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Keyword: A Spider's Thread

Use hacking and social engineering to find your missing daughter in a dystopic sci-fi thriller.

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Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter. Play as Guo, a father with a complex past, who must use all the tools at his disposal to find his daughter, Sala.

Solve problems as you would in real life, hack into emails and social media, and dive into the dark web to find your daughter’s whereabouts, all the while uncovering secrets within your own home. Use binoculars to spy into the homes of neighbors, discover lurking enemies, and look over the city of Toronto to find important clues and put the pieces together.

Straddle the line between reality and the game as you depend on your natural intuition to guide you to your next step. With no dialogue prompts revealing answers it will be up to you to save Sala. Get lost in time loops as you discover if your past is all an illusion, or if it really is as you remember. Can all be forgiven? Is redemption possible? Or is there truly no way out?

  • Has narrative

  • No randomness during problem solving

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    DeveloperCity From Naught Inc.
    PublishersidealCat, Gamera Games and City From Naught Inc.
    Release date28 September 2021
    GenresPuzzle, Detective
    VibesDark, Techy, Mysterious, Futuristic

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