Detective RPG 1940: Silver Screen Mirages is a cinematic, gender-neutral noir sandbox set in a hyper-dramatic 1947 Los Angeles. You play as the impeccably dressed but flat-broke head of The All-American Detective Agency, operating out of a rainy office in the very same Skid Row slums where you grew up. Your family sacrificed everything to give you an education, desperately wanting you to become a successful doctor or lawyer to pull them out of the gutter, but they abandoned you when you chose to chase a fool's dream instead—and looking at your empty pockets, they were completely right. Down to your last bottle of rye and struggling to pay Evelyn Harrington, your fiercely loyal, subtly stunning blonde assistant, you must pick a high-stakes case from your desk before midnight strikes and your lights get shut off for good.