About This Game

One city. One story. And more than meets the eye.

Hanau, around 1900.

Fifteen-year-old Karl has only recently moved to the city and is trying to find his place in a new life. But before long, he encounters rumors, conflicting stories and events that do not seem to add up.

What begins as an ordinary fresh start soon turns into a search for clues through the streets of Hanau.

Echoes of Hanau is a story-driven third-person mystery adventure that combines a fictional crime story with a carefully researched historical setting.

Explore Hanau around 1900

Discover a digitally reconstructed historical game world and explore Hanau’s former Jewish Quarter, its buildings, workshops, shops and residents.

Historical sources and research form the foundation of a world that is more than just a backdrop — it becomes an essential part of the story.

Follow the Clues

Talk to residents, investigate your surroundings and gather information.

Not every statement is true. Not every rumor is harmless.

Connect the dots, consider different perspectives and uncover what is really happening behind the events around you.

Solve Puzzles and Investigate Your Surroundings

Clues can be hidden in conversations, objects or seemingly insignificant places.

Explore streets and buildings, combine information and use your powers of observation to uncover new leads.

A Mystery Story in a Historical Setting

Echoes of Hanau tells a fictional story set against a real historical background.

Along the way, Karl encounters different people, perspectives and social tensions. Antisemitic prejudice, rumors and propaganda become part of a story that increasingly raises the question of whom you can trust — and how words can shape beliefs and actions.

History Becomes Playable

Echoes of Hanau aims to make history not only something to learn about, but something to experience.

The game world is being created on the basis of historical research and developed together with experts, creative professionals and young people through selected projects and workshops.

At its core, Echoes of Hanau remains a game: explore, investigate, connect the clues and experience the story for yourself.