Tales Of The Neon Sea

This point-and-click investigation has a twist in its tail

Palm Pioneer’s sci-fi point-and-click adventure follows the recipe for a classic detective noir. Its protagonist is a hardbitten, heavy-drinking private investigator. Its world is one of faded glamour and corruption, all rundown buildings and gaudy neon. There is, inevitably, a grisly murder that needs solving. But Tales Of The Neon Sea has a secret ingredient all of its own: cats. And not just any old cats, but playable cats. Talking cats. Cats whose social structure and hierarchy seems to have been as carefully thought through as the game’s human world.