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Dark Math Games · Published by Dark Math Games · Official site ↗
Content notice: The game contains instances of substance abuse and exploration of crime scenes.
Last updated 30 Sept 2026
Welcome, detective, to World’s End’s most luxurious hotel: the Tangerine Antarctic at Mt. Hope. The ultimate comfort for the powerful elites past, present and future. No desire is off-limits, privacy is absolute and nothing is certain. Except: you shouldn't be here. And the murders are very real.
Adventure, RPG · More free games
Unravel mysteries and navigate the opulent yet perilous Tangerine Antarctic in this thrilling adventure RPG from Dark Math Games.
About this game
You’re a Patrol Op on a holiday weekend at World’s End Ski Resort, Mt. Hope, Antarctica. But things are about to go sideways.
Now you’re stranded at the off-season resort with unforgettable guests, wild parties, and mad secrets. The world of Tangerine Antarctic is your oyster—crack it open with evolved role-playing systems.
Features
Deep single-player role-playing with seismic choices. Powerful, finely tuned, innovative. It’s yours to decide how your story unfolds—and how it ends. Follow your truths or just slide on the surface of things. A fresh role-playing system that respects your time, trusts your intelligence, and plays along with your every choice. Play a true three-dimensional human being. Combine 20 Traces across four categories to shape your character in any way you desire.
Unique Companion Dynamic: A unique companion dynamic provides you with many paths to solve the crimes. Engage in social climbing, soul digging, heart-eating, and more, depending on your choices and luck.
Innovative Musical Gameplay: Choices, substances, and experiences affect how you hear and feel the world.
Dopamine Buffet: Rehearse your moves. Dance through crime scenes. Drift through parties. Or find pleasure in completing the simplest chores. Get better with every action you take.
Marafet Computer: Use Marafet calculations to alter your time and space. Go deep with insights and discover connections, but make sure you’ll be able to resurface.
Original Sci-Fi Setting: The detective RPG Tangerine Antarctic lands you in a luxury resort that shouldn’t exist, with people you shouldn’t know. In the endless polar night, amidst the orgies of politics, power, and poetry, something gruesome lies waiting.
In 2086 CE, things really can’t go much further south than World’s End, Antarctica. Have fun.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 10
- Processor: i5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 4GB
- Storage: 15 GB available space
- VR Support: N/A
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
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Giving you more of this luxurious freedom, detective.
Tangerine Antarctic - Isometric prototype. Imperial Bedroom. Thanks a ton for the great question. I’ll try to give you an idea why we switched from isometric view to 3rd person. While doing my utmost to avoid any spoilers. Tangerine Antarctic is a living world. While you’re stranded in this off-season hotel, things keep happening non-stop. Dead bodies are found. Parties and afterparties abound. People and objects disappear. While the gym is still open and the spa hides some incredible guests. This is not a static place where you are just sent to do the post-mortem. No. Stuff happens. Your actions matter. And making a true detective’s RPG is all about giving you more of this luxurious freedom, detective. To solve the murders, to live your best life, or simply save the future. Tangerine Antarctic - Isometric prototype. Imperial Bedroom.First we had a whole dynamic and branching crime story mapped out with a very wide brush. And at the same time we started designing and producing the first underground level of the Tangerine Antarctic hotel. Designing the gameplay. Populating this Imperial Bedroom and other locations with characters. Writing the dialogues. Testing the role-playing systems. This is where the game begins. Tangerine Antarctic - Isometric prototype. Imperial Bedroom.We never wanted to create a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium or, Stalin forbid, some imaginary Disco Elysium 2. Nor did we want to simply polish the formula, to deliver you Disco Elysium 1.2 – once again with a huge painted world map. You know what I mean. Tangerine Antarctic - Isometric prototype. We wanted to make the game some of us wished to be making when we were tied down delivering Disco Elysium and the Final Cut. A true detective’s RPG that gives you a fresh and fun role-playing system while respecting your time. A game that you wish was longer. Not shorter.Tangerine Antarctic - Isometric prototype. Bonsai Nursery.My baseline is that we’re making a player-first RPG. Isometric perspec...Read full article on Community Announcements (chris)AnnouncementsOfficial
Meet the writer. Still SFW.
Tangerine Antarctic – a player-first true detective RPG with a branching story, where your choices are everything.Our community manager asked one of the writers for a devblog post. This is the completely honest and accurate report he got in reply. I’m not forwarding any fucking memes. The buck stops here. I open the calendar, see a meeting that has fuck-all to do with me, and start pestering someone on WhatsApp to send me the link. Which they do, with a vaguely upbeat hesitance. The sliding camera cover on my laptop is half open, exposing a quarter of my greasy hair. I close it for a second but then uncover it again. “Nice of you to join us,” says someone. “We were just discussing…” and they go on explaining whatever the fuck they were discussing. I nod approvingly, bless the meeting with a cross gesture like a priest, and leave. Caffeine. I cook a cup of double espresso with my moka pot, using Red Bull instead of water. Great stuff, gets me pumped up for my shift. I log on to Jira and proceed to move random tickets from Not Started to In Progress to In Review to Finished. This is how work gets done, bitches, 34 hours worth of tickets solved in one minute. All the apps are blinking with memes, 317 in total. Not forwarding any of them. Not a single fucking one. I am the motherfucking last stand — the Three Gorges Dam. In this life you can be an asshole or a simp, and good guys finish last. Moving the tickets is the easiest hustle ever, so yeah, no empathy for losers moaning about crunch time. I finish a few more tickets. It’s almost half past noon, so I should get dressed if I want to retain my morning-person credentials. I consider intellectual honesty to be very important.And here’s a photo from the Dark Math writers room.Wanna know more, detective? Mainline the making of Tangerine Antarctic in real time on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/e4EZbnBcbERead full article on Community Announcements (chris)AnnouncementsOfficial
How did you sleep, detective?
Your next favorite true detective RPG has a name: Tangerine Antarctic. And you’ll play it in full 3rd person perspective. All to make Tangerine Antarctic a player-first, deep, and unique role-playing experience.Our Art Director, Timo Albert, said it best: “Tangerine Antarctic is the name of the hotel you wake up in. Trapped there by a blizzard, you’ll dig through walls of snow and silence to solve a string of murders. And Tangerine Antarctic isn’t just a place. It’s one of the key characters in this true detective’s RPG.”Architectural concept art of Tangerine Antarctic, exterior viewThe Tangerine Antarctic hotel is designed by renowned architect Kaur Stöör, who brings his expertise in mountain architecture to Antarctica. We’ll show more of it soon. The place is mad even by the standards of 2086. It’s a refuge for the powerful, the secretive, and the plain strange. You should not be there. But what can you do? Murders don’t solve themselves. It takes a detective or two!Architectural concept art of Tangerine Antarctic, lobbyYou can bring your own unique detecting style to Tangerine Antarctic soon. Stay tuned.In the meantime, check out the Enguri Attractions in the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia; a project Stöör worked on with his colleagues at KOKO Architects: https://arhliit.ee/en/project/enguri-attractions/ Or dive into the rest of his impressive portfolio: https://arhliit.ee/en/author/lembit-kaur-stoor/And pre-orders are now open on Xsolla. Be the first on the crime scene. Order now.https://tangerine-antarctic.xsolla.site/Read full article on Community Announcements (chris)Press Coverage
Would-be Disco Elysium successor XXX Nightshift morphs from an isometric RPG into a third-person ski resort murder mystery
Dark Math Games, one of the multiple studios staffed by former Disco Elysium developers to pop up and announce a very Disco Elysiumy RPG last year, have given their game a revamp. XXX Nightshift is now called Tangerine Antarctic, with the switch also bringing a shift from isometric perspective to third-person. If you missed the recent flourishing of Disco spiritual successors created by ex-ZA/UMers, the others include Longdue's RPG Hopetown and Summer Eternal's mystery project. Meanwhile, Disco writer Robert Kurvitz and artist Aleksander Rostov are making something for a studio called Red Info, and ZA/UM themselves are working on a new CRPG called Zero Parades. It's all very easy to keep track of. Read moreRead full article on Rock, Paper, ShotgunAnnouncementsOfficial
DevBlog #5
In 1917, Lenin promised “Peace, Land, and Bread.” In 2051, Titanin confessed, “I have nothing to offer but blow, BJ’s, and cash.” Read on here: https://rb.gy/iuluxt {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45248106/ec7b442df2056ab705f7ce0d2ea701e3f9ae360e.pngRead full article on Community Announcements (chris)
