Noir&Dice: Detective Mystery

The dice tell you what you saw. You decide what is true. Solve cases with hidden rolls in foggy Vesper Harbor. Power is never for sale, and neither are clues.

In Vesper Harbor the rain never stops, and the fog hides nothing but blurs everything. You are a private detective with an office, a hat, a license running low and files waiting to be solved.

Noir & Dice is a turn-based detective role-playing game played with a d20. The idea in one line: the dice tell you what you saw, but you decide what is true.

THE HIDDEN ROLL Every clue check is rolled in secret. A failed roll never says "you found nothing"; it hands you a wrong but believable clue. You decide which note on your evidence board to trust and which to Verify by spending an action point. When two clues disagree, the red string shows it. When the file closes, every hidden roll is turned over: which clue was real, which one the dice got wrong, all on the table.

HOW IT PLAYS • Each day you have limited action points: visit places, inspect clues, call your contacts. • Evidence board: collect clues, verify them, cross-check them. • Interrogation: opposed rolls and a Pressure meter. Good cop, bad cop, press with evidence or listen in silence. Push too hard and the suspect calls a lawyer. • Tail: blend into the crowd or cut over the roofs. Win four checks before you fail three. • Accuse: you choose the suspect, the motive and the method yourself; no dice are involved in that decision. Then comes the Confrontation. • Accuse the wrong person and your Fame drops and your License loses a life. At zero, the career is over.

FOUR CLASSES Ex-Cop, Journalist, Inspector, Street Informant. Each has its own talent, subclasses and feats. You assign Eye, Mind, Tongue, Street, Fist and Nerve yourself.

THE SHADE A mind sits behind the files: The Shade. The more of its men you catch, the better it knows you. In the Final Case you face it.

EVERY CASE CAN BE SOLVED Every handwritten and generated case is checked so that each fact proving the culprit has at least two independent clue paths. No case is unfair. If you get it wrong, the mistake is in a roll or in your judgment.

THE FAIR-PLAY PROMISE Power is never sold. You cannot buy dice advantages, clues, extra action points or loot boxes. Dice are seeded and recorded, and the result is fixed before the animation plays.

START FREE The tutorial, File 1 (5 cases) and a new Case of the Day every day are free. The Full Archive is a one-time purchase: later files, unlimited careers and three career slots. Cosmetics such as the Amber die and the Night board change looks only.

Works offline, no ads, no account, no personal data collected. Available in 21 languages, with VoiceOver and large-text support.