An intelligence service
They like the way you watch a room. They’d like to know what you see in it, and who you tell.
“Nobody pays attention to a new face. That’s the point.”
Case 0001 · A text-based game
You step off the bus into Corwin City.
Fluorescent glare on a cavernous depot, a stray “Welcome home!” balloon against the rafters — and Main Street already watching.
The city runs on people who arrive exactly like you — with nothing, owing no one, useful to everyone. You build a life here one typed line at a time, and you find out what you’re willing to become to keep it.
Returning player? The same door — sign in.
File 0001-CC
Exhibit A
Corwin City · Street level
- Subject
- New arrival, one bag
- Point of entry
- Avermann Bus Depot
- Known associates
- None. Yet.
- Disposition
Exhibit B · Recorded arrival
Played in words. Every one of them written.
COMPLICIT is a text game: the city is described to you, and you answer by typing what you do. Every street, shop, stairwell and back room has been written by hand — and when typing isn’t the point, you can just tap the way forward.
- Clickable exits, a live street map, and a phone in your pocket.
- Locals who hear what you say and answer in their own voice.
- Nothing to install. Desktop or phone, in any modern browser.
Level 10 / 100 XP
Exhibit C · Standing offers
Give it a week. The city starts making offers.
Both of them are lying to you, and neither is the good guys.
A criminal outfit
They like that you don’t ask questions. The work is easy, the money is real, and the favors always come due.
“Carry this across town. Don’t open it.”
A life of your own
A name, a circle, a side of town. You don’t win here — you build something, and decide what it costs.
“Everyone in Corwin City is complicit in something.”
Exhibit D · Contents of the file
A whole city, one typed line at a time.
1,500+
Places on the map — avenues, shops, apartments, rooftops and the alleys between them.
Locals who listen
Residents hear the room and answer in character — remember you, refuse you, or tell you something.
Work & trouble
A chain of jobs that runs from the depot to the worst building in the city — and a fight, when you want one.
No download
It runs in the browser, phone included. Sign in, choose a character, step off the bus.
Case 0001 · Still open
The bus doesn’t wait.
Everyone in Corwin City is complicit in something. Give it time.