Crimson Rain is an experimental noir-detective style puzzle narrative game, where every character is identical, and ambiguous in terms of race, gender, class, sexuality, etc. This is a means to address the stereotyping and bias rooted in classic detective fiction, and concerns about its perpetuation in detective games. Players are instead tasked to deduce the narrative solely through characters’ actions, by observing them with the manipulation of time through a custom-made alternative controller.