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.