April 3, 2025
We’re incredibly excited to officially announce our next game: Fog Over Grayditch — a narrative detective game set in a city that hides more than just secrets.
After launching Snowless Night in Early Access, we took time to reflect. As a two-person team, every decision matters. We knew we wanted to keep building emotional, creative games — but our next project had to be something smaller, more focused, and faster to complete. Fog Over Grayditch was the perfect fit.
Fog Over Grayditch is a stylized noir mystery game where you play as private detective, investigating the disappearance of a waman. The police refuse to investigate, convinced she simply left town. But her sister is certain something terrible happened. She convinces you to take the case, and with an official permit in hand, you arrive in Grayditch — a tightly sealed community where outsiders are rare, and if someone is behind her disappearance, it must be one of the locals.
What begins as a search for one woman quickly unravels into a tangled mess of corruption, coded messages, and motives that run deeper than they seem.
Fog Over Grayditch invites players to ask questions, follow clues, and decide who to trust — and who to suspect. There’s no combat here — the game is all about tension, story, and deduction.
Our goal is to make something that feels atmospheric, thoughtful, and personal. The kind of game you play slowly, soaking in dialogue, piecing together evidence, and getting lost in a city that feels alive in its silence.
We’re designing everything to support that experience: moody music, stylized visuals, and a rich story structure with evolving character cards, evidence tracking, and dialogue trees.
Because it’s a smaller project, we hope to finish Fog Over Grayditch in a much shorter timeframe than Snowless Night. We’re already making great progress on story, characters, and prototype systems. But even while it’s compact, it’s packed with style and substance.
This game represents our shift toward tightly-focused indies: games that might be short, but that leave an impact. And if players love it — it will help us fund the next chapter of Snowless Night, too.
We’ll be sharing more concept art, design updates, and behind-the-scenes peeks on our Instagram and YouTube soon. If you love detective stories, noir vibes, or narrative puzzles, this is one to watch.
— VinoGames Team