The Wrong Horse
By Bird Outside Studio
Funded with 40,000 €
Games Lift 2025
Prototype Funding 2026 / 1
“The Wrong Horse” is a colorful murder mystery adventure, that takes place at a horse racing track. As a journalist, it's your job to uncover the secrets surrounding the death of a jockey and identify the culprit!
In this detective game, the players’ deduction and reasoning skills are put to the test. They must investigate their surroundings, engage in conversation, and solve the case of a dead jockey.
In addition to the lovingly hand-drawn characters and colorful locations, a series of puzzles await the players. They need to find various clues to answer questions and solve challenges within their case files. Some mysteries are easier to uncover than others, and the more information one gathers about this case, the more complex it seems to become. Who is lying and what are they trying to cover up? Not everybody is in a chatty mood, and to get them to talk, the players might need to confront them with some hard-hitting evidence.
The pretty spectacle is charming, but not all of the visitors are here for the horse racing festivities. It's up to the player to uncover the truth and get to the bottom of this case!
Bird Outside Studio! Under this name, Sharon Sacks and Vincent Will are working on „The Wrong Horse“, a game that unites their shared enthusiasm in illustration and humorous storytelling. After several successful small games, they quickly realized how much they could achieve as a creative team and now want to put their energy towards a bigger project.
With that, they are diving into a colorful detective-genre and are looking forward to developing an extraordinary world. More projects are supposed to follow, because they want to build up their studio long-term with a focus on visually and narratively strong games.
