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Neuro has a murder mystery to solve! Can you find out who or what stands behind the case? Made in 72 hours for the second birthday of the AI Vtuber Neuro-sama. The theme is: Remnants of the Past.

If you notice slowdowns with the web version, or audio issues (especially music-related), try the downloadable versions.

Tutorial: This is a point-and-click adventure game. Click with the left mouse button on things to interact with them. Your collected items are found under the box icon in the corner: click on the item, then click on something to use them together (right click to cancel). You can also right click or long press on an item to inspect it.

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Here's is my third Neuro-themed game, this time with colored art! Unfortunately I haven't had time to add all the dialogs I planned, but it has the core storyline, and the game should be fully playable. I'm planning to release a post-jam version after the voting period with more content and bug fixes.

Some more info about the theme: I was a bit late with the submission, so in more detail (spoilers!):

"How does your game fit/incorporate the theme of the game jam?": A past offer that could be taken by Vedal created an alternative timeline, now directly affecting our present day. This decision, and its consequences can be viewed as remnants of the past.

Credits:

• Code, art, writing: Shard
• Music and sound effects (free assets): Trouble Makers by Matthew Pablo. MC Center Of The Earth by Patrick de Arteaga. Classical Murder by Alexandr Zhelanov. LOOP BOX #1 from Of Far Different Nature. Desde la sementera de la nada from Snabisch. Music Laboratory Vol. 01 by Alba_Mac. Day in the Park by SterlingRay. Crystal Cave + Mysterious Ambience by The Cynic Project. Rainy Jazz & Traffic by StereoPhysics. Next to You by John. ぴこぴこライダー from Hiiragi Hanon, Phone Ringing #3 by Audaciter.
• Images (free assets): Scuola di Atene by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. Set of glowing diode digits from Adobe Stock Photos/Trifonenko Ivan. Figure 1 from US patent 2632128.

AI info: The Japanese and Chinese in-game localizations were created with the help of machine translation. This feature was added after the jam has ended.