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Overlyunderqualified · Published by Overlyunderqualified · Official site ↗
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Adventure, Indie, Simulation · More free games
Explore the dark alleys of a fictional 90s Chinese town as Detective Chen, piecing together clues from unreliable witnesses to solve twisted homicides. Rebuild faces from fragmented memories and delve into a gripping adventure that blurs reality with fiction.
About this game
Three years into wallowing in self-pity over your wife's violent death, desperately trying to escape a grief that rots your soul. You accept a call to return to Gui Dou's Public Security Bureau as a detective to help solve the over abundance of homicide crimes that plagues the small city. Figured that maybe some of these cases can help you figure out the truth behind the mysterious death of your wife. With each case lies a mystery where you have to talk, compare, doubt, and redraw until the picture matches reality.
RECONSTRUCT THE SUSPECT
Turn conflicting memories into a concrete target. Put your artistic skills to the test by sketching suspects based on the chaotic, shifting descriptions from the witnesses and onlookers. You must decide which facial features are genuine and which are born from fear, obsession, or deliberate deception.
ORGANIZE & CONNECT THE EVIDENCE
A messy crime scene requires a structured mind. Take control of the investigation by utilizing a deduction table to map out the crime. Physically drag, sort, recovered documents and hard forensic clues. Draw direct connections between them to piece together the sequence of events.
CROSS-EXAMINE TESTIMONIES
Lies always leave a trail behind, waiting to be exposed. Highlight contradictions and spot crucial details witnesses conveniently left out. Cross-examine these discrepancies to break through false alibis and force the real story to the come out
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10 or above
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
Supported Languages
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From Game Jam to Steam: Reworking Linework! 🔎
Hello Lineworkers!With SEA Game Fest officially kicking off, we realized it was the perfect time to finally break our silence and give you an update. First off, thank you so much to everyone who has wishlisted the game and followed our progress, your early support means the world to us!! Before we look forward, we wanted to take a quick look back. As some of you might know, Linework originally started as a prototype for the Gameseed 2025 competition. Taking home 1st place in the Student category back then gave us the massive push we needed to commit to turning our jam project into a Steam release. It has been an incredible journey since those early game jam days, but evolving a short jam build into a rich, detective story meant we couldn't just rely on our original mechanics.As we’ve been testing and developing, we realized that some of our initial jam mechanics weren’t quite scaling up to the experience we want to deliver. To truly capture the immersive mystery we envisioned, we decided to rethink our core systems from the ground up.Today, we are excited to announce that a massive overhaul is currently underway and it’s almost done! What to ExpectEvidence Rework We are completely re-evaluating how documents contain clues and how you used it. Examining evidence will feel much more immersive and satisfying.Visual & UI Polish We're refining our art and rebuilding the interface to be much cleaner and more intuitive.Deeper Narrative We want the story and the gameplay to feel completely seamless, ensuring the world reacts more naturally to your investigations.Brand New Deduction Mechanics We are building entirely a new system that lets you physically connect the dots and piece together the case yourself! It is a lot of work, but the new foundation is already playing so much better, and we are thrilled with the direction it's heading. Stay Tuned!Since this overhaul changes so much of the game, we aren't quite ready to pull the curtain back on a full gameplay trailer just ...Read full article on Community Announcements (levium)
