
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

Genres
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 71 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
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!
7n请99
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!
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, Simplified Chinese
Hours played at review time, across 71 reviews with recorded playtime.
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群像推理视觉小说,通关时长约10小时。 一百名侦探在神秘大赛中同台竞技,而大赛谜题出自一百名罪犯。比赛共五大关,两边按排名逐级淘汰,最终回是最强侦探和最强罪犯的较量,赢家可以拿走一百万美金,罪犯获胜还可额外获得假释。玩家需要跟随不同角色的视角,在比赛中破解谜题,为了金钱或其他理由击败你的对手,或者另辟蹊径寻找大赛的幕后主使,当然,和你的临时搭挡搞好关系也很重要。 画风又怪又酷,美术设计独特,音乐带感。人物设定完整,有细致的设定和赛前采访,还有人气角色片段集。每个人物都有独特的魅力。既有严肃的正义执行者,也有不断在比赛现场讲冷笑话的乐子人,更有比罪犯还暴力的疯子侦探。虽然部分推理不算出彩,但最终大关超燃。整体文本流畅,连一些双关语、谐音梗都很好的翻译了,读起来非常舒服。 最喜欢的角色是海尼和罗埃尔,帅气姐姐杀我。另外,没想到在侦探游戏里也能磕上CP。[spoiler]埃什顿和惨惨太配了,你们一定要搭档一辈子;7xx你这家伙速速跟尼尔告白,除了她没有人能受得了你的鸭子笑话。[/spoiler]
很棒的游戏!本地化做的非常棒,文本也很有趣,久违的开始食用异性恋产品。。。好吃好吃!
没有很多硬核的推理,但是故事情节真的蛮出彩,比起推理视觉小说更多像是一场群像冒险;人物刻画也不错,在有这么多角色的同时能把握住所有人的闪光点,同时让他们变得值得喜欢和印象深刻是不容易能够做到的事情。 游戏的幽默也非常不错,但是中文翻译不尽能传达,尽管已经翻译得很好了,贡献了一些非常不错的翻译(772的某句台词)。虽然有时候还会有明显的错误,例如有一段是说(大意):“我宁愿看湿油漆一边风干一边报税”但是被翻译成了“我宁愿一边报税一边看湿油漆风干”。很细微的差错但是几乎都能看出来,如果不是中文真的可读性更高,而我恰好又不想读英文的小蝌蚪线条,我一定会用英文玩。
优秀的音乐,别具一格的画风 虽然前期的迷题和剧情差强人意,勉强及格 但后期的剧情又很好的弥补了这一点 总之就是很推荐
哇这是什么画风好雷,哇这是什么谜题好荒唐,哇这是什么翻译我怎么看不懂,有时看不懂的翻译和看不懂的立绘放一起更看不懂了。 可是,可是,我为什么停不下来——真的太爽了!每个章节都很短,多次转换视角也保持了新鲜感,什么是群像,这就是最牛的群像!记人都记疯了,但是每个角色都很有特点,老猫斯莱克斯,小丑7某某,最强王者红色七月,新人尼尔……还有那些名次不高的侦探。即使高名次侦探如此强大,你也根本不会忽视他们身边较弱的搭档,你甚至可能会很喜欢他们(很喜欢恩斯)。前面一直在渲染第一的红色七月如何如何强大无人能敌,但却没有选择让她占去游戏里的大部分篇幅,她在游戏里的戏份可谓刚刚好。进入第六大关的反转更是惊艳。 后来知道文本绘画音乐制作全部都是作者一个人完成的,震撼我的内心。写过东西的人都应该知道,光是这个体量的文本和角色数量,是什么含义,更别说玩完游戏还有一大堆番外售后给玩家复盘。对我来说很鼓舞我自己。 啥也别说了,牛就完了。
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特别对我电波的作品!角色塑造都很有特点,通关后劲非常大,值得一夸的是文案简练不繁琐看的很舒服,期待续作澳大利亚!
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