Dark Auction

Dark Auction is a mystery adventure set in Europe in 1981. Eighteen-year-old Noah Crawford travels to an old castle to find his father, Leonard, who has gone to an auction and failed to return. Trapped there with the other guests, Noah accepts the Auctioneer’s invitation to take part in the event.

The castle and its secrets

You explore the 3D castle, search its rooms and floors, and speak with the other auction participants. Their accounts reveal trauma and lies, offering clues to the truths they keep hidden. Information you uncover is recorded in the Word Cloud System, which you use to reason through mysteries during each auction.

Bidding with memories

The auction’s exhibits are bid on with memories rather than money. Participants use EPO, a device that reconstructs memories, to offer their bids. Secrets and trauma can distort memories, making them incomplete or incorrect; incomplete memories cause bids to fail.

Noah supports each target by correcting their memories before the auction. A successful bid reveals the truth behind its ill-fated exhibit and advances the story.

Noah’s search

Noah is haunted by the memory of his mother abandoning him when he was a child. He lives with Leonard, a failed writer who is obsessed with collecting items related to “Dictator X.” Despite their financial struggles and Noah’s protests, Leonard will not give up the collection.

When an invitation to the castle auction arrives addressed to Leonard, he leaves despite Noah’s objections, promising to explain everything when he returns. After Leonard fails to come home and Noah has no way to contact him, Noah goes to the castle to bring his father back—and witnesses something shocking.

The participants

The characters include Noah Crawford, Leonard Crawford, Edgar Schultz, Christoph Treheim von Berg, Otto Klein, Karla Becker, Lorraine Klopp, Hell and the Auctioneer.