Planned Release Date: 2026

About This Game

CLAWBACK is a first-person exploration and detective game in which your goal is to falsify death investigations and assemble manufactured evidence for survival and profit.

It is the near future. Impoverished governments are forced to rely on private corporations for the funding of basic civil services.

In exchange for sponsoring police departments, insurance companies are given the right to offer massive cash bonuses to sworn officers who discover evidence of insurance fraud - especially fraud that leads to the reduction or elimination of claims.

The program is incredibly successful.

Gather CONTAMINATE Evidence

As a newly-appointed death investigator in the local police department, the scenes you attend are filled with vital and accurate information on how, when and why your victims perished.

You need to distort and obscure as much of this information as possible.

Interview BREAK Witnesses

A legal and honest interrogation of witnesses and family members is not going to get you anywhere.

Abuse your authority to extract false confessions, pin crimes on the innocent and intimidate secrets out of people that you can twist and manipulate to suit your own agenda.

Solve DESTROY Cases

Fabricating new evidence won't be enough - you'll need to piece all of it together into a false and compelling narrative that is reasonably believable.

The more damaging it is to the insurance policies of the deceased, the richer and more admired within the department you'll become.

Uphold The Law JUSTICE

Your position as a filthy cop in a harsh and unforgiving era affords you an enormous amount of power. This power draws the attention of ambitious people and hidden interests. 

As you rise professionally, you'll find yourself drawn into a web of deceit that exceeds your own, unravelling a larger conspiracy with branching paths, disturbing revelations and multiple endings.

Key Features

• A timely and original dramatic narrative from the writer of Actual Sunlight and Little Red Lie.

• An initial layer of first-person investigation and exploration gameplay that challenges you to not merely discover evidence, but reshape and reframe it to indicate criminal acts that never actually took place.

• A secondary layer of detective-style case file gameplay in which you must select and arrange false evidence into tall tales of criminal misdeeds that will impress your superiors - and wreak havoc on the lives of everybody drawn into them.

• An interactive route map feature that enables players to return to cases in order to try different solutions, which in turn lead down different story paths.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

While in the development and public demo / playtesting phase, the game is temporarily using AI-generated voiceovers.

Upon full release, these will be replaced with human performances and there will no longer be any AI content in the game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game involves falsifying evidence within death investigations. Accordingly, the manipulation of dead bodies in a non-realistic, low-poly graphical style does occur.

There are also references to suicide, murder, drug abuse and violence in general. These are events are only depicted in text.