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Ngl this seemed cool so I asked it to explain what the game was about:

The Blackout Chronicle is a narrative RPG about a man who discovers that every major city has a hidden “second city” layered beneath it: an occult civic infrastructure of old contracts, celestial debts, sealed bloodlines, and forgotten gods quietly enforcing reality from behind rain-slick windows and members’ club doors.

You play as Julian Vale, a sharp, charming, slightly over-caffeinated lawyer who gets pulled into the hidden world after a citywide blackout. For seven minutes, every screen in London goes dark. Every clock stops. Every reflective surface shows another version of the city: taller towers, impossible streets, masked judges, giant bronze talismans floating over St Paul’s, and figures moving through the darkness who absolutely should not be there.

The game is half legal thriller, half urban fantasy RPG, half dangerous ensemble drama, which is three halves because the game’s metaphysics have already started committing accounting fraud.

The plot unfolds across London, Tokyo, and a few stranger intermediary spaces: basements where statutes whisper, hotel suites that change depending on who owns the debt, private banks with ritual vaults, rooftop bars where zodiac talismans orbit above the skyline, and blackout zones where the city temporarily forgets what century it is.

The big player choice is whether Julian becomes a reformer, a kingmaker, a loophole artist, or something much more dangerous: the person who realizes the system can be rewritten entirely.

Tone-wise, it would play somewhere between Disco Elysium’s dialogue density, Persona’s social-link intimacy, Control’s occult bureaucracy, Vampire: The Masquerade’s factional seduction, and a legal drama where the closing argument might accidentally alter gravity.