Emerald City Confidential is a third-person, mouse-driven adventure game in which the player must solve various puzzles and follow certain procedures in order for the linear storyline to proceed.

The game is set in the magical land of Oz, created by L. Frank Baum, as put through the gritty filter of 1940s film noir, with harsh city streets, grey rainy skies, femmes fatales, tough guys, trenchcoats, fedoras and plot twists.

[1] The game follows the protagonist Petra, Emerald City's only private eye, as she is approached by a strange woman named Dee Gale.

What starts off as a simple missing person case soon takes Petra deep into the seedy underbelly of the Emerald City's criminal underground and beyond.

Background art was done by John Green, the artist and co-creator (with Dave Roman) of the graphic novels Teen Boat!