Indie studio, Skeletal Games launched a Kickstarter campaign for their reverse whodunnit, Spill the Bean and they need your help to meet their goal! In Spill the Beans, a secret recipe has been stolen and you’re charged with finding the culprit…trouble is, you’re the one whodunnit. Investigate, interrogate and manipulate your way to framing the perfect scapegoat in this reverse detective visual novel.
The Kickstarter campaign is set to run until August 6, 2025 with a funding goal of $20,291 USD! Alongside the campaign, players can now play a new expanded demo on Steam and itch.io!
About Spill the Beans
A cozy café. A stolen secret recipe. Five potential scapegoats. Spill The Beans is a modern fantasy reverse detective visual novel where you’re tasked with finding the culprit for your own crime.
The Familiar’s secret recipe has been stolen! You’re charged with finding the culprit for this heinous crime…only problem is, you’re the one whodunnit.
It’s now up to you to find the ideal scapegoat in this modern fantasy reverse detective visual novel. Investigate, interrogate and manipulate a colorful cast of characters and use their deepest, darkest secrets against them – it’s the perfect recipe for the ultimate blame game, but can you stomach the consequences?
Meet the Spill the Beans Scapegoats
In Spill the Beans you’ll interrogate suspects, affect their mood, present evidence, and maybe find out more than you bargained for.
Spill the Beans Key Features
- Investigate, interrogate, manipulate: a colorful cast of characters including a vampire, a skeleton and a cat – help them overcome their flaws and leave the café a better person, or enable their worst habits to bring about their own downfall
- Choose your accused: a replayable story that responds to your choices, with over 15 possible ways to complete the game
- Finest house blend: contains 20+ custom CGs and over 100 sprite variations to show the characters at their best and worst, plus an original soundtrack refined to bring out the essence of each and every character
- Be yourself, do crimes: customize your pronouns and let the characters get to know the real you
- Coffee connoisseur: collect achievements and unlock secret recipes for some fantastical drinks!
Learn More About the Dev, Skeletal Games
Skeletal Games is a small group of friends who decided to take their game jam project to another level. Split between the UK and Canada, they all share one common goal: making games about diverse, complicated characters. Also flirting with skeletons. That’s important too.
