Türkiye's answer to Disco Elysium just broke cover, featuring more lawyers, fewer cops, an indeterminate amount of communism and twin fistfuls of guilt and regret

Here are the two things I enjoyed most about visiting Istanbul a few years ago. One: the comingling of millennia of history and a patchwork of cultures at the meeting point between Asia and Europe, a city that has more compacted history in a square metre than most places do in a square mile, an endless festival of artistic and culinary pleasures. Two: there are like a billion cats everywhere.

Pera Coda—a Disco-Elysium-inspired "surreal narrative mystery" from Turkish studio Elyzio—promises to capture at least half of that...