diplomatic dialogue options to crack confessions. Each investigation branches into ethical gray areas like bending rules to catch killers or negotiating with armed criminals. Set in a retrofitted New Chicago where the city’s neural network influences every investigation, the story weaves political intrigue with personal betrayals. Players navigate a web of suspects including mayor candidates and tech moguls while managing limited resources and shifting alliances. With 85% of players on Steam noting the narrative depth and 72% praising the dialogue complexity, the game thrives on its tangled mysteries and consequences that ripple beyond each case.

Storyline

The story unfolds in an alternative New Chicago of the 1970s, in the first Internet city, where all the services, facilities and the lives of the citizens are now fully functioning as part of a global network. Thus he who controls the network controls of the whole city. A cynical ambitious young detective arrives in New Chicago in the thick of the Mayor election race, and the tension is just going to mount: one of the candidates, who is also the network creator, is killed. This is the first move in a bloody game where the whole city is at state.