Private Eye - The Complete Series

Dec Bones is a private eye, and he is a ghost.

His face is black smoke under an old hat. Bullets go straight through him, and so do walls, until the city starts building them out of something he can't get through.

This page has the whole series. Five cases in Dyrein, from a mining town twelve years back to a new city that's eating the old one.

PLAY ONE RIGHT NOW

Private Eye: Ghost plays here in your browser. It's the prequel: one act, about half an hour, and Slashed's song is in it.

It's the only one that runs in the browser, because the other four are too big for itch's browser player. They're the downloads below, for Windows and Linux. Same detective and the same city, but each one is its own case and its own game, not the same one again.

THE FIVE CASES, IN STORY ORDER

1. Private Eye: Ghost - Drill Town, twelve years before. Dec, his best friend Slashed, and a cop who ran his own operation under the badge. About half an hour.

2. Private Eye: Prologue - the Laughing Fit. Ten villains, and they don't hide. About forty minutes.

3. Private Eye - the team forms around Dec, whether he wants one or not. About three hours twenty at my pace, closer to four and a half if you read everything.

4. Private Eye: The Syndicate - four people in good suits buying the city a house at a time. 84 chapters and 10 side cases, about three hours.

5. Private Eye: TechRein - the new city Dec can't walk through. 77 chapters and 10 side cases, about three hours if you read everything.

New here? Start with the Prologue. It's short, and it's where I started. Ghost works first, last or anywhere in between.

HOW IT PLAYS

You collect what you find as clues. When someone lies to you, you put the clue in front of them that proves it, and their story cracks.

Searches, interrogations, a case board, tails through the city, and a few fights you can't always win. Pick the wrong clue too often and the case goes cold. Miss twice in a row and the game marks the evidence that matters, but working out which lie it breaks is still yours.

Chapters you've reached stay open, so you can go back to any of them. If you've finished The Syndicate, TechRein remembers what you did with Flanagin. If you haven't, it asks.

THE LIMITS, BEFORE YOU PLAY

>> The artwork and the music are made with AI tools. I'd rather you knew that before you decide than after.

The downloads are Windows and Linux. There's no Mac build yet.

It's all one story, and it's the prologue to a superhero comic I'm writing.

If you play all five, tell me which case you'd want to see again.

- Ghost