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The Missing City Council
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About the game
It is a dark and stormy Monday evening in Loimijoki, a small town in Finland, and the City Council is meeting at six o'clock to decide on the zoning of your property. You have every reason to be there. You park, walk into the City Hall, a red brick block with a lot of 1970s brown in it, and find the lobby empty and silent. Then you notice that the front door lets people in but not out.
The councillors have to be somewhere. The building has four floors, a lift, a spiral staircase, a basement and plenty of locked doors, and the further you go the stranger it gets. The game calls itself a perfectly normal mystery, which it is not.
Ville Sundell, who signs as Solarius, wrote it first in Finnish and then translated it for Spring Thing 2026. It is short and forgiving: you can solve it in one sitting, and nothing you do can leave you stuck.
Playing it here
Click Play now and the story starts in the player. Everything is typed: write a
command after the > prompt and press Enter. The game is in English. There is
no score, only a clock in the status line that starts at 6:00 pm and moves on
with every turn.
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
n, s, e, w, ne, nw, se, sw |
walk; go southeast also works |
up / down (u / d) |
take the spiral staircase |
enter / exit somewhere |
go into a building, room or lift, and back out |
push button |
choose a floor in the lift |
look (l), examine (x) something |
look around, or look closer |
take, drop, open, put ... on |
the usual ways to handle things |
switch on / switch off something |
use the machines you find |
inventory (i) |
list what you are carrying |
save / restore |
keep your progress in this browser and load it back |
A few things worth knowing
Read the exits in the room list. Doors are listed as objects (a door to the
lift, a door to the garage), and most of them lead off diagonally, so
examine them and try enter.
Do more than look. Rooms are described in a line or two, and pushing or moving the furniture sometimes shows what a plain look does not.
Keep an eye on the clock. The time in the status line tells you how long the council has been missing.
Hints are in the author's repository. The game has no hint command, but a
full walkthrough is in the extras folder of the
game's repository on Codeberg.
Credits and licence
The Missing City Council was written by Ville Sundell and entered in Spring Thing 2026. It is released under the MIT licence, which also covers PunyInform, the library by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson that the game is built with. The cover art is not included here. The licence text is linked from this page.