App Store Editors’ Notes

Amazing visual novel - Death Note meets Zero Escape

If you enjoy visual novels, specifically games such as the Zero Escape series, Phoenix Wright, or Dagonronpa, you’ll most likely love this game To me it feels like a mix of Death Note, Zero Escape, and Fatal Frame, mixed into a Visual Novel style. The art style is beautiful, music fits the scene’s mood perfectly, and the story and mystery kept me enticed all the way through. The game also likes to change and pan the camera angle, or zoom in/out on different characters to make the image less static and more interesting to look at. This is a hidden gem for sure, and one of my favorite visual novel style games period. 100% worth buying.

Great Story and Music

Remember how superstitions were said to largely be a thing of the past due to limited communication technology? Remember the Oulja board and talk of possession? This game touches on mass hysteria and the psyche of the characters involved in the Seven Mysteries of Hojo. There’s a whole lot of reading, but it’s totally worth it. The twists and betrayals were pretty surprising, but it all gets tied together and the ending makes complete sense. I just wish there were more routes where you could use the curses more.

I wish more people knew of this game.

Majority of Square Enix games are bangers and half of them aren’t advertised and mainly people who are closely following SE content will find out or a friend telling them. This hidden gem of a game is a great puzzle game. More fun to have people to voice act with you for the dialogue which makes this a good game to stream, the puzzles are very creative as you can tell from the prologue itself (Shogo as the main character until you unlock the path screen)

Delightful

I got this to play through October in the middle of the night and it set the mood perfectly. I was apprehensive at the start of the game and thought it might be a bit cheesy but the story picks up quickly and hits hard. I’ve finished the entire game and the story still lingers on my mind. If you like story based games I would highly recommend.

Astonishing

The game itself runs very smooth, but it may vary depending on how old your device is (mine is recent). Story is very well played out, true horror game vibes. Never bought a mobile game before but this changed that! Definitely reccomend to those into Serial Experiment's Lain, kinda gives off that aesthetic.

Must have

An amazing adventure visual novel with deep characters and an original plot. Runs great on ios, with easy to manage touchscreen interfaces. The story is about 10 hours long, and manages to keep you coming back. Soundtrack is catchy too. One of my best purchases here, must have.

Amazing Game!

I honestly did not expect much from this game but it was absolutely fantastic. After beating it, I'm looking for other games to play that are like it but there is nothing else that stands up to it. Very very solid story and gameplay!

This game is underrated

I rarely buy games, but this one is worth the money. The plot are good, the art are amazing, had me cry over some chapter. Overall, I hope this game would be more popular cause it deserves the recognition.

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