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The Curiosity Clerk

"The Curiosity Clerk" is a Victorian fantasy narrative puzzle game blending item identification and deduction. Manage a mysterious shop, expose lies using the Craftsman’s Manual, and send robots on text-roguelite wild adventures. Shape fates across 20 days to unlock 4 endings and Day 21.

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Feier Games
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About the Game

"The Curiosity Clerk" is a narrative puzzle game that seamlessly blends Victorian fantasy with item identification and psychological deduction.

Amidst the swirling industrial smog, you take the helm of a mysterious curiosity shop. Facing eccentric visitors, each harboring deep secrets, the bizarre artifacts in your hands will become the ultimate keys to altering their destinies.

Key Features

🎭 The Map of Fate: 20 Days of Multi-Branching Judgment

During your 20-day tenure, every artifact you hand over will trigger a massive butterfly effect. Your choices and moral resolve will steer you toward vastly different endings on the Judgment Day of Day 20:

🏆 【The Royal Purveyor】
🖤 【The Fallen Dealer】
🔍 【The New Master of the Gallery】
⚖️ 【The Ordinary Shopkeeper】

👥 Tales of the Mortal World: The Interwoven Karma of a Victorian Town

Beyond the storefront lies a world turbulent with industrial pollution. Every transaction you make ripples across a hidden web of human relationships:

🧪 The Scholar & Wilderness Exploration
⛰️ The Alpinist’s Sin and Salvation
📖 The Seminarist’s Crossroads
🖼️ High Society Intrigue and Swaps

🔍 Daytime Scavenging & Wilderness Exploration: Rich Strategic Puzzles

The game features not only a gripping narrative but also highly replayable logic deduction and collection mechanics:

🃏 5x5 Matrix Card Scavenging
🤖 Automaton's Text Adventure
🐶 The Puppy’s "Calming Space"

🌌 Nightfall Visitors: Blind Box Deals Ruling "Past" & "Future"

As night falls, mysterious visitors knock on your gallery door with absolute karmic demands:

👁️ The Midnight Merchant: A classic authenticity test. Cross-reference the "Craftsman’s Manual" with his cryptic lore to spot flaws, expose his lies, and win rare curios.
🔮 The Mysterious Witch: Submit items that align with historical logic to receive prophecies—she will foretell the traits or the exact grid coordinates of tomorrow's key items.
🧙‍♂️ The Dark Mage: Demanding a unique, irreplaceable artifact, he will light the beacon for your main storyline quest.

👁️‍🗨️ The Vanished Day 21

Once you have traveled through the four rivers of fate and unlocked all salvation achievements, the dust-laden Day 21 will quietly dawn. Are you ready to uncover the ultimate secret of this shop?

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