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In development Location-based detective game

A detective walk
through Minsk.

Last night a silk sash vanished from a family chest in the centre of Minsk. Tomorrow it was due at auction as a treasure. Urban Clues: The Fourth Face gives you one day and the real streets of the city to find out what it really is.

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  • ~2 hTo play
  • 4.2 kmOn foot
  • 10Real places in Minsk
  • 28Endings
  • EN · RULanguages
  • 1–2Players
The case screen for The Fourth Face: an open chest under a lamp, and the brief — the sash vanished last night, your client is waiting at the door, you have one day
How it plays

The city is the board

The Fourth Face is played on foot, in the real streets of Minsk's Upper Town and Trinity Suburb. Walk to ten real places, from the doors of the Kupala Theatre to the riverside, and the case opens as you arrive.

  1. 01

    Walk there

    Follow the case across the map of the centre. Arriving is what opens a place: people to question, papers to read, and things that can only be seen by standing there.

  2. 02

    Work the case

    Question the people involved, look closely at what they hand you, and work the open questions in your notebook as the evidence comes in.

  3. 03

    Put your name to it

    Nobody tells you whether you're right. What you uncover, whom you believe and what you finally sign decide which of 28 endings is yours.

A case, not a quiz

You decide what you believe

Question and press

Question the people involved, show them what you have found, and press them when their story doesn't hold.

Read closely

Letters, ledgers, receipts and a diary page. Look for a watermark, a signature, a pencil note in the margin — and take a document to a handwriting expert, choosing what to compare it with.

Keep your own file

A dossier on everyone, a timeline you build yourself, and notes in the margins. Work the questions in your notebook; nobody marks your answers.

History that checks out

Real history, fiction in the gaps

  • June 1890
  • The Kupala Theatre
  • Słuck sashes
  • The 1911 city plan

The story reaches back to June 1890, the opening of the city theatre that is now the Kupala Theatre, and to the Słuck sashes, whose faces carried different colours for feasts and for mourning. The real history is marked as such. Everything else is fiction written into the gaps of the record, and you can lay a 1911 city plan over today's map.

Your choices, your ending

Twenty-eight endings, shaped by what you uncover, whom you believe and what you finally put your name to. A second walk can end very differently.

English and Russian

Switch languages at any time, even mid-case. Walk it alone or with a second player beside you.

Pause whenever you like

About two hours and about 4.2 km in all, at your own pace. Stop when you need to; your evidence stays with you.

Screens

See the case

The dark street map of central Minsk, with the next place circled by the Svislach river and a message from the client
The map
Arriving at Alina's house on Independence Avenue: a photo of the building, the scene, and the client's first words
You arrive
A handwritten diary page from June 1890 in old Russian spelling, with its English text below
A document
The notebook of open questions, such as who wrote the 1891 letter and why the sash was insured
Think & answer
The clues list, grouped by question: a will, a court summons, a theatre programme and a fund ledger
The clues
The dossier page for Alina Rudnitskaya, your client: a portrait, a description and what the case file says about her
The dossier

Not out yet. Want to know when?

The Fourth Face is coming soon to iOS and Android. Mail play@jmak.games and we'll tell you the day it lands.

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