Hello detectives!

The “Off-Duty” update is live now!

This is our first content update of 2025.

You can now get into the detective spirit and chill with a pack of smokes when a case just gets too demanding (we do not recommend this in real life 😅)

Want to relax after a long day of sleuthing? Try a round of the brand-new digital card game, Wizards. A fantasy-themed grid-based card game. Be the first to bring your AI opponent’s HP to 0 to win. Strategically place your cards on the board, utilise their unique abilities, and watch the battle ensue each turn.

Go a little rogue and take on a secret shoe-stealing side mission (check your local newspaper for details 😜)

This update brings even more bug fixes, game polish and QOL improvements.

Get back on the case, detectives. It won't solve itself!



Full list of changes, updates and features listed below

V 40.02 Update Notes:

- New: Smokable cigarettes and cigars! (Steam version only - due to age rating restrictions)
- New: A whole new in-cruncher game; Wizcards.
- New: Secret side hustle opportunity, check the newspaper for info…
- New: The player can set their own cruncher passcode in the gameplay options menu.
- New: Player now visible on CCTV Surveillance.
- New: Some new items that were either not in the game or not spawning, including: Violin, Saxophone, Tennis Racket, Banh Mi and Yorkie Pie.*
- Fixed: Player now has complete self profile info.
- Fixed: A case of cruncher V-Mail app not loading & causing further gameplay issues (including a hard lock).
- Fixed: A possible game freeze when the game was picking a sniper victim.
- Fixed: Attempted fix for photos given to the player from side job disappearing from the case board.
- Fixed: Citizens photographed while asleep or handcuffed appear to stand in the photo.
- Fixed: ‘How Are You Doing’ dialog option spawned the name bribe dialog option.
- Fixed: Player’s belongings were still in their would-be starting apartment, even if the ‘Sandbox Starting Apartment’ setting was turned off. They also had a key.
- Fixed: Some grammar mistakes with double use of ‘hair’ when describing hair type and colour.
- Fixed: Using a cruncher placed in décor mode immediately could cause it (and you) to clip through the floor.
- Fixed: The ‘Seen or Heard Anything Unusual?’ Dialog option did not work when speaking over the telephone.
- Fixed: If the player answered a phone call intended for an NPC, there would be no dialog, and if the player hung up and picked up the phone again they would say the intended receiver’s lines.
- Fixed: Telephone call logs don’t give away too much info in their connections tab.
- Fixed: Loading the game in some rare cases could teleport the player to a different apartment.
- Fixed: Briefcase now more consistently stays inside the world.
- Fixed: Physics live time and physics profile adjusted to ensure Player/NPC's can't kick the briefcase incredibly hard.
- Fixed: Tweaked physics modes on all objects; this should stop them from falling through geometry.
- Fixed: Thrown objects more accurately inherit their initial held position.
- Fixed: Issue where trespassing status would not update after exiting an air vent (would stay on orange/minor level instead of red/severe).
- Fixed: You now cannot drop objects while in an air duct (to avoid them clipping through the side and getting lost)
- Fixed: You can now throw objects through open air vents (previously they would collide with an invisible barrier).
- Fixed: Coat stand collider meant that you couldn’t interact with some items that spawned on its base.
- Fixed: Kettle now has accurate sfx when thrown.
- Fixed: Keypad doors are no longer lock-pickable.
- Fixed: Handles on doors with keypads can no longer be lockpicked.
- Fixed: Geometry hole outside 1st floor windows at City Hall
- Added: Feedback: Call objective updates immediately when calling kidnapper back after setting up briefcase.
* Requires a new city generation to appear/spawn/see

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• Much improved mini-map rendering speed
  
• Fixed: Citizens could become stuck in a loop cleaning up receipts from the floor in their home if certain conditions were met.
  
• Fixed: In certain circumstances the player could give items to dead citizens.
  
• Fixed: Taking a bullet casing from an apartment-stored inventory could result in a non-droppable item that the player could repeatedly take.
  
• Fixed: An inaccessible light switch could spawn behind a water cooler.*
  
• Fixed: Game forgot player’s own discovered password on save/load.
  
• Fixed: Attempted fix for certain achievements not completing until the player ate/drank.
  
• Fixed: Attempted fix for certain achievements not unlocking at the correct time (sometimes only once the game was over).
  
• Fixed: KO’ing a citizen by door barging did not count towards the ‘Spare No-one’ achievement.
  
• Fixed: Décor mode UI spawned partially off-screen on Steam Deck (1280x800).
  
• Fixed: News Stands always sold the ‘Cartographer’ sync disk for their daily deal.

• Much improved mini-map rendering speed
  
• Fixed: Citizens could become stuck in a loop cleaning up receipts from the floor in their home if certain conditions were met.
  
• Fixed: In certain circumstances the player could give items to dead citizens.
  
• Fixed: Taking a bullet casing from an apartment-stored inventory could result in a non-droppable item that the player could repeatedly take.
  
• Fixed: An inaccessible light switch could spawn behind a water cooler.*
  
• Fixed: Game forgot player’s own discovered password on save/load.
  
• Fixed: Attempted fix for certain achievements not completing until the player ate/drank.
  
• Fixed: Attempted fix for certain achievements not unlocking at the correct time (sometimes only once the game was over).
  
• Fixed: KO’ing a citizen by door barging did not count towards the ‘Spare No-one’ achievement.
  
• Fixed: Décor mode UI spawned partially off-screen on Steam Deck (1280x800).
  
• Fixed: News Stands always sold the ‘Cartographer’ sync disk for their daily deal.

• Fixed: Some number pad selection issues while using a controller (using D-Pad selection moves the virtual cursor)
  
• Fixed: Missing Work ID and Wallet in Tutorial
  
• Fixed: Incorrect citizen age calculation
  
• Fixed: Number keys pull up inventory items during cruncher passcode entry (as they are also hotkeys)
  
• Fixed: Apartment keys could be stolen legally while the player obtained a guest pass
  
• Fixed: Player gained the ‘wet’ status effect while in an exterior air duct if it was raining
  
• Fixed: Removed inspect action for bleach bottle as it was missing a summary
  
• Fixed: Candles played a switch on/off sound when interacted with
  
• Fixed: It was possible in rare cases for a killer to not pick a murder weapon, leading to problems with them executing murders
  
• Fixed: The black market sync doctor would not go to work
  
• Fixed: Long delays in citizens going to work (resulting in them often being late; they still can be but it should happen less often)
  
• Fixed: The black market trader only had 2 staff; meaning it could only stay open for half of the week*
  
• Fixed: The player could quickly select an alternate user on the login screen on a cruncher after a successful passcode input, and the cruncher would log them into that account.
  
• Fixed: Failed inputs after case board closing
  
• Fixed: Failed inputs after text input
  
• Fixed: Small changes to ensure we're updating our last active controllers.
  
• Fixed: An issue with the control state flags
  
• Fixed: An unlisted bug where you could get stuck without control access in the main menu

• Fixed: Apartment storage items missing on load game
  
• Fixed: Player movement could sometimes become restricted when crouched
  
• Fixed: When a new crime scene is opened, enforcers no longer target other people who live there
  
• Fixed: Citizens should no longer attempt to turn on the lights in a room where another citizen is sleeping
  
• Fixed: Citizens could get stuck sitting while waiting for the player to come and meet them for side job info. These side jobs can now also be failed if you don’t meet them in time.
  
• Fixed: Multiple entries of the same dialog option for side jobs
  
• Fixed: The player could not inspect the menu in the hotel
  
• Fixed: A tweak to how disabling the sandbox mode murderer works; this will now only take effect after an active one is caught or a new game is started. The previous method could result in some edge cases with the worst of them stopping murderers from ever being re-activated.
  
• Fixed: Kitchen overhead cabinet interaction collider could block pinned notes from being interacted with.
  
• Fixed: Placing an Ash Tray or Green Desk Lamp in décor mode could result in the object interacting with the player movement physics in weird ways.
  
• Fixed: Direction Arrow could reappear when disabled in game options after the player used the camera or observed CCTV.
  
• Fixed: In older generated cities, prices of certain items that have since been changed in more recent updates could create an infinite source of money if you purchased then sold them at pawn shops.
  
• Fixed: Having a guest pass for an address on an Echelon floor didn’t give you access to the floor without it being classed as trespassing. Having a guest pass will now also allow you to enter the floor’s communal area without trespassing.
  
• Fixed: Apartment purchase flyers could be spawned for apartments that the player had already purchased.
  
• Fixed: A few spelling mistakes