Happy Mystery Monday!
The Steam Summer Sale will be running until July 11th, and there are lots and lots of killer deals on mystery games this time around!
If you need help spotting them, you can read my guide here.
Or, if you’d like to support the developers in our community…
Here are 9 games from members of our Mystery Gamedev community that are currently on sale for 60% off or more:
Birth ME Code
The second entry of the Abime Series. Play as the mastermind in a death game where you must find the traitor while concealing your identity. Six hours, one school, six deaths. Nine participants fight for survival: it's kill or be killed, trust or deceive, escape or die.
Blankspace
Blankspace is an escape room visual novel with point-and-click elements. Interact with Beryl, investigate your surroundings, solve puzzles, and find your way out of a strange-looking room!
Head AS Code
The first entry of the Abime Series. Eight captives must cooperate or compete to escape an underground subway under the manipulation of a dangerous psychopath. Can you really trust anyone? What about yourself? And what is the meaning of a good ending? Is reaching one even possible?
Methods: The Detective Competition
One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.
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Uncover the mystery behind each of the group's hidden motives and lost memories. What brings them together? What happened to the outside world, and who is The Botfly Killer that haunts their nightmares?
SoulSet
SoulSet is a Mystery/Romance Visual Novel, in which you can try to avoid death and pursue a relationship with both male and female characters. You play as Mariko, who finds herself trapped in an eerie mansion with 5 other people who claim to have no recollection of their past. Who will you trust?
SYNESTHESIA
🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀『SYNESTHESIA』is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...
The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
The VII Enigma
Fate, love, death... Can the enigma be solved? 『The VII Enigma』is a character-driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Set in a shadowy world of dystopian conspiracy, you must defy the fabric of reality, navigating the desperate path to the 'true end' against the tyranny of time itself.
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