Inquiry Counsel

Inquiry Counsel is a single-player detective narrative set in Lin’an during China’s Northern Song Dynasty. You play a government-licensed Inquiry Counsel, investigating unsolved cases in bustling marketplaces and the martial arts underworld, then confronting suspects in court through reasoning and debate.

Investigate the cases

The cases draw on the Song Dynasty judicial system and include poisonings, locked-room murders and framing. In courtroom confrontations, you look for contradictions in testimony and present evidence. Your arguments can decide life or death.

Characters and presentation

Character portraits combine gongbi-style composition with anime color palettes, and their expressions change dynamically during interrogations. Classical music and ambient sound effects accompany the scenes, and every line of dialogue is voice-acted to match the mood.