Deduction / Mystery — In development
Habitation Block 17
Nine apartments, a lobby and a basement, modelled in full and rendered like it is 1997. Five in-game days. One register to fill, and an auditor who arrives whether you are ready or not.
Severed Signal Studios presents
In development — Vostrenia, 1983
Habitation Block 17
Nine apartments. Five days. A resident register that burned, and nobody left who will tell you the truth.
A deduction game about paperwork, neighbours, and the small lies that keep people alive under a state that files everything.
The situation
Somebody lived here. The paperwork disagrees.
The last custodian of Block 17 walked out during a fire in the records archive and did not come back. The Ministry has appointed you in his place.
In five days an auditor arrives expecting a complete resident register — every name, every door, every occupation, correctly filed. The old register is ash.
The nine households behind those doors have had years to arrange their stories. Not one of them has a reason to help you.
If you have filled a ledger before
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One building, many rooms, and everybody in it lying about something.
Block 17 is built for the people who finished those and went looking for another.
Our games
What we are working on
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We are a small studio and Block 17 has all of our attention. When there is a second thing to show, the dispatch is where it goes first.
The studio
Severed Signal Studios
We make games about incomplete information — about what you can work out from the things people leave lying around, and what they would rather you did not.
Habitation Block 17 is our first.
The dispatch
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