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山河旅探 - Murders on the Yangtze River cover art

山河旅探 - Murders on the Yangtze River

OMEGAMES STUDIO · 2024-01-30

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

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.

68
playing now
97%
positive of 21k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
16h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

68 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 68 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 5% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 422k–950k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 21,109 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 12 of 24 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

356212026-08-07 00:00 — 49 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 215 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 170 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 58 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 280 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 210 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 74 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 305 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 191 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 48 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 204 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 128 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 42 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 183 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 108 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 21 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 145 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 229 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 36 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 98 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 185 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 33 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 93 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 165 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 32 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 64 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 112 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 48 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 68 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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).

Twitch viewers

502026-08-26 19:15 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (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

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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