The legendary roaring twenties of Berlin. The first German democracy is tumbling from one state crisis to the next. The political system has broken apart and on the streets armed forces of extremist left and right wing parties fight for superiority. The third largest city of the world is caught in between existential angst and the buzzing lights of the night..“The Curious Case” (CC) is a multi-platform game (Win, Mac, Linux), featuring crime stories in the Berlin of the Weimar Republic. As a chief inspector, the player visits interesting locations of the capital city, questions witnesses and suspects and collects evidence to uncover a hidden web of entanglements and crimes.In an innovative approach to storytelling, each game session is unique as the crime cases are generated out of dynamically assembled story fragments. For each crime case the game simulates the life stories and timelines of dozens of Berlin citizens and generates various degrees of relationships between them: families, classmates, business associates, jail companions and many others. In this web of the most varied milieus, reaching from poverty to wealth, an innovative story algorithm detects potential hooks for interesting crime cases that the player needs to uncover.On a historic map of Berlin the player travels to relevant locations and manages his staff of assistants. When reaching a destination, the game switches into a closeup view in which the player can search for evidence, or see the nervous faces of characters during interrogations. In tone and atmosphere CC takes inspiration from various sources: actual history, Sherlock Holmes, Twin Peaks or X Files. The game is visually presented in a minimalistic, yet colorful and expressive 3D artstyle. The goal of this style is to evoke associations and spur the imagination of the player, creating an image that happens at the same time on screen and in the imagination of the player.