Bone to Pick: Forensic Case Files
My first game, 3.5 months of work - Bone to Pick, a forensic mystery visual novel
Shared by u/maikoo811 ·
From a single bone to a name — and the truth. A visual novel mystery set in a forensic anthropology lab. Read the bones, search the scenes with your colleagues, run the experiments, and close in on the killer. Seven names waiting, 18 forensic tasks turned into play, and one very good dog.
- Genre
- Adventure
- Runs on
- Windows
- Build
- Demo available · full game coming soon
- Expected release
- Q1 2027
- Store checked
- Oct 16, 2026
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My first game, 3.5 months of work - Bone to Pick, a forensic mystery visual novel ↗
Bone to Pick is a mystery visual novel set in a forensic anthropology lab. You clean bones, lay them out on a skeletal chart, fit broken fragments together, rebuild a face from a skull with clay, and question suspects with the evidence. I've always loved Bones and wanted a game where you solve cases by reading the bones. Making it with AI, I figured a niche topic was the way to go. Some media ended up covering it, and since I released the demo a week ago, over 3,000 people have wishlisted it. The demo survey gave me feedback on two things: the translation, and the game being too easy. Those…
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