Kaebon

Kaebon is a slow, thoughtful puzzle game about earning money for your mother’s surgery. You need 15,500 baht and have 13 nights to get it. An anonymous broker hires you to visit shrines for clients, make the offerings they promised and send back a photo to receive payment. The job comes with an old notebook belonging to the person who did it before you.

Read the evidence

You investigate still scenes, read documents and work out what happened. There is no free roaming or chase; the tension comes from finding the right answer before time runs out. Use an old camera to switch between photographs, zoom in, adjust brightness and compare traces with the present-day scene. You can also reassemble torn photographs and notebook pages to uncover clues.

Clients’ instructions may conflict with what you find. Examine each site and its old offerings, count the incense holes and compare your observations with the notebook to determine what the ritual needs and what it must not include.

Manage each night

Buy supplies within the client’s budget, arrange the offerings and choose how many incense sticks to light. Gathering extra clues and returning to the shop both cost time, so each night you decide when you have enough information to act.

Follow the stories

Successful work brings you closer to paying for your mother’s operation, while mistakes add to another kind of debt. Your room changes, letters arrive and dreams come as you uncover the stories of your clients, the broker and the notebook’s former owner. Your results and the debt you carry shape one of seven endings.

Key features

• 13 nights of deduction puzzles rooted in Thai vow-fulfilling rituals.
• Clues in documents, scenes and an old notebook.
• Offering and incense choices limited by budget and time.
• Letters, photographs and dreams that reveal the story piece by piece.
• Seven endings shaped by your results and the debt you carry.