Wizard Confidential

Wizard Confidential is a 207,000-word interactive urban fantasy noir novel set in Seattle in 1927. You play a private eye and wizard whose choices shape the story; the game is entirely text-based, with no graphics or sound effects. You can play as a male, female or nonbinary character, and as gay, straight or bi.

Cases in Seattle

Bootleggers run speedboats over the border to supply speakeasies and jazz clubs, gangs fight in dark alleys, and crooked cops work alongside werewolves, vampires and wizards. Your cases include investigating an out-of-town union leader for City Hall and helping the Dry Squad track a notorious bootlegging gang before the Feds move in. You also search for your missing partner and investigate a rogue wizard who appears whenever something major happens. The city's future is at stake, and you must discover who the wizard is, what he wants and what he knows.

Your choices

You can solve cases with your brains, fists, charm, magic or detective work. Your magic can control the elements, create illusions or divine the future. You can build your detective agency into the biggest in town, if you can save your partner.

Your choices also shape your place in the city's conflicts. You can bring a labor organizer's message to the people as a champion of the working class, or bust the unions and ally yourself with the city's elite. You can trade bullets and wisecracks with Seattle's gangs, break up a bootlegging ring or stay above the fray. You can also romance a jazz singer with a secretive family, a charismatic union organizer or a smooth-talking City Hall staffer, and ultimately face a dangerous wizard for the fate of the city.