Venice After Dark

Venice After Dark is a point-and-click adventure and visual novel set in a mysterious crime story. You explore a complex version of Venice through the eyes of Aiko, an introverted programmer, and Thea, a quirky, highly capable AI. As you solve puzzles and make moral decisions, reality and dreams, and the past and present, begin to blur around questions of what it means to be human.

Investigate Venice

During the day, you travel around the city, talk to its inhabitants, collect items and solve puzzles to gather information. At night, you tackle auditory tasks and optical illusions. The challenges focus on attention, interpretation and perception rather than speed: you may need to inspect detailed backgrounds for objects or hidden passages, talk to Venetians for clues, hack an elevator, investigate secret locations or piece together evidence. Some puzzles use sensory ideas based on real scientific experiments, while others involve humorous dialogue.

Meet the inhabitants

Venice is filled with unusual characters, each with motivations and backstories. Encounters and conversations can bring surprises: some people help Aiko, while others may manipulate her or have worse intentions. Thea stays by Aiko’s side. Hand-drawn characters and detailed animations give the conversations a range of expressions, and all dialogue is voiced by professional actors.

A changing city

The story features real places in Venice, alongside real historical figures and events. Its detailed backgrounds depict alleys, landmarks and secret locations, while dynamically animated characters and objects bring the city to life. The weather and time of day change the city’s appearance, from sunny days and beautiful evenings to dark nights and heavy storms; familiar places can feel different as the story unfolds.

Story and endings

Your decisions in the story determine which of three different endings you reach.