Some gameplay footage of the detective sim Black Closet:

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There may be some skeletons...heck there may be some bodies in this closet but it's all for the greater good.

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Today's the release day for the detective Sim RPG Black Closet:

Command your minions to solve mysteries and cover up scandals in a high-class boarding school, where the competition is cut-throat and image is everything. But be careful - one of your minions is a traitor.

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Kaira Villanueva (TheMarySue.com) has reviewed Black Closet from Hanako Games - a snippet:

Black Closet: A Game of Schoolgirl Noir

[...] Aside from my previous experience, I went ahead and opened up Black Closet. Once I was introduced as the president of the student council at St. Claudine, an all-girl high school, I nodded my head and carefully listened to the head mistress, Miss Talmage explaining that I’m responsible for keeping up the reputation of the school that refines the daughters of the accomplished, famous, and moneyed aristocrats. On top of Elsa, the main character, there are also five controllable minions that are part of the student council. Ultimately, the school’s fate is in the hands of six students. I mean, no pressure right? I told myself that it’s not a big deal to disappoint everyone at St. Claudine, but as I kept interacting with the characters, I found myself becoming more and more anxious about how well I’ve tackled my responsibilities.

On the main game window, the tasks are assigned in chronological order as logs using a manila folder backdrop. The player can click the logs to track the progress of each respective task. New assignments start in the beginning of each week, and throughout the week as well. The dilemmas can stem from vandalism, missing items, suicidal students, violent students, missing students, stage anxiety, or even the assumption of having a problem. Ironically, when a player fails to discover that a situation presented in the log is non-existent (i.e. fake rumors) then it will still impact the council’s karma negatively. I give them points for this because circulating false information could lead to unwanted consequences especially if it pertains to politics.

An important note to remember is that all assigned tasks are time sensitive, and the council is expected to resolve the tasks that are handed out during the beginning of school week on Monday and have it done before the weekend on Friday. Failure to work out the cases will result into automatic deduction of council and sometimes school karma. The cases are displayed by the order in which they are given, with the newest one on the right side labeled with the log number. [...]

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