A Trans-Siberian Tea

Historian Henri Bernard has spent his life obsessed with La Valériane, a legendary gentlewoman thief who taunted her victims by leaving a pouch of valerian at every crime scene. His investigation into her final heist, a sacred relic stolen from the Tsarina, leads him deep into the Siberian tundra to the long-lost wreckage of a luxury Trans-Siberian train. Buried under decades of ice, the train holds its secrets close. But as Henri steps into the frozen carriages, he discovers he is not alone. The dead are still here, preserved in time, and they hold the key to the truth he has pursued his entire life. - Interrogate the Frozen Dead: Speak with the corpses of passengers trapped inside the wreckage. They respond to your questions, but their minds remain anchored to the moment the train derailed. - Unravel a Branching Investigation: Search private quarters, decipher encrypted letters, and inspect historical artifacts to reconstruct what happened on that fatal journey. - Uncover Sepulchral Secrets: Navigate tense interactions where every passenger holds a piece of the puzzle. Distinguish truth from deception in a train where nobody is quite what they seem. - Handcrafted Visual Style: Immerse yourself in a darkly atmospheric visual novel featuring a striking, hand-drawn aesthetic inspired by early 20th-century historical thrillers. - Unsettling Character Design: Encounter haunting passenger designs whose frozen expressions blur the line between lingering memories and corpses. - A Steel Coffin in the Tundra: Explore the narrow, creaking carriages of a luxury 1910 train where time stopped over a century ago. - Historical Psychological Dread: An oppressive soundscape and historical mystery weaving real rumors of Rasputin, high-society heists, and lingering psychological dread.