Planned Release Date: September 2026

About This Game

A dead man. A borrowed name. A case no one wants reopened.

Wild East: The Straw Man is a story-driven 2D point-and-click adventure set in the wild 1990s of Slovakia and Czechia.

Marek Varga is a young reporter at a small newsroom, sent to cover what looks like a routine death: a company director, a few suspicious papers, and another case everyone would rather forget.

But the dead man was not the person in control. He was a straw man: a name on documents, a signature where someone else needed one, and a body left behind when the scheme became inconvenient.

Together with Czech reporter Eva Svobodová, Marek follows answering-machine messages, old files, witness stories, locked doors, and uncomfortable favors through a world where the official version is rarely the true one.

Take your time. Read the room. Follow the paper trail.

This is a slower, atmospheric mystery built around conversations, observation, documents, inventory puzzles, and the strange logic of a decade where almost anything could be explained away with a stamp, a favor, or a missing file.

Features

• Classic 2D point-and-click adventure gameplay.
  
• A grounded mystery set in 1990s Slovakia and Czechia.
  
• Two reporters uncovering one case from different sides of the border.
  
• Dialogue-driven investigation with choices that matter.
  
• Inventory puzzles, documents, witness accounts, and locked doors.
  
• Dry local humor and atmospheric, slower-paced storytelling.
  
• Full voice acting planned in English, Slovak, and Czech.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

This game uses pre-generated AI-assisted assets in some development and marketing materials, including draft visuals, voice work, localization support, and production references. Final content is reviewed and curated by the developer. The game does not generate AI content during gameplay.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains mature themes related to crime, fraud, corruption, death, and references to alcohol or tobacco. Violence is presented in a non-graphic investigative context.