A Night at Moka Efti is a free adventure game set in the nightclub from the series Babylon Berlin. You play a journalist following the clues to a mysterious case at the club, and the store page asks the question the whole game rests on: can you trust your memories?

Steam 250 week chart: #36, up 13 places, score 7.13 from 31 reviews, released 10 September 2026. Free to play. Chart position via Steam 250 week top 50.

Key features

Funded by public broadcasters, not a games publisher

The Steam listing credits ARD Gaming and Suedwestrundfunk as publishers — German public broadcasting. That changes what the game is for: with no revenue target, it can be a free 1930s detective piece of exactly the length the story needs, which is a scope almost no commercial adventure game is allowed.

An unreliable narrator as a puzzle mechanic

Making the player’s own memory the thing under investigation means the evidence can contradict itself without the game cheating. In a detective story, that is the difference between deduction and a checklist.

Accessibility built in rather than added

The Steam page lists captions, camera comfort, colour alternatives, adjustable difficulty, keyboard-only and mouse-only options, and playable without timed input. Public-broadcast funding tends to come with accessibility obligations, and here they are visible in the feature list.

The honest caveat

Only 31 reviews, and a free game’s score is always softer than a paid one’s because nobody is judging value. Steam’s content descriptors flag crime investigation, psychological distress, and alcohol and drug consumption in a 1930s nightclub. Only English and German are supported, and the game is a short single-player piece tied to a television series rather than a standalone campaign.

Where to find it

A Night at Moka Efti is free on Steam, developed by Paintbucket Games and published by ARD Gaming and Suedwestrundfunk. Steam store page.