
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
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When the protagonist wakes up, they find themselves lost in a different world. As they learn the words of the mysterious monsters that speak a strange language, they search for a way to escape.

In this alternate world, a different language is used. Players will interpret and dechiper characters' words through expressions, gestures and the objects they point to.

The language of this world isn’t as refined as human languages. One meaning is concentrated in one word, with almost no particles; a string of words conveys only a rough meaning.

This is a point-and-click adventure game. Players will investigate items to learn words or engage in conversation to progress.

Choices for actions are available at various points. Small changes in development, branching paths, or even instant death can occur.

Even if you reach a game over, you can retry from just before without any penalties.
There’s no affection management, and acquiring flags will unlock more choices. Players can freely jump back to previously encountered scenes from chapters and try again. Play comfortably and easily!

There are 20 types of mid-story endings (bad endings or unresolved problems).
There are a total of 17 endings, including character route endings and late-stage endings upon reaching Chapter 5.
*Note: There is a fake ending presented as a happy ending midway through the story, so please be careful not to misunderstand.

◆Playtime
It takes about 5 hours to complete one full playthrough of all routes.
*This game is designed with replayability in mind, where understanding character conversations may require re-watching scenes after filling up the dictionary.
◆Playing without sound is not recommended (There are sound-based effects).
Players who want to make the characters say funny things or try different playful approaches are also welcome to enjoy the game freely.
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Languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
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Hours played at review time, across 67 reviews with recorded playtime.
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i downloaded it for mr crawling and stayed for him
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I LOVE Homicipher, like most of the people, I mainly came here for Mister Crawling because he's so silly lolll BUT, looking through the community tab I feel so happy because a lot of the fans are lowkey so fun and creative and I love them <33
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Loved the concept of playing a high-stakes Duolingo session with monsters! The atmosphere is genuinely great. But calling this an Otome game is false. You never get past surface-level interactions with the characters, and the endings just sort of fizzle out. I guess the game mechanic is partially at fault for that. Though even with Mr. Crawling, the "romance" basically consists of him deciding not to murder you on sight. I would love to see a sequel though, perhaps with actual dark romance and romance options?
Its a cute otome, and i really enjoyed it. despite its intention to be a horror game, its the least scary game ive ever played lol. and its actually pretty easy to decipher the language. its fun and highly replayable lolol.. i was expecting it to be more scary though, but im pleasantly surprised. theres solid lore and good world building. despite the language not translating cleanly into english, thats actually what makes it the most fun. you have to think hard about the meanings of words.. and despite the tiny number of words in the otherworldly language all the monsters are very articulate. this game is exceptional.
Best VN game I've played so far, trying to decipher their language is a one of a kind idea. Highly recommended. P.S: I would definetely not call it as a romance game so if you looking for romance you looking to the wrong place.
this game is incredible. the concept, the execution, the character design, everything. yes we all love mr crawling. the linguistic features of this game is what initially drew me towards it and i was not disappointed at all. the added horror concept of not fully understanding what’s going on and it being fully up to you to understand the context makes it that much eerier. i was so interested in this game i sat down and boom 6 hours passed playing it 😭😭 definitely recommend but if ur scared of things like momo the character design might not be for you (i am scared of momo and mr scarletella’s design actually freaked me out a little)
Mr crawling is the best! he makes me so so so so happy whenever he appears and is sooooooo cuteeeeeeeee!! so many endings and stuff and looks super cool. love the variety of options and characters, as well as the fact you actually have to use your brain too decipher the language!
Played the game because I thought it was similar to Chants of Senaar and yes, it is! However, there is no verification system for the language aspect (so you just need to use the guide to verify your guesses as to what the words mean). Also, some of the "words" may be in phrases or sentences than a 1 word-1 meaning thing, but it's not difficult to figure it out because of context clues and the character's facial expression (which I felt Chants of Senaar was lacking). I like that this takes a step further from Chants of Senaar in using the language to help you get through the story. For the story and atmosphere, it combines VN horror and otome/romance. There are a lot of endings and routes but the game has a chapter/scene system so you can just jump to the scene to make different choices to complete the gallery or get to the different routes/endings. Overall, if you like: - language deciphering games (Chants of Senaar and the like) - otome/romance - horror then yes, buy this game!
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