Narrative deduction game TR-49 slated for Nintendo Switch

Today, Inkle announced that it’s putting TR-49 on Nintendo Switch. The title is due out on April 7, 2026.

TR-49 is a narrative deduction game in which you mess around with a strange old computer. The project was written and created by the award-winning team behind Heaven’s Vault, Overboard, and A Highland Song.

Here’s an official overview:

A voice is saying your name. A WWII-era machine, long hidden in a church basement, whirs to life. Through a crackling speaker a man asks you to find a stolen book. He only knows the title. Time is running out.

The machine, created by Bletchley Park engineers Cecil Caulderly and Beatrice Dooler, contains a vast archive of obscure books, letters, and journals fed in over the span of fifty years in an attempt to crack the code of reality. As their lives fell apart, the machine kept working.

Navigate the computer’s archive. Link its obscure texts and uncover its creators’ secrets. Communicate with the man behind the speaker to figure out your role in this mystery. Find the book at the core of the machine — before it’s too late.

Written and created by the award-winning team behind Heaven’s Vault, Overboard!, and A Highland Song, TR-49 takes inspiration from narrative deduction games like Type Help, Her Story, The Roottrees are Dead, and Return of the Obra Dinn, and from audio dramas like The Magnus Archives and ars PARADOXICA.

For a look at the game in action, watch the trailer below.

Official Trailer

This one will be sold digitally for $6.99. Head on over here for more Nintendo Switch coverage.