The Hushed Ledger
Morass · Sep 13, 2026
A detective RPG with no combat in it. Question a river town that would rather you left, gather what people let slip, and name the guilty party yourself — the game never tells you the answer. 28 cases, and every one can be solved from what you were actually shown.
About The Hushed Ledger
The ledger is honest. Everyone reading it is not. You are a detective of some small reputation, called downriver to Dreskmark because a mill burned and nobody will say why. What you find is a town that runs on debts nobody writes down, favours nobody admits to, and a trade everyone calls the Hush. There is no combat. Not as a restriction — as the design. Every door in this game opens with a question, a noticed detail, or a name you were not supposed to know yet. You do the deducing The game will not solve a case for you and will not quietly withhold the answer either. Every case is fair-play : the evidence that convicts is evidence you can find, and no accusation is possible that the town did not give you grounds for. When you name someone, you are staking your own reading of what you saw — and the game lets you be wrong. 28 hand-authored cases — arson, substitution, forged warrants, a name chalked on a door, a debt settled the quiet way. Talk-gated discovery — you cannot ask about a crime nobody has mentioned to you. Rumour travels before you do. A casebook that is yours — facts, leads and contradictions collect as you earn them, not as the plot needs them. Choices with a verdict
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