
Methods: The Canada Files is a mystery visual novel. You play as a team of eccentric detectives in a mysterious crime-solving competition. To solve each mystery, you must use your team member’s unique detective methods, refute faulty theories with evidence, and find out the truth!
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.57/day in the week to Aug 10 → 0.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Welcome to the mysterious Canadian detective competition! Find clues, interview suspects, and find out the truth with your teammates' unique methods!
Six Files await you in the full game, containing convoluted puzzles from Canada’s most devious masterminds. Each one takes around 2-4 hours to complete depending on your skill of deduction…
Your time starts… now.
Yours,
The Game-master

Original soundtrack
Dynamic Storytelling
Rich Character Depth
Distinctive Artwork
Immersive Game World
Prequel to Methods: The Detective Competition
Playing Methods: The Detective Competition first is highly recommended, but not required to understand the story.
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Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
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Reviews
Themes across 63 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
最后一道谜题还算有趣!
拉里卡我们还能再见吗拉里卡
相比前作,省略了大量剧情,更像一个推理游戏 一开局就是从大赛中途开的,以拉里卡及其队友的身份,亲自破解比赛中的谜题 但也因为如此,这一作角色塑造没那么清晰 很多角色需要从对内沟通里补足(这就导致有些生硬) 最起码一周目打完,对主角团的各位,并不是每个都了解并喜欢, 本来很期待梅丽返场,但也是很平淡地只客串了一个小关,没有看到她更多的性格展现或背景 前面关卡的有些题目比较模棱两可,理解了案情但不理解问题,知道答案但不知道要对应什么线索,不看攻略的话,有点浪费时间 最精彩的是第六大关,案件、剧情和微恐的氛围都很到位, 但关于乔安是如何在黑手里获胜的,以及第六大关最后的胜负,我觉得还是有点争议 非常期待探案法的下一季, 对于下一季,更希望看到完整的剧情呈现,最起码不要为了玩法省略掉剧情
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Languages: English, Simplified Chinese
Hours played at review time, across 63 reviews with recorded playtime.
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填了前作一些坑,ui和表现力都比前作好了很多。很不错的轻度推理小品。
加拿大之战第四轮的难度明显比美国之战要高,但第六轮的难度不如美国之战。加拿大结局赢家真是赢得漂亮!因为有没有玩过前作的,就不剧透赢家了。但也看得出,如果是安纳戴恩侦探进入第六轮,则侦探必定能赢,也铺垫了美国之战的结局!音乐7/10分,剧情10/10分,画风依然抽象。
神
写给我列表里所有将该游戏加入愿望单的小伙伴:买吧,求你了,连隔壁侦探大赛一块买(
虽然很推荐这个作品 但是结局我很不喜欢!虽然大概知道讲述的是什么意思,但是不剧透的讲,这结局就是好像说了也好像没说。 这里面的故事诡计写的很不错,希望下一部故事能更好。
伟大的视觉小说
延续了侦探大赛出类拔萃的群像刻画,这样的体量能塑造出几十个各有特点的人物,同时弥补前作案件很潦草的缺点,推理的质感靠搜查质询举证等环节有了大幅提升。确实有弹丸和逆转味,但正是跟分别因为被剧透和嫌无聊被我搁置的这两部比,探案法在我心里的独一无二才显现出来,这是一部就算早已知道主角会失败但还是会因为她的巨大魅力而继续玩下去的游戏,且队友们贯穿整个探案过程的有趣相处也使人根本不觉得无聊,女性角色的占比也应该得到重点表扬。玩完认真看了幕后花絮,作者对作品的用心、对人物的爱和对玩家的尊重,通过自己的才华完美地呈现了出来。纵然有瑕疵,但我还是会说这是完美的游戏。
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