Profiler

A childhood accident took your parents, left you with distant relatives, and gave you one goal: become a detective good enough to find out what actually happened. It didn't work out. Years of distrust and buried fear made you unfit for the job, so you quit, until a friend dragged you back to your hometown and put a clue back in your hands.

The old case reopens, and so do the nightmares behind it. Digging further turns up something stranger than a cold case: you may not be entirely human, or at least not entirely like everyone else. The people you meet along the way, guarded as you are, start getting past your walls anyway, and the closer you get to the truth, the more you have to think about keeping them safe rather than just solving the mystery.

You spend your time chasing leads through a school-town setting, running into a small cast of women pulled into the investigation with you, and watching the horror-tinged plot unfold in animated 3DCG scenes rather than static stills. The detective framing stays central even as the story leans into its harem and horror threads, so the mystery, not just the cast, is what keeps pulling you forward.