
One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.
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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): 0.14/day in the week to Sep 10 → 0.43/day in the week after.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.67/day in the week to Aug 4 → 0.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 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

The first game in the Methods series.
One hundred detectives compete against each other in a mysterious competition, solving mysteries created by criminal masterminds.
The detective who wins receives one million dollars and the opportunity of a lifetime. If a criminal wins, however, they will also receive a million dollars... and parole, no matter the severity of their crime.
Methods is a visual novel with simple crime investigation gameplay where you examine evidence and answer multiple-choice questions about the solution.
It includes 100 chapters totaling 139K words, taking approximately 10 hours to play through (though that varies greatly depending on your reading speed).

Original soundtrack
Over 25 interactive crime scenes
CG gallery
Expressions gallery
Backgrounds gallery
Music room
Bios
Character Interviews
Behind-the-scenes

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Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 71 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
标题误导性太强了,说是侦探大赛但是案件水平可以用构思来形容,前两个赛区的流程十分之无聊,配上各种刻意的行奇作怪角色,低质的案件和离奇恐怖的画风都让我特别想退款,byd全篇长得最正常的人是结尾案件的太妃糖太太,后面剧情还算有意思,最后一个案件质量终于从构思一坨成长为了正常水平,作者这案件设计能力也算致敬乔尼乔斯达了,精彩的部分全在于凶手的盘外招,然后就是剧情设定搞得又大又空的,说是参赛者双方共两百人还有各种工作人员,实则出场人物一半都不到还有一堆凑数角色,主办方也不知道在想啥,红色七月这轮椅英雄不用非要搞个兵行险着,不知道对他们的目标有啥好处,还有角色档案能力图也是想一出是一出的,往期比赛胜者的身份和低下的能力根本对不上吧
极其精彩的群像剧,但如果只是冲着推理来的可以跳过了
推理一般,但是剧情群像写得很不错的推理类视觉小说,画风一开始觉得有点潦草但看久了也是别有一番风味呀,很独具一格的画风但是把每个人的形象特点都画得很鲜明,总之推荐!
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Languages: English, Simplified Chinese
Hours played at review time, across 71 reviews with recorded playtime.
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推理部份太失望
玩了一半,内容推理性不是很大,但是故事叙述以及美术设计都好有意思。 前期有些许无聊,但是后面越来越有意思了,每个人物个性也很鲜活且“古怪”,我可太喜欢群像了!
好玩,特别好玩,很有趣,不难,作为视觉小说来说棒极了。很喜欢7某人和斯莱克斯,7nell和埃惨以及罗埃尔小情侣都挺美味的。期待新作后续斯莱克斯的出场。
电波系轻小说,美式弹丸,离散特征型人物,美术与台词风格化,然无核诡、无推理、无表达,一个由无数滑稽谜题构成的无意义的怪诞世界,似乎在嘲讽推理游戏的人工性,展示了一个无理性与不可认识的现实。然而单纯的模式反叛突破不了类型预测的常规,最后还是回到常见日宅式角色驱动的陈词滥调。制作者像是没想过和接受者合作,只是沉浸在信马由缰的书写里。不认真对待虚构中的人与事,那么就必然不可能获得共情。 跟新手下棋,初见唬人,实则大愚若智。 不妄想结尾出大了,被推理骗进来,及时止损。
7nell仙品,值得一看的侦探小说
Loved every second of playing this. This had a unique voice, sense of humour, and art style with an intriguing take on death games with the Detectives vs Criminals concept. All the characters were so charming, especially Detective [Insert Number Here]. The mysteries themselves could have been more complex, I feel, but I have a feeling that their relative simplicity was perhaps the point(implication of the detectives' and criminals' competence?). I was hooked from beginning to end. Very well done!
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