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City Affairs
August 25, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Initial version (2026-08-25)
City Affairs is a set of activities in Silver Palace that sits apart from casework and from the daily objective list. It has its own stamina resource, its own currency and its own progression level, so playing it does not compete with the Vitality spent on repeatable combat content.
The system was documented during the second closed beta. Like the rest of that build's city layer, its structure is more reliable than its numbers, which are the first thing a live release retunes.
City Affairs runs on Free Time rather than on the stamina that gates the rest of the game. Free Time regenerates on its own and can be topped up with a consumable itinerary item. Keeping the two pools separate is a deliberate design choice: the leisure activities are meant to be somewhere to spend an evening rather than another daily obligation competing for the same budget.
The activity strand proper. Each one involves specific members of the cast, which gives the roster something to do outside combat in the same way the property system does:
Activity | What it is |
|---|---|
Coffeehouse | Preparing coffee correctly for the customers of the Voicepipe Cafe, played by the Detective. The cafe is already established as one of Morgue Street's information exchanges, so working the counter puts the Detective where the city's gossip is. |
Royal Equestrian Tournament | Competitive horseback racing across Silvernia, played by the Detective. This is the formal version of the street racing the publisher described as arriving with the second test, covered on Traversal and Mounts. |
Scarlet Gambit | A one-on-one card game against Red Rose, in which a base deck is joined by special cards carrying their own effects. |
A gameplay showcase released in July 2026 previewed open-world activities including driving, chess and board games alongside the casework, and Case Affairs is where that side of the game is organised.
The Intel Zone is gated behind property ownership. Buying specific properties in Silvernia turns them into a passive source of the currency City Affairs pays out in, which is then spent at the information exchange. It is the point where the property system stops being a self-contained economy and starts feeding another one.
Taking part in City Affairs earns experience toward a Popularity level, capped at 10 in the build it was documented in. Levels pay out in a mix of Reactor Crystals, Ounces, Reputation and further Free Time items, which is what keeps the track worth running rather than purely decorative.
Popularity is a separate measure from Reputation. Reputation tracks how established the Detective is as an investigator and gates the difficulty of the world; Popularity tracks a social standing built out of coffee, cards and horse races. The two are earned from different activities and spent on different things.
A third strand, the Relations Network, appears in the interface but was not available to play in the build it was documented in. Nothing has been published about what it does.
City Roaming, Reputation, Property and Estate System, Exploration, Commissions, Dichotomy Beta.
