
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.29/day in the week to Sep 11 → 3.43/day in the week after.
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Sums Steam only; Xbox, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $8.99−40% | 21.3Kreviews | 97% | — | $4.3M |
| $19.99 | 2ratings | 50% | — | not modelled | |
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Themes across 973 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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Bought this game for less than ten euros on a sale, thought I might give it a chance. It turns out it might be one of the greatest gems the crime mystery visual novel genre has to offer. It wears its influences firmly on its sleeve; mechanically, it is a very close match to the Ace Attorney: Investigations duology, and Ace Attorney is listed as an influence by the authors of Murders on the Yangtze River. However, to me, this is a clear case of the student outclassing the master, with MotYR offering a tighter, more grounded narrative. AA often relies on the supernatural for its cases, and has a romanticized view of the role of truth in the court system. MotYR's overarching mystery is grounded to a real world injustice, and understands far better than AA the limitations of the court system to enact actual justice. Its historical setting between 1900 and 1912 is executed with care to detail and willingness to teach. The murder mysteries are constructed in a complex but believable manner. I was so hooked I took multiple breaks in between playing, already mourning that I had played through more than half the game. I hope the indie devs stick to their guns, because they demonstrated exceptional talent with this game.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 5.29/day in the week to Jul 26 → 6.71/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 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.
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Languages: Simplified Chinese*, English, Traditional Chinese*languages with full audio support
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 974 reviews with recorded playtime.
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If you're into the licence's game Ace Attorney, I cannot see how you can go wrong with that title. It got everything to let you have a good time. The story is truly well-written. It brings some history facts and medecine explanation which make it even more interesting and allow to understand fully what happen and why some characters are acting like they do. The logic that have been apply in the investigation part works pretty well, and it's entertaining to play along. If one day, the studio decide to give another shot, I would gladly go back to a Shen's adventure.
很好玩,游戏剧情特别好,让人玩的停不下来。对我这种喜欢玩探案游戏但又不爱深度思考的玩家特别友好,探案过程通过剧情加上简单思考就基本能解决谜题,不会无缘无故卡关很久,谜题也都逻辑自洽。再加上搭配上近代中国史好几章都感动的落泪。希望以后能再出续作。
评分8/10 非常有意思的中式推理游戏 千万不要被宣传图上的辩论开始误导 以为只是一个逆转裁判的国风模仿品 这游戏越玩到后面越让我惊叹制作组的格局真的是打开了 前期藏了大量的伏笔和细节在最后都能回收这个已经打败了90%的推理作品了 细腻的水墨画风+每次切换地区的那个悠扬音乐+全程大量的配音内容+很多能体现出制作组很严谨的历史考据 带上最后一点点巧妙又不尴尬民族升华 真的很棒 最后的名单里制作组甚至把一些参考或者灵感来源都列出来了完全是没想到国内制作组能做到这样的格局 最后还是希望有更多人能来体验一下这款不错的国产游戏!
Very good game! Loved the art, historical references, mysteries, and over all experience!
Really great game and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I especially really love the time period it is set in, and while the authors do take /some/ liberty introducing future subjects (eg rifling forensics) I think that 99% they stayed very true to the setting. There is just something special about this time period where tradition meets modernity and all the struggles and advances that come with it. I also think the game's theme mostly centered around opium (can´t spoil too much) is of both great meaning to a chinese audience who I imagine knows both the pain and consequences first hand but also to us outside since we have only really heard surface level stories of it over here. I think the translation is also quite excellent for such a small studio, yes of course there are times where the translation is weird or it doesnt completely fit but it isnt game breaking and almost the entire game is fully understandable. The most major bug I had is that the videos in the game didnt play at all for me probably because I'm on linux, but well I could just watch them outside of the game so no great harm. I truly look forward to either more shen or other works from this studio :)
好玩,剧情线设置的很精彩,人物塑造得也很不错,阿福好可爱
這個好評是給最後一章的約瑟檢察官還有配音員的 語音有髒話 但字幕沒放 I'm a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ prosecutor.
很优秀很优秀,玩完非常感慨,游戏结合中国历史真的做的很好(玩完眼睛袅袅了)
有幸在国际禁毒日的时候看到这款游戏。推理还行,立意不错
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