You're the last lawyer in the room. Every case is impossible. Every choice writes the verdict. A branching legal thriller about defending the indefensible — and the cost of winning anyway.
We wanted to make a courtroom game where the writing carried as much weight as the mechanics, and where 'winning' a case sometimes meant losing a piece of yourself. The procedural side — argument trees, evidence chaining, witness pressure meters — had to feel like an actual trial, not a quiz show.
Six self-contained cases, each branching into four to seven endings, written by a former public defender we hired as lead narrative designer. We built a custom dialogue tool in-house — Caselaw — so writers could prototype branching arguments without engineering support. Hand-drawn portraits, full English voice cast, and a jazz-noir score recorded live.
Cross-Examined launched January 2026. 8/10 from a major outlet, picked up for an unexpected paperback novelization, and we're already in pre-production on a second case file.
Demo site — this game is fictional. No store page exists.
