Planned Release Date: Nov 11, 2026

About This Game

The whole novel. Nothing abridged.

Enter the heat, debt and fever of Dostoevsky’s Saint Petersburg. This interactive edition presents the complete Russian text of Crime and Punishment—all six parts and both chapters of the epilogue—with no prose summarized, rewritten or removed.

A classic staged as a visual novel

Illustrated locations, character staging and pivotal moments give the book rhythm and a sense of place without replacing the author’s words.

Choices around the original, never instead of it

Optional decisions open brief alternative passages, clearly separated from Dostoevsky’s prose, and always return to the canonical text.

Features

• The complete, unabridged Russian original.
  
• Illustrated locations, characters and key moments throughout the novel.
  
• Optional choices that never remove or rewrite the original text.
  
• Save/load, auto mode, skip, reading history, archive and display settings.

In production for launch

English text and voice production are underway for launch. Language and audio support shown by Steam will follow the verified release build.

Content note

Contains mature literary themes and depictions or references to murder, violence, death, suicide, alcoholism, poverty, illness, religious conflict and psychological distress.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Pre-generated visual artwork—including character portraits, locations, cinematic illustrations, store and marketing art—and pre-generated music and ambient audio were created with generative AI tools, then selected, edited, and reviewed by the developer. The novel text is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s complete public-domain original and was not generated or rewritten by AI. No content is generated during gameplay, and the game does not connect to external AI services.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This visual novel presents Dostoevsky’s complete original novel and contains descriptions and illustrations of murder, blood, bodily injury, corpses, suicide, alcoholism, tobacco use, prostitution, poverty, severe psychological distress, and criminal conduct. Sexual content is non-explicit; there is no nudity or graphic sex. Violence is serious and contextual rather than celebratory.