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11 Overview
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33 Curious Deductions is a deduction quest gameplay mode with multiple branching endings. It was built to give the detective side of the game a format of its own rather than more linear case scenes, and the developers have committed to producing further cases in the same shape.
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56 It sits alongside the critical path rather than inside it. Cases are grouped under Curious Cases in the Commissions list, and they are worked on the Evidence Board like any other case.
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78 The Resurrection Enigma
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910 The first Curious Deduction is The Resurrection Enigma, introduced in the second closed beta. Its published premise: in the dead of night amid cemetery tombs, a mystery unfolds with a vanishing wound. After a scholar's death, an ancient legend casts its shadow over a secluded manor, and the only explanation defies everything people thought they knew.
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1112 How a Deduction Runs
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1314 StepWhat happensGatherClues come from people across the social spectrum and from the scene itself. Not every clue points at the truth; some are deliberately misleading.DeduceEvery deduction shapes the investigation and steers the case toward a different conclusion. The detail is where the case is won or lost.ConcludeReaching an ending closes that reading of the case. You can keep deducing until you land on an answer you are satisfied with.RestartThe Restart Deduction button reverts Evidence Board progress so you can pursue another ending without abandoning the case.
1415 There is only one truth. Unveiling it unlocks a unique collectable and an achievement, which frames the other endings as attempts rather than as equally valid outcomes.
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1617 Achievements
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1819 AchievementObjectiveReactor CrystalsThe Game Is AfootAchieve any ending for the first time10The Truth Will OutAchieve the true ending of The Resurrection Enigma20Enigmatic ReturnUse Restart Deduction for the first time10
1920 The track is filed under Hero's Journey on the Achievements screen, next to Major Cases, Private Requests and City Errands.
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2122 Notes
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2324 The mode name, the case premise, the multiple-ending design, the Restart Deduction button and the commitment to more cases are all official.The achievement rows are transcribed from the second closed beta build.Curious Deductions is one of the systems the post-test report singled out for continued development, alongside the wider Investigation System.