It's 1998, and the record is wrong. You're the researcher who sets it straight.
The free demo is live on Windows and macOS. It includes a guided warm-up and two full cases:
- The Glass Garden - a Cleveland reissue label needs the true credits of a 1970s Buffalo prog band whose sleeves are full of pseudonyms and misprints.
- The Ardmore Pictures - a film archive needs the true credits of four 1951-53 studio pictures, but the blacklist filled the title cards with fronts and borrowed names.
You get a period search engine and a desk full of webpages, Usenet posts, zines, liner notes and clippings. You read, you cross-reference, and then you fill in the master credit sheet in three parts: who was credited, what really happened, and who really did the work.
No twitch, no timers, no fail state. Corrections confirm in batches, and the name and the reason both have to check out, so you can't guess your way through.
This is where I need you. I'm one person, and the cases still to come are shaped by what you tell me: which searches felt fair, which deductions landed, and where a case wanted one more clue. The discussion boards are open and I read everything.
Set the Record Straight is a work of fiction. All characters, bands, songs, films, studios and publications in it are invented for its puzzles.
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