History VideoGame / DetectiveDiTheSilkRoseMurders

''Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders'' is a mystery AdventureGame made by Nupixo Games. It was funded Website/{{Kickstarter}} on March 27th, 2015, and released on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on May 1st, 2019.

Taking place in Medieval Imperial China, during the reign of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_dynasty Tang dynasty]], the player is placed in shoes of the historical Chinese folk hero [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di_Renjie Di Renjie]], a magistrate tasked with uncovering the truth behind a recent string of murders in the capital. As politics surrounding the Empress Wu's recent coronation come to a boil, Di realizes it's not only his reputation at stake...

!!It includes the following tropes:
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The game opens with an open confession that while the plot and characters are based on real historical events and persons, they are also rendered through a heavily fictitious lens. Most notably, Di Renjie is regularly noted by other characters to be quite young for an government official, and is presumably supposed to be somewhere in his late 20s/early 30s. In real life, Di Renjie was 60 years old in 690, the time when Wu Zetian assumed power as Empress.

* CallingCard: The titular silk roses, when the murder leaves the scene of the crime.
* TheCoroner: In the Department of Justice, this job is undertaken by Yao Qinan, a salty old official with thirty years of experience.

* DirtyCop: Di's predecessor, Liu Zelin, was not very sharp, extremely lazy, and not big on paperwork, worrying more about his reputation and political standing than doing any actual police work. Di, who went to school with him, can only recall him as a bully, and none of his former subordinates have anything good to say about him; most of them even express open relief that he has been removed from his post. On top of that, he went around blackmailing suspects and stealing family heirlooms from ''children'' to get another spy. He casts an especially large shadow over the first case Di investigates in the capital, as it happens to also be the last case Liu worked on, and Di is tasked with undoing the damage he did.

'''Deer:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Flawless deduction... detective.]]

Taking place in Medieval Imperial China, during the reign of the Tang dynasty, the player is placed in shoes of the historical Chinese folk hero Di Renjie, a magistrate tasked with uncovering the truth behind a recent string of murders in the capital. As politics surrounding the Empress Wu's recent coronation come to a boil, Di realizes it's not only his reputation at stake...

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The game opens with an open confession that while the plot and characters are based on real historical events and persons, they are also rendered through a heavily fictitious lense. Most notably, Di Renjie is regularly noted by other characters to be quite young for an government official, and is presumably supposed to be somewhere in his late 20s/early 30s. In real life, Di Renjie was 60 years old in 690, the time when Wu Zetian assumed power as Empress.

* DirtyCop: Di's predecessor, Liu Zelin, was not very sharp, extremely lazy, and not big on paperwork, worrying more about his reputation and political standing than doing any actual police work. Di, who went to school with him, can only recall him as a bully, and none of his former subordinates have anything good to say about him; most of them is even expressing open relief that he has been removed from his post. On top of that he went around blackmailing suspects and stealing family heirlooms from ''children'' to get another spy. He casts an especially large shadow over the first case Di investigates in the capital, as it happens to also be the last case Liu worked on, and Di is tasked with undoing the damage he did.
-->'''Yao:''' Thirty years I've worked at the Department of Justice. Magistrates come and go. And I've seen them all. Some were born enforcers, others born negotiators. A rare few had the gift of detection, while others preferred the path of least resistance. Liu Zelin was in a category of his own, a corrupt yet inept him [[GloryHound willing to do anything to advance his career]]. All of us here knew it, but none of us could prove it.\\

* DreamingTheTruth: [[spoiler:The RecurringDreams that Di has, is actually his subconscious trying to tell him that there was something he missed while investigating the case that made his career.]]

* EndOfAnEra: The older generation -- represented by Wu's ageing husband and Di's father -- have more or less been replaced, and their heirs are still getting comfortable with their new jobs. Naturally, various criminals take this opportunity to pounce.

* {{Nepotism}}: Liu Zelin, Di's incompetent and corrupt predecessor, is mentioned to have really only gotten his job as an investigative magistrate, because his father was a powerful minister.
* NeverOneMurder: Following the initial murder, Di discovers to his horror that the killer is picking up speed. His second case in the capital sees him having to investigate two murders, the other of which he discover in the course of investigating the first one.
* NonActionGuy: Di freely admits at several points that he though he has some interest in martial arts, he is hopelessly untalented at them and not very handy in fight at all. He very much prefers being a GuileHero.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Xu Dan, the father of the first victim, Linfei, has suffered an especially sad fate. Not only did he lose his wife and his eyesight in a fire, but on top of everything, his daughter ended up being brutally murdered.

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Sun Ying was so dedicated to Wu, that she was willing to commit ''suicide'' in order make the whole deception of Di that much more convincing.]]

'''Deer:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Flawless deduction... detective.]]
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* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:''Four'' of them actually. Before she became Empress, Wu personally handpicked four strong, beautiful, and intelligent young women to become the Silk Roses, training them into becoming her own squad of devoted and loyal assassins, who would use cunning, deception, and tenaciousness to get close to and eliminate her political enemies.]]

* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:''Four'' of them actually. Before she became Empress, Wu personally handpicked four strong, beautiful, and intelligent young women to become the Silk Roses, training them into becoming her own squad of devoted and loyal assassins, who would use cunning and tenaciousness to get close to and eliminate her political enemies.]]

'''Talking deer:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Flawless deduction... detective.]]

'''Deer:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Flawless deduction... detective.]]