“You’ve got to spend it to make it.”

She sizes up the holographic front desk, with its sprinkling of things to OBSERVE.

“Let’s see if I can’t poke around and shake some change loose.”

A card battle in Of The Devil, with a red-haired woman squaring off against a detective in an eyepatch

You use your phone’s AR functionality to comb a hot pink projection of the crime scene.

The near-future setting takes shape in a glittery wash of allusions to experimental androids and surveillance and unjust laws.

The dialogue becomes almost steely.

Cover image for YouTube video

Yes, that line about information being a currency was a tutorial, actually.

The characters are rakish, crazy-eyed confections with an efficient spread of expressions and changes of posture.

Find Of The Devil on Steam.

It’s a pay-per-episode format, with one paid episode available so far.

Thanks very much to freelance scribe Autumn Wright forspotting the game and boosting it on Bluesky.