Celestial Return

Celestial Return is a choice-driven detective game set in Netherveil City, a dying city of neon streets, reanimated corpses and secrets that threaten your sanity. You play Detective Howard, who investigates a string of suicides with a rusted badge, a talking rose and stolen dice.

Investigate Netherveil

You explore the city, interrogate the dead, expose the corrupt and loot dice. Dice are a resource you need to stay alive: you earn, spend and lose them. Hoarding them makes opportunities disappear, while reckless rolls consume resources. There is no perfect build, and survival is uncertain.

Choices and character

Your choices shape your character, and your character affects the choices available to you. Intelligence can pick locks in silence, Virtue can plead for mercy, and Foolishness can laugh at the abyss. These character traits can clash, become corrupted and alter your path during conversations, with consequences for what you choose.

Art and music

The game uses a hand-shattered art style combining manga precision with the rawness of American comics. Its influences include Blame!, Biomega, Akira and Berserk. The soundtrack draws on noir jazz, cyberpunk techno and death metal.