Venice After Dark

Discover a surreal Venice in this gripping point-and-click-novel-adventure game. Solve a variety of puzzles and chat with quirky characters to uncover the mystery surrounding the Stucky family. Find out what it means to be human!

In this atmospheric mix of point-and-click adventure and visual novel, you explore an unusually complex Venice through the eyes of Aiko, an introverted programmer, and Thea, a super-clever but sometimes quirky AI.

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Fact sheet

Developer:
Sebastian Grünwald, Weltenwandler Designagentur GmbH
Based in Germany

Genre: Point-and-Click Adventure
Languages: English (voiceover and text), German (voiceover and text), further languages to be announced

Release date: April 2026

Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Website:
artexsoft.com/venice-after-dark

Social
Instagram: vad_game
Facebook: facebook.com/VeniceAfterDark
Artex Instagram: artex_indies

Description

Complex puzzles, sensory illusions, and moral decisions challenge you. Reality and dreams, past and present begin to blur—and with them the question of what it actually means to be human.

  • Classic point-and-click adventure in a mysterious crime setting.
  • Fantastic hand-animated scenes, characters, and animations.
  • High-quality sound with a complete soundtrack and full voice acting for all characters.
  • Exciting fact-fiction story with real locations in Venice and real historical figures and events.
  • Three different endings depending on your decisions in the storyline.
  • Humorous dialogue puzzles and countless fully-fledged NPCs.

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