ChopShop Inc.
An interactive automotive mystery and garage strategy game where you investigate Northline Auto’s buried past, manage a growing crew, take legal and criminal jobs, and shape one of nine possible outcomes.
What it does
### ChopShop Inc. is an interactive mystery first—and a garage strategy game where every decision becomes part of the case.
You inherit Northline Auto, a failing garage buried under debt, incomplete records, missing vehicles, and a history someone deliberately tried to erase.
...Then Mila Vey walks through the door.
Her arrival opens a trail of suspicious jobs, compromised ledgers, hidden relationships, unexplained payments, and evidence pointing toward a criminal operation that may still be active.
To discover the truth, you will need to question people, study records, connect evidence, follow inconsistencies, and decide who can be trusted. Conversations change according to your actions. Crew members remember how you treated them. Important information may be revealed, distorted, withheld, or permanently lost.
But Northline will not survive on investigation alone.
Take legitimate repair work or accept more dangerous contracts. Buy tools, rebuild vehicles, strip parts, improve the garage, recruit specialists, manage debt, and keep the operation moving while police heat continues to rise.
*Every choice creates consequences:*
- A profitable job may leave evidence behind.
- A loyal crew member may be hiding something.
- A missing vehicle may connect several people.
- A shortcut may save the garage while strengthening the case against you.
- The truth may be worth more as leverage than justice.
The story unfolds across five acts, but there is no final screen asking you to simply choose an ending. Your outcome is calculated from everything you did: the evidence you uncovered, the people you protected or betrayed, the condition of the garage, your finances, reputation, crew loyalty, criminal reach, and police heat.
*Nine outcomes are currently possible.*
Save Northline. Expose its past. Manipulate the people behind it. Take over the operation—or become the reason no one ever discovers the truth.
### Core gameplay
Investigate the mystery
Examine missing records, suspicious transactions, vehicle histories, private conversations, and physical evidence. Connect the right details before someone removes them—or removes you.
*Run Northline Auto*
Repair, rebuild, strip, hold, and sell vehicles while managing tools, expenses, debt, shop upgrades, and the daily survival of the garage.
*Choose your work*
Accept safe mechanical jobs, questionable contracts, or high-risk opportunities with larger rewards and much more dangerous consequences.
*Build your crew*
Recruit people with different skills, histories, motives, and limits. Loyalty must be earned, and trust can become your greatest advantage or your worst mistake.
*Control the heat*
Balance profit against exposure. Suspicious jobs, unresolved evidence, poor decisions, and careless crew management can strengthen the investigation against Northline.
*Shape the outcome*
There is no isolated final choice. The game remembers what you built, what you discovered, what you concealed, and who you became while doing it.
Who it helps
Built for players who enjoy: Interactive mysteries and investigative fiction Crime stories driven by choices and consequences Garage, business, and crew management Connecting evidence and uncovering hidden relationships Strategic decisions without obvious good or bad answers Characters who remember how they were treated Multiple outcomes shaped across the entire campaign