Homicipher

Review & Guide

Status: Doing

Developer: 八名木Games

Year of release: 2024

Languages: ENG / JPN (official)

Duration: 5-15 hours

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Adventure, Thriller

Plot: When the protagonist wakes up, they find themselves lost in a different world. As they learn the words of the mysterious monsters that speak a strange language, they search for a way to escape. Along the way, will they fall in love with the monster men who come to their aid...? Really? ©Steam

Fukushu Teikoku

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Fetish

Release year: 2017

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Erotica, Army (guys in uniform???), Adventure, Action

Plot: An interstellar war begins when planets are colonized. This is the age of star wars. There is an Empire and a Republic. The main character belongs to the Empire. He's a soldier, a noble with a rank somewhere around lieutenant. He is a young instructor responsible for training new recruits, especially for the mental component of their training. Consequently, he is skilled in hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming, among other things, so he can use words and gestures to make the target act as he pleases. However, one day, the squad led by the main character was destroyed in battle.

Tokyo Onmyouji

Review & Guide

Status: Plans

Developer: Holic Works

Year of release: 2014

Languages: JPN / ENG (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Adventure

Plot: The year is 2014 in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, Japan. Although the practice of onmyoji — masters of spirits and divination — was previously banned at the end of the Second World War, it was re-approved in order to combat the ongoing supernatural threat.

Friendly Lab

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Tennenouji

Release year: 2022

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Violence, Psychology

Plot: Welcome, researcher. Soon you will conduct a gentle experiment on our two subjects. The purpose of this experiment is not to facilitate the subjects' escape. The purpose of the experiment is to measure the effect of the researcher's intervention on the subjects. The experiment is safe, reliable, and gentle, requiring no force, command, or torture. ;)

Zettai Fukujuu Meirei

Review & Guide

Status: Plans 

Developer: Langmaor

Year of release: 2005

Languages: JPN / ENG (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, War, Comedy

Plot: The game takes place in West Germany after The Second World War. The player assumes the role of either Kia Welbehen or Louise Hardwich, one of the two members of the secret agency run by Hardwich. They are both assigned specific goals, which range from KGB members to aspiring football players. Assignments usually involve seducing targets.

Enzai: Falsely Accused

Review & Guide

Status: Plans

Developer: Langmaor

Year of release: 2002

Languages: JPN / ENG (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Gore

Plot: This is the history of France during the reign of Napoleon. Although the Revolution brought with it new laws and some semblance of representative government, there are some places that never change: a dark hole known as a prison. A boy named Gais is sent to this hell. The crime is murder, and the sentence is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. However, Gais is innocent of this crime. He was living his life as he always has, running around the city and stealing to survive when he was caught by a policeman. Before he realized what was happening, he was accused of a crime he knew nothing about, brought before a dishonest judge, and found guilty. But who was killed and for what?

UuultraC

Review & Guide

Status: Plans

Developer: ADELTA

Release year: 2020

Languages: JPN / ENG (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Action, Fantasy

Plot: March 1970. Setaro lives with her boyfriend, Kozuka, in Soshigaya, Tokyo. Society sees people turning into kaiju as an infectious disease. One side is protesting for the admission of infected people, and there is concern in the air. Setaro is a supporter of justice, but his life changes dramatically after he finds himself in the blood of a Kaiju.

Kintouka

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: GRISEDGE

Release year: 2017

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 40-60 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Psychology

Plot: After the death of his grandmother, the main character, Sota, returned to his hometown, where his father lives. There he was reunited with his childhood friends, but also with a man who had not changed at all, despite the fact that 18 years had passed since then...

Hanamachi Monogatari

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Vivid Color

Year of release: 2005

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Erotica

Plot: The main character Suri has an English father and a Japanese mother, so he has blonde hair and blue eyes, which makes him bullied. After his parents' death, he initially works as a servant in a brothel, where he is beaten, starved, and forced to work overtime. One day, he attracts the attention of Tatsumi, the owner of a notorious male brothel, who buys him. As soon as the main character enters the brothel, he gets a beautiful kimono, his own room and delicious food for the first time in his life.

Hanakage -Ochita Mitsuka-

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Vivid Color

Year of release: 2009

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Erotica

Plot: 7 years have passed since the story of the prequel "Hanamachi Monogatari". Hanakage takes place in the Meiji era in Japan. The main character, Kirishima Iori, is one of the most popular prostitutes in the Hanabishi men's red light district. Iori originally came from a prestigious samurai family. However, his father accumulated a large amount of debts and committed suicide. To protect his mother, Iori chose the path of a prostitute. Although the main character worked as a humble prostitute, he did not lose his pride. He was often rude and impolite to his patrons, which caused him to have problems with Tatsumi's owner.

Galtia

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: GRISEDGE

Year of release: 2015

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Action, Adventure

Plot: A tale of war, intrigue, love and hate, set in four countries on the continent of Alderant. The main character Shin works as a freelance jack-of-all-trades, doing various jobs. After he gets involved in an assassination attempt on one of the kings attending the Meeting of the Four Countries, he eventually gets closer to the mysteries of this world.

Messiah

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: core

Year of release: 2006

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Supernatural

Plot: The main character is Takuto, who lives with his friend due to the death of his parents. He's working part-time at a local flower shop when one day a strange man arrives and starts buying white roses almost every day. He and Takuto become closer to each other, but Takuto realizes that strange things are happening, such as the disappearance of his colleague. One day, he decides to deliver roses to the mansion of a mysterious buyer, and his friend follows him. And so the mysteries begin to escalate.

Nie no Machi

Review & Guide

Status: Plans

Developer: Zombilica
Release year: 2018
Languages: JPN / ENG (official)
Duration: 10-30 hours
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Plot: The main character is a young man named Hisora who works several part-time jobs. One day, he suddenly finds himself lost in a strange world.

Room No.9

Review & Guide

Status: Plans

Developer: parade

Release year: 2016

Languages: JPN / ENG (official)

Duration: 10-20 hours

Genres: Drama, Psychological Horror

Plot: The best friends go on a too-good-to-be-true summer vacation, but it quickly turns into a nightmare... Instead of an island paradise, they find themselves locked in a strange room and forced to participate in an incomprehensible "experiment." They'll have to play along to have any hope of escaping with their lives intact, but that means hurting each other and possibly destroying their friendship.

Paradise

Review & Guide

Status: Doing

Developer: PIL/SLASH

Release year: 2017

Languages: JPN / ENG (official)

Duration: 30-40 hours

Genres: Drama, Adventure, Psychology, Thriller

Plot: The story is about a group of men who go on vacation to a desert island. When things start to go wrong, they realize with horror that they are in a difficult situation.

Omega Vampire

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Karin Chat Noir Omega

Release year: 2016

Languages: JPN (official); ENG (unofficial)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Action, Mystery, Omegaverse

Plot: Yokohama, the 20XXs. The world is divided between humans and vampires. A research firm is creating an artificial blood source similar to human blood, and most vampires support this idea, as many of them try to coexist peacefully with humans. But by their very nature, vampires prefer human blood, so attacks on ordinary mortals, despite the fight against this group of peaceful vampires, are not uncommon...

Tsumi naru Rasen no Ori

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Spray

Release year: 2016

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance

Plot: The year is 1895. The Kingdom of Cusrutonia. On top of one of the city's hills, located not very far from the capital, the deafening ringing of funeral bells suddenly sounded, announcing the death of an aristocrat once known as the hero of this land.

Kichiku Megane

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Spray

Year of release: 2007

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Supernatural

Plot: Katsuya Saeki is a 25-year-old unsuccessful employee working in the marketing branch of a pharmaceutical company, whose division is under threat of dismissal. Weak-willed and shy, one evening he meets Mr. R., who gives him glasses that he claims will change his life. When Katsuya puts on glasses, he becomes confident and domineering, but the more he wears them, the more violent and sadistic he becomes.

Omerta ~Chinmoku no Okite~

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Karin Chat Noir Omega

Year of release: 2011

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Mafia, Action, Thriller

Plot: The criminal life of Tokyo of the future. Several mafia groups are fighting for power. In the center of the story is the hired killer JJ, who five years ago did not kill the son of a married couple ordered by him. Now the boy lives with him, and dreams of avenging the death of his parents.

Shingakkou -Noli me tangere-

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: PIL/SLASH

Year of release: 2011

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, School, Mystery, Horror, Supernatural, Psychology

Plot: Michael and his brother Gabriel are twins who attend Sunday school. They return home to their family for the Christmas holidays, only to find a mountain of corpses and a house burned to the ground instead. On one of the surviving walls, the killers left a mysterious sign painted in the blood of the father of the family: an inverted cross with a snake curling around it. This is the mark of the devil — worshipping sectarians that are located in their school.