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If you have a Nintendo Switch, the two Famicom Detective Club games are not only nice classic murder-mystery-style adventure games, but they’re really interesting historical games in a style that many people here (I mean, the English-speaking world) wouldn’t be familiar with because so few games in the style were translated - menu-parser-based 80s Japanese adventure games.

(The games are The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind - though the second game is a prequel which was released later)

There’s some “old school” obtuse logic involved - including something I always hated but can’t really get too upset about given the game’s age - certain dialogue options requiring you to repeatedly ask characters about a certain topic multiple times in a row until they “relent”. Nowadays when games do that they have the decency to have some kind of clue about it.

They’re menu-parser-based games (i.e. you have a menu on the left with stuff like “Talk/Show/Look”) but do add some point-and-click elements kind of like Phoenix Wright if you’ve played that.

I thought I would revive this to see if there were any new recommendations?

The Case of the Golden Idol.

Thanks Vegetable Party,

I am thinking of checking out Chinatown Detective Agency.

Best,
Abhi