Catal Carta

Catal Carta is a narrative deduction game about five childhood friends who investigate small scandals in the provincial town where they grew up. They gather at a fading secondhand bookshop and use books as their only evidence, looking for support from books in different fields to challenge the stories people tell about themselves.

Investigate the cases

During Investigation, you assign each of the five friends to gather information. Who you send where affects how a case unfolds, so you need to consider each friend's chemistry with the people involved. The game has 15 cases, each lasting about 5–10 minutes, with different combinations of clues to uncover.

Confront the suspects

Once you have the clues, you use what the books have taught you to choose your words and break through a suspect's defenses. The aim is not to corner them, but to reach the real reason behind their story. Across the short cases, the five leads, the world of books and the townspeople's lives gradually come into view.

Books and difficulty

The game includes 60 books across 14 shelves and 21 suspects. It has Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty levels; on Hard, the predicted outcome is hidden, leaving you to rely on instinct and experience.