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Methods: The Illusion Murders

LockedOn Games · Erabit · 2024-04-21

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Apr 21, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Detective Red July must stop a serial killer who patterns his murders after optical illusions in this mystery visual novel set in the world of Methods.

86%
positive of 105 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 28,390 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

5
achievements tracked
80.7%
earned "Casefile One Complete"
67.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

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