Telltale Games has released a new trailer and a batch of new screenshots from their upcoming puzzling adventure game, Puzzle Agent.

Puzzle Agent promises to deliver “intriguing mystery with brain-teasing challenges” when it becomes available for the PC, Mac and WiiWare later this month for $9.95. The game comes from the mind of Graham Annable (the creator of the Grickle series of comics and animations and the publisher’s first Art Director) who lists the Professor Layton games as an inspiration.

The game sees players stepping into the role of Agent Tethers in the town of Scoggins, Minnesota, as he solves puzzles and discovers clues about what’s going on. But more about that a little later.

In case you missed the news, Puzzle Agent is the first game in the publisher’s new Game Pilot Programme. Telltale Games hope to use this programme to “apply [their] creativity and innovation to different kinds of games, then release the result as a pilot, similar to pilot episodes on TV.”

Here’s a little bit more about the game:

“Special Agent Nelson Tethers, the sole member of the FBI’s Puzzle Research division, is on his way to the icy heart of the Midwestern United States to investigate the apparent stoppage of all production at the Scoggins Erasers Company—the exclusive eraser provider for the White House. No one is really sure why the citizens of this sleepy, snow-covered town have become almost paralyzed while attempting to accomplish simple day-to-day tasks; it’s up to Special Agent Tethers to unravel the source of this madness, and get the factory pumping out its much-needed erasers.”

Watch the new trailer below to see what this “puzzling adventure with a twist” is all about, before browsing through a selection of new screenshots from the game after that.