1. A Game About Private Eyes On the Wrong Side of the Law
Dicks
A Game About Private Eyes
On the Wrong Side of the Law

2. Premise
You are a small town private investigator pulled into the seedy world of crime and political scandals in the early 1980s.
You are not, strictly speaking, a Good Guy. You take the jobs you can get, and you accomplish them using any means necessary.
Quirky humor in the vein of the Coen brothers’ black comedy crime dramas.

3. Gameplay
Play it your way! You have a high level objective, a contained yet non-linear environment, and a wide range of tools.
Be sneaky, be violent, or just be a dick—the world is full of non-combat characters to bribe, charm, or otherwise subvert.
Share clues, trade gear, or challenge your friends with the game’s connected features.

4. Theme
Quirky crime stories in the vein of Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Burn After Reading.
Separable narrative: A myriad of short story arcs instead of one monolithic narrative, modeled after serial television shows.
1980s USA: Not the neon, new wave, and cocaine of Vice City, but an everyday ‘80s that unasks questions about tech in the world.

5. Similar Titles
Hitman: Blood Money: For its contained mission structure, civilian NPCs, and mix of stealth and combat. (Disregard the more recent Hitman: Absolution, it was a very different game.)
Dishonored: For its contained mission structure and play-your-way values.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution: For its mix of stealth, combat, and social simulations.

6. Target Audience
Fans of “immersive sims” or open-ended action games, who want to interleave stealth, combat, and more, but without the hard failure conditions of a pure stealth game.
Fans of quirky crime dramas, caper stories, and serial television shows.
Gamers who are tired of the same ol’ same ol’ shootyman AAA video games.