DEBT DEADLINE PRESS-KIT

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Developer

Whispering Naked Man

Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷

Release Date

Q1 2025 (PC/Mac/Linux)

Platforms

PC/Mac/Linux

(Others TBA)

Website

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Steam

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Regular Price

9999.99$ (TBA)

DESCRIPTION

We drag you onto David’s headspace: A disturbed Debt Collector hustling on the surreal Naked City. In this survival narrative psycho-thriller RPG, you use secrets to manipulate, craft alliances, and create murder schemes. Manage your sanity or your mind will turn against you.

FEATURES

The game plays out as a visual novel featuring a pixel-cinematic art style with TTRPG elements.

Throw dice, increase your reputation level, gain perks, buy equipment, use violence, and earn Secrets**.** A web of relationships is woven between all characters of the enclave, and secrets will allow David to manipulate them. The cut earned from collection contracts is too low. You’ll be never strong enough. You’ll be forced to resort to intrigue.

Powered by a procedural fiction engine, each playthrough is weaved by using hundreds of micro-events that only happen when it makes sense. This complex engine was the first prototyped component when making this game.

Sanity is a resource: it goes down when David is forced to take choices against his will, like betraying a friend, doing immoral deeds, and more. When sanity runs out, the collector is forced to fight against his shadow, and face his own regretful choices in surreal scenes.

Secrets are items you earn along the way, and are used to gossip, make alliances and betrayals, blackmail, intimidate, and more. For instance, any secret can be a gossip to someone uninvolved, but a blackmail when used against their creator.

Secrets are the first-class citizens of Naked City.

On the making of Debt Deadline, we draw many influences ranging from organized crime fiction, thrillers, psychological horror, cosmic horror, Lynchian filmography and RPG narrative games like Citizen Sleeper, Roadwarden, King Of The Dragon Pass, Six Ages, Disco Elysium and more.