Crown Night
A solo political fantasy told through paper evidence and difficult choices.
- Play on
- Desktop or laptop · Chrome on Windows 11
- 8 US Letter sheets
- Prepare
- Pencil · one fold · no cutting
Download the files. Print at home. No physical items are shipped.
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Inside the experience.
Two sealed commands. One disputed crown. Before dawn, somebody must decide what the kingdom can afford.
Crown Night is a solo political-fantasy investigation played through royal records, grain accounts, a route plan and an offline Night Office. Paper evidence can settle a fact; it cannot make the cost of your decision disappear.
What you actually do
- Restore the royal record by comparing seal impressions, making one marked fold and joining recovered leaves.
- Follow the grain through accounts, receipts and testimony.
- Plan the night roads by tracing a convoy route and balancing cargo against travel watches.
Three investigations lead into three political decisions and four main endings. The game is about succession and responsibility; it does not ask you to solve the old king’s cause of death.
What is included
Complete English edition 1.0.2: eight required US Letter player pages, Night-Office.html, setup instructions, three optional hint levels for each investigation, a separate full solution, licence and version information.
Digital download only. No printed materials or props are shipped.
Set the table
For one adult player. Bring a desktop or laptop with JavaScript enabled, a printer, eight opaque US Letter sheets and a pencil. Print single-sided in grayscale or black and white at Actual Size / 100%. One marked fold is required; no cutting, glue or special paper.
Start, pause and replay
Extract the ZIP, read Read-me-first.txt, print Print.pdf, then open Night-Office.html. There is no real countdown. To pause, copy the displayed recovery code; there is no automatic or cloud save.
The puzzle content is fixed. Replay can explore different political choices, but prior knowledge remains.
Good to know
Personal, non-commercial household play and printing are included. Redistribution, resale and public file sharing are not.