Inkle, the creator of 80 Days, Overboard! and Heaven’s Vault, is back with an intriguing deduction game centered around a mysterious WWII machine.
TR-49 is billed as a narrative deduction game meets audio drama. So, as the developer itself states, expect something along the lines of games like The Roottrees are Dead, Her Story, and audio dramas such as Paradoxica.
TR-49 Trailer is Mystery-Coded
Check out the story description below alongside the trailer.
A voice is saying your name. A WWII-era machine, long hidden in a church basement, whirs to life. Through a crackling speaker, a man asks you to find a stolen book. He only knows the title. Time is running out.
The machine, created by Bletchley Park engineers Cecil Caulderly and Beatrice Dooler, contains a vast archive of obscure books, letters, and journals fed in over the span of fifty years in an attempt to crack the code of reality. As their lives fell apart, the machine kept working.
Navigate the computer’s archive. Link its obscure texts and uncover its creators’ secrets. Communicate with the man behind the speaker to figure out your role in this mystery. Destroy the book at the core of the machine — before it’s too late.
It’s got a pretty rich voice cast that includes talent from Baldur’s Gate 3, The SCP Archives, and my favorite game of 2025, The Séance of Blake Manor. Laurence Chapman, who composed scores for Inkle’s previous titles such as A Highland Song, returns to provide the tunes for TR-49.
TR-49 is set to launch on January 21, 2026, for PC via Steam, and for mobile via the App Store.
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