Be Max

Max isn’t special. No ambition, no particular talent, just an ordinary guy whose routine gets quietly hijacked the moment small everyday chances start leading somewhere they shouldn’t. The game plays that turn seriously, treating the slide into intrigue and lies as something worth building tension around rather than rushing past.

That slide takes place in Belleval, a European-inspired city where the player's low-key nobody stumbles into a world of desire and conspiracy hiding under ordinary streets and ordinary people.

You move through the city point-and-click style, opening up new neighborhoods as you go, talking to the people who live there, and slowly building relationships and personal attributes rather than skipping straight to payoff. Puzzles and dialogue choices sit alongside the exploration, and the shadows the intro keeps hinting at are meant to be uncovered gradually, update by update, rather than dumped on you at once.