Steam City

Beneath the smoke and steel of a city running on stolen steam power, something old is stirring, and a detective named Xira Vellhart is the one sent to look into it. The tone stays grim and conspiratorial rather than playful about it.

Xira works cases with her father Alder, chasing down the truth about Atherium, the force tying the city's fate to a handful of people called the Nexaris who can sense it. The deeper she digs into the corruption running the place, the more the investigation turns into open resistance against whoever is squeezing the city from above.

You move through this as a point-and-click sandbox, picking who to talk to and what to chase down, with choices that decide whether Xira pushes back against the people in charge or ends up serving them instead. The game is upfront about which of those it means, literally.