Chrono-Vice

Description:

Chrone-Vice is a pixel art styled watch dealing store management game inspired by Papers Please and other management games. In Chrono-Vice the player takes on the role of a watch store dealer and buys and sells watches to procure an inventory that appeals to the tastes of customers. While buying watches to secure an inventory, the player must watch out (pun intended)  for fake watches and maintain a good reputation to keep buying watches at a profitable price.  To maintain a good reputation, the player can inspect watches and identify fakes using the microscope and brand-manual.

Eventually Chrono-Vice will all be tied together with a riveting story revolving around mafia interference with the watch business, and based on player decisions, multiple endings will be possible. However this portion of Chrono-Vice is still in active development and is not present in available builds. (this will be removed when it is) 

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Major Planned Content for full release:

* Story with multiple endings and level progression 

* Weekday based difficulty and level progression

* More thorough watch inspection mechanics (different tools, more realistic gameplay interaction such as opening the watch case and inspecting the movement). 

* cost and upgrade system

* more hand drawn assets

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Upcoming Minor Content Update Plans 

* A watch display case quick bar to limit main screen clutter and force inventory usage

* Better implementation of Watch inspection checklist so flows with the gameplay better

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Current known issues: 

* Entering inventory results in Tutorial Manual and watch trait checklist slots ejecting their respected items.

* Customer wants need balance

* watch Procedural Generation needs to make more real watches

* Adding watches to inventory can be annoying due to Level boundary issues

* checklist is confusing and needs reversal (as it stands a real watch is no checkboxes clicked and a fake watch is at least one)

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Credits: 

* Dimitry Ross - Developer

* Malcom Parnall - Music

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Feel free to submit any recommendations, this is still very early in development :)

No concrete release date for the full version yet, but Q3 2026 is a good bet.