
Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present? With frequent plot twists, you never know which is the truth and which is the unexpected; in a dense fog, time buries the past, but the marks remain.
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The Diary is a 2D suspenseful narrative puzzle game that revolves around several distinct "diaries," including a journal full of life but full of doubts, two investigative notebooks written by different people, and the planner's diary, which will all be displayed before you.
By solving each page's puzzle, you will turn the pages and gradually gain insight into a heart-stopping missing case. From different perspectives, you will uncover the buried past behind the case.

· Open an unknown diary and search for its owner while solving puzzles
· Among 6 characters, whose perspective are you reading the diary from?
· With multiple reversals, the answer may be right in front of you or it may never appear

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Languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese
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Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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有中评会给中评 前期节奏不错,也能懂制作组想制作出反转的感觉,但结局真的太草率了 以下涉及剧透 [spoiler] 女主忍辱负重调查出了故事的真相,然后呢? 看到男主自杀的时候我感觉估计绑架失踪啥的都是女主为了复仇让他们自相残杀装的 没想到故事结局反而没有反转了,婚礼也举办了,女主也确实被毫无悬念的人绑架了,尤里除了干些灰色生意以外居然是纯爱...真的好无聊 [/spoiler]
我是跑不掉的众筹冤种,没买的快跑吧,顶级美工搭配邪门文案,左脚踩右脚上不了天的,只能上避雷榜
个人觉得挺好玩的,很有意思,当然建议打对折时入
还我钱来....
Ignore the negative comments about the small bugs on the UI, those are sometimes annoying at best, but nothing frustrating. The art, interaction, plot and character writing is amazing! Would absolutely recommend this cozy, mystery solving from different povs setting.
This game is very well made. The story is suspenseful and does hit some sensitive topics, but that's what made it so emotional while I played. !!Spoilers ahead!!! I'm well educated when it comes to things like murder mysteries and stalking cases cause those are things I watch documentaries and listen to podcasts as well. I wasn't expecting the final ending, and as sad as it was it was a very well told plotline. I enjoyed the little mini games and putting the puzzle pieces together to solve the case. I'm glad Ashley didn't just let it go, and that she solved the case.
Hauntingly beautiful, and entirely told through bullet journals. Had this sitting in my wishlist for quite a while before actually playing it, which I think added so much to this story - not knowing anything about its marketing and story hints anymore. Can;t expect everyone to have that same experience (esp if you're deep enough to read reviews on this game), but I do believe that going in as blind as possible has its unique upsides. The artwork looks amazing and has a very appealing style, and the animation adds so much charm to the whole thing. The way the story was presented also just had so much detail and care put into it, I'm absolutely in love. In general, the whole game was very captivating design wise - UI, art, music.... Super beautiful, very artistic and with such a clear vision. I did find that some font choices (or, more accurately, font size & kerning) were a bit hard to read since a lot of them emulate a handwritten style. But, overall, the parts where I noticed this were a lot more for flavour text than actually crucial for puzzle completion. In my personal experience, I found this game to be very polished, and the gameplay was snappy. Maybe a bit _too_ snappy even: trying to just look through the snippets made some of them fall into adjacent free spaces, and some ended in their correct place because of it. Nothing too annoying, but I do wish I could actually see the text underneath all the snippets I'm meant to place ^^' Sometimes the screen got a bit crowded. I couldn't find any of the issues that other reviewers/commenters mentioned; no game-breaking bugs whatsoever. There were some issues with the EN localisation - some minor misspellings and one case where a dialogue was duplicated from another clue - but none of it seemed to impact the gameplay at all. Even if it did, the game is very easy and can be brute-forced if really necessary: Some snippets can only be placed in specific categories of places, and correctly placed snippets will immediately lock in place fully. This makes it a lot easier than similar games in this genre, but the amount of snippets & lack of handholding really makes up for it. All in all, I really enjoyed this game, and applaud the storytelling of it all. Insanely cool project!!
The art and gameplay is gorgeous. I love this idea of putting scraps of paper in the correct order in a diary, super cozy aesthetic. The problem is that the story is sh*t. [spoiler] Why did Cedric get bullied for "Ooooh you and so-and-so like each other" but the female MC wasn't bullied for it? And then when the female MC finds out what her fiance did, she didn't call off the wedding. And in the end, it's very unclear if the bullies were ever punished for what they did years ago. [/spoiler] Not a well written plot at all.
画风喜欢,里面一些小互动也很新颖。故事内容有一些小巧思,推理很简单不怎么用思考就能顺利过剧情。总体来说是一款很可爱的游戏 ‧˚꒰🐾୭ ˚. ᵎᵎ
Ne hikaye anlatıyor, ne puzzle sunuyor, ne de aşırı gizli bir twisti var. İlginç bir tarzı dünyanın en sıkıcı ve basit hikayesinde kullanmak istemişler. Sanat tarzı hoş, mekanik açısından bir takım fikirleri var ama geliştirmemişler.
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