Press — Arcana Investigations

Fast Facts

27,700 Words of prose

6 Cases across 2 volumes

57 Story nodes

12 Tarot fate-draws

2+ Endings per case

20 Character dossiers

~2–3h Playtime per case

$0 Volume 0 (free)

One Paragraph

Arcana Investigations is a noir interactive fiction set in 1947 Crescent City, a fictional port metropolis controlled by a secret society called the Gilded Circle. Players are Vera Saint-Claire — private detective, former cop, tarot practitioner — investigating a series of murders that expose a decades-long conspiracy. The game's central mechanic uses tarot cards as a psychology tool: symbolic pattern-recognition applied to suspects, motives, and the detective's own blind spots, not fortune-telling. Volume 0 is free and browser-based. Volume 1 (five interlocked cases, ~19,400 words) is $6 Early Access on itch.io.

Pull Quotes

"The cards don't see the future. They see patterns. Same thing people miss when they're looking straight at the truth." — Vera Saint-Claire

"Five cases. One city. Every card tells a lie." — Volume 1 tagline

"Your grandmother's cards. Her killer's secret." — Volume 0 tagline

Links

Volume 0 (free) tarotdetective.itch.io/arcana-investigations
Volume 1 (Early Access) tarotdetective.itch.io/arcana-investigations-volume-1
Developer Stackbilt LLC

Assets

Sample character portraits and location art from Arcana Investigations. A full media kit archive will be available at launch. For high-resolution files or review copies, use the contact below.