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THE MERMAID’S TONGUE

Developer/publisher SFB Games

Format PC, consoles TBA

Origin UK

Release 2024

The time is four o’clock – in the morning, of course, because mysteries never sleep, and neither do those who solve them – and Grimoire is naturally up and ready to get started. His assistant Sally, on the other hand, is slumbering sweetly – at least for the time being. An eerie green light creeps through the gaps between the beams across the windows of their dilapidated temporary headquarters.

Outside The Stonetop Inn, meanwhile, a mist hangs over the dock like a ghostly shroud. By the pier, a submarine’s fin pokes out of the dark waters like that of a shark waiting in the shallows for its unwitting prey.

Opening the case file reveals the details of the murder the pair are about to

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