
A secluded mountain resort, 10 friends, 1 murderer. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you solve various mysteries throughout the night. Will you be able to reach the truth and uncover the culprit’s identity? Or will your deductions lead you to blame someone completely innocent...?
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Story:
Saturday, October 30, 2010.
A group of ten friends gathers at a secluded mountain resort to spend the night of All Hallows' Eve together. However...
What was originally intended to be a fun little Halloween party quickly turns into an actual night of horrors. When one of the attendees is found dead, fear and uncertainty spread among the group as the friends realize they are trapped with a murderer.
As they try to unveil the identity of the killer, they slowly begin to learn to what atrocities despair can drive a human being... once its trust has been broken.

Features:
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair is a murder mystery visual novel, featuring a variety of interactive elements to help you feel like an actual detective:
Make Choices that will not only contribute towards your Detective Rank, but also influence the story and unlock bonus content upon its completion. And who knows? Maybe you will even be able to save a life!
Investigate certain locations inside the resort and interrogate your classmates in order to collect clues and evidence, which will help you solve various mysteries throughout the night.
Present Evidence to back up your claims as you unravel the truth and reveal the identity of the culprit. Be careful with your deductions, however, or you might end up accusing someone innocent of the most heinous crimes!

Other features include:
Character Profiles which provide you with additional information about the characters, as well as their current status (Alive, Dead, Missing, Unknown).
Diary which summarizes the story’s progression.
Notebook which is frequently updated to help you keep track of gathered information and evidence.
5 Endings (4 Bad Endings & 1 True Culprit Ending).
Unlockable Gallery encompassing CG art, miscellaneous art, bonus scenes & diary entries.
Original Soundtrack consisting of 24 unique tracks, as well as a couple of variations.
150,000+ words in length.
8-10 hours of playtime, depending on your reading speed and how thorough you are.


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Languages: English
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
My favourite part was when Raiko sed "It's Raikoin Time" and Raikoed all over the killer
The game is a decent murder mystery that'll scratch that whodunit itch. I've seen a lot of comparisons to Danganronpa, or Ace Attorney, but I don't think Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair is quite at that level. It feels more like a shoujo manga-esque "Murder, She Wrote" with Raiko Shinpuku taking the center stage as our sardonic protagonist. She reluctantly goes to Rie Miyamoto's Halloween party, in which a series of harmless pranks turns into the sudden death of one of their classmates. Bodies start piling up, and it's up to Raiko to figure out whodunnit before the wrong person goes to jail. The mystery itself is challenging, and requires a keen eye to skim the clues and the text in order to discern who the culprit is. There is one flaw to this game: Kotoba. It's bad enough he's more perverted than Minoru Mineta from My Hero Academia. It's bad enough that he mixes languages like an american twelve year old weeb who's trying to learn japanese from poorly subbed anime. It's both traits that make Kotoba into an intolerable cringelord. In spite of Kotoba, I am going to give this game a recommended because I did have a fun time with it.
More Visual Novel than investigation game, wouldn't mind more investigation stages, however I liked the plot and characters. Enjoyable game, would recommend!
ótima vn com uma história muito boa, se tu curte jogo de detetive e assassinato é um prato cheio, adorei a experiência e gostaria que tivesse mais jogos desse gênero tão bem feitos quanto esse ^_^
Gostei do jogo, os gráficos são ok e começa um pouco lento mas vale bastante a pena, os personagens, a história e o mistério do jogo me agradaram bastante. Recomendo.
Despite its ostensibly dark tone, a consistently fun, if somewhat amateurish, visual novel. 7/10
Bom jogo, dá pra completar em um dia, umas 8 horas de gameplay. Sinto falta de mais investigação, mas o jogo é bem legal e da pra se divertir com o desenrolar da história.
If you can tolerate some 2000s era cringe (in particular in the first couple hours), there's a decent mystery here. The ending sequence is pretty good and you will probably mess up the first time.
[spoiler] There is 1 impostor among us [/spoiler] Good mystery, decent plot. Overall an enjoyable read. Mika best girl.
decent mystery, even if my eyes were glazing over the text by the end.
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