Game Title Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill
Developer Riker
Platforms Steam (Windows, macOS)
Release Date Q1 2027
Price To be announced
Website detectiveturner.com
Publisher ALL DAY ALL NIGHT
Press Contact [email protected]
Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill is a text-driven murder mystery where players investigate the death of Margot Voss by literally reading the room. Search walls and floors for hidden clues, photograph evidence with a polaroid camera, interrogate suspects, and piece together the truth from what the words reveal.
Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill is a murder mystery adventure about uncovering who killed Margot Voss. Players step into the role of Detective Turner and investigate a world built with text, where the writing on the floors, walls, and objects is not just description — it is the crime scene itself.
To solve the case, players must search rooms for hidden clues embedded in the words around them, capture evidence with a polaroid camera, keep careful notes, and confront suspects using what they have discovered. The game’s central hook is simple but distinctive: you don’t just inspect the room — you read it.
At the center of the case is Margot Voss, the powerful editor of fashion magazine Mirage. Brilliant, feared, and impossible to ignore, Margot built her world by deciding who deserved to rise and who needed to be cut down. Her death pulls Turner into a Knives Out-style ensemble cast set in the cutthroat fashion world reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada.
Blending detective fiction, environmental storytelling, and evidence-based interrogation, If Looks Could Kill turns observation into language. Every sentence, placement, and detail may matter, inviting players to slow down, pay attention, and build a case one clue at a time.