Konami announced a new game today and it’s not Metal Gear or Silent Hill (shocking, I know). It’s a “social deduction game” called CrimeSight, where you play as an AI detective trying to solve a murder before it happens.
We’ll get into the game’s Minority Report-inspired plot later, but first, take a look at the trailer Konami posted on Twitter. Notice anything a little strange at, say, 0.001 seconds in?
Your eyes do not deceive you. For whatever reason, Konami decided to record its own YouTube trailer and embed that into a Tweet rather than just use the source file.
And the weirdest part? I can’t even find the source trailer on Konami’s YouTube page.
But back to CrimeSight. In the year 2075, an AI called “Foresight” predicts crimes before they happen “based on information found on the network,” according to the game’s Steam description. Foresight was so good at predicting crimes it managed to reduce crime rates by 90%. But then Foresight predicted a future where society collapsed for some reason, and rather than the engineers looking for an obvious bug in Foresight’s programming, they decided to create another AI to find the source of this impending societal apocalypse.
They called this new AI “Sherlock,” who quickly discovered that there’s a bad guy AI named “Moriarity” who just wants to watch the world burn, apparently.
Now that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been mashed into a Tom Cruise movie, you’ll be doubly confused to find out that CrimeSight actually takes place in a ski lodge where a group of eight people has been snowed in from a blizzard. One of them will eventually kill someone else and it’s up to you to figure out who the murderer is before the murder has even happened. And if you don’t, this will somehow lead to the end of civilization as we know it.
To figure out how that’s even remotely possible, you’ll have to take part in CrimeSight’s closed beta that starts tomorrow on Steam. To get a Steam key, retweet the weird YouTube-recorded ad above and then go to CrimeSight’s Discord to post an emoji. Then enjoy the closed beta from now until July 11. Applications close on July 10, so there’s a bit of time left for you to decide whether CrimeSight is worth your time.
