...In a town on the west of the former Russian Empire, bolsheviks are preparing a ceremony of opening the tomb of a saint's relics within their recently proclaimed antireligious campaign. You are a journalist who was sent to write a story about it. When it turns out that the relics were stolen right before the pompous propaganda ceremony, you have to solve the mystery of their disappearance. While making an investigation and collecting the evidence, you spend several days in a post-revolutionary town, torn apart by inner conflicts and still living its everyday life.
The setting of the quest «19|19» is designed by professional historians and based on the study of local periodicals, diaries, memoirs, fiction and nonfiction literature from the late 1910s. Detailed descriptions of objects, well-developed and historically reliable storylines of main characters and realistic sound effects are combined with a good sense of humour and unique visual style.
In the point&click adventure «19|19» you will:
⁃ investigate an intricate story and the world of an ordinary Russian town in the wake of the revolution;
⁃ solve puzzles;
⁃ suggest a reliable hypothesis about the crime;
⁃ accuse one of the persons you’ve met during the game;
⁃ and write a story to be published in a fictional Moscow paper «The Red Case».
