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山河旅探 - Murders on the Yangtze River

OMEGAMES STUDIO · 2024-01-30

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 31, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 31, 2024 (Mac), Q3 2026 (PlayStation 4), Q3 2026 (PlayStation 5)

"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

山河旅探 - Murders on the Yangtze River is a 2024 Adventure, Indie, RPG game priced at $14.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Overwhelmingly Positive (97% of 21238 reviews).

48
playing now
97%
positive of 21k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
16h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

48 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 48 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 989 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~124/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (5,566 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 28,914 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 425k–956k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 21,238 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2026-06-10) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5.4k5.4k20242026Week of 2024-01-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5,431 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 135 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,888 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 812 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 672 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 408 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 735 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 349 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 314 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 307 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 354 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 701 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 458 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 450 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

234202026-09-15 13:00 — 169 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 23 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 71 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 226 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 53 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 79 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 116 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 50 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 69 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 171 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 54 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 25 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 136 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 138 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 28 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 153 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 227 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 28 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 88 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 197 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 28 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 56 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 117 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 48 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.7k76Feb 2024Aug 2026Feb 2024 — avg 1,659 · peak 4,953Mar 2024 — avg 698 · peak 2,318Apr 2024 — avg 363 · peak 1,105May 2024 — avg 311 · peak 1,344Jun 2024 — avg 204 · peak 973Jul 2024 — avg 347 · peak 971Aug 2024 — avg 178 · peak 495Sep 2024 — avg 168 · peak 631Oct 2024 — avg 148 · peak 471Nov 2024 — avg 100 · peak 455Dec 2024 — avg 189 · peak 537Jan 2025 — avg 256 · peak 1,478Feb 2025 — avg 380 · peak 1,381Mar 2025 — avg 172 · peak 541Apr 2025 — avg 123 · peak 393May 2025 — avg 120 · peak 394Jun 2025 — avg 172 · peak 676Jul 2025 — avg 190 · peak 593Aug 2025 — avg 129 · peak 394Sep 2025 — avg 126 · peak 453Oct 2025 — avg 124 · peak 463Nov 2025 — avg 100 · peak 377Dec 2025 — avg 86 · peak 248Jan 2026 — avg 156 · peak 695Feb 2026 — avg 113 · peak 324Mar 2026 — avg 96 · peak 297Apr 2026 — avg 76 · peak 235May 2026 — avg 81 · peak 237Jun 2026 — avg 138 · peak 443Jul 2026 — avg 128 · peak 348Aug 2026 — avg 122 · peak 396
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$8.992024-01-312026-08-082024-01-31 — best price $12.742024-03-14 — best price $12.742024-04-23 — best price $12.742024-06-27 — best price $11.992024-08-26 — best price $11.992024-10-09 — best price $11.992024-11-27 — best price $11.242024-12-19 — best price $11.242025-01-26 — best price $10.492025-03-13 — best price $10.492025-04-24 — best price $10.492025-06-20 — best price $9.742025-06-27 — best price $9.742025-07-28 — best price $10.492025-09-14 — best price $9.742025-09-29 — best price $9.742025-11-10 — best price $9.742025-12-18 — best price $9.742026-01-13 — best price $9.292026-03-19 — best price $9.292026-04-22 — best price $14.992026-05-05 — best price $14.992026-05-22 — best price $14.992026-06-11 — best price $8.992026-06-25 — best price $8.992026-07-25 — best price $8.992026-08-08 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
91.4%
earned "Here's Proof"
20.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-03-15 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGDramaIndieLogicPuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveLore-RichHistorical

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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