{"rewrite":{"id":"r_82b341663f366f0859c90833","clusterId":"c_c2240a8d2a66f00643ae16e6","slug":"astro-shaft-announces-angel-mall-mystery-adv-for-steam-in-2027","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Astro Shaft Announces Angel Mall Mystery ADV For Steam In 2027","summary":"Doujin circle Astro Shaft has announced Angel Mall, a mystery-solving adventure game in which protagonist Tsuzuri and four other girls wake up with an android in an unmanned shopping mall. Exploration carries a time limit, and progress fills an Information Board as players map the building. The developer plans a Steam release in 2027.","whyItMatters":"Astro Shaft is positioning Angel Mall on a timed exploration loop rather than a pure scripted story, which puts the doujin circle in the same design space as recent cooperative and puzzle-focused mystery games on Steam.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe cast is five girls plus one android. Tsuzuri is the protagonist, bad with machines and prone to breaking them; Towa is blunt and honest; April is the oldest and works under an alias; Sui is the youngest, well-spoken but abrasive; Reiko is the android, high-performance on paper yet unable to answer a question about the weather.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraces and records left inside the mall drive the search. Tsuzuri finds evidence that she once lived there. The mall is called Angel Mall, and it is empty when the girls wake up.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTsuzuri\u003c/strong\u003e: Protagonist; wakes in the mall with four other girls and is extremely bad with machines\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTowa\u003c/strong\u003e: Acts together with Tsuzuri; innocent and poor at reading the room, but honest\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eApril\u003c/strong\u003e: Oldest of the five and uses an alias; foul-mouthed but feels responsibility as the eldest\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSui\u003c/strong\u003e: Youngest of the five; refined speech, poor attitude toward others\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReiko\u003c/strong\u003e: Android that started up alongside the girls; cannot answer even a question about the weather\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","blueskyPost":"Angel Mall's Information Board turns the mall into a map the player builds, not a map the game hands over. The exploration timer means that fill-in happens under pressure, which is where a mystery ADV usually loses its footing.","twitterPost":"Angel Mall makes the map itself the progress bar: the Information Board fills as you explore, against a clock.","threadsPost":"Angel Mall pairs a time limit with an Information Board that fills as Tsuzuri and the other girls map the mall. Those two systems pull against each other, since the timer puts a cost on the very exploration that completes the board. How Astro Shaft balances them decides whether the mystery stays legible.","newsletterBlurb":"Astro Shaft has announced Angel Mall, a mystery-solving adventure game set in an unmanned shopping mall where protagonist Tsuzuri wakes alongside four other girls and one android. Exploration is time-limited, and repeated runs fill an Information Board that changes how the map and flow work. The doujin circle plans a Steam release in 2027.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/12/173511.html\",\"title\":\"Five girls wake up in an unmanned shopping mall... Astro Shaft announces 'Angel Mall,' a mystery-solving ADV with a curious, nostalgic atmosphere!\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4716,"outputTokens":719,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791796030,"createdAt":"2026-10-12T09:02:58.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-12T09:06:07.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-12T09:06:07.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_c2240a8d2a66f00643ae16e6","canonicalTitle":"無人ショッピングモールで目覚めた5人の少女たち...。どこか不思議で懐かしい雰囲気の謎解きADV『エンゼルモール』発表！","representativeArticleId":"a_3b70b61455f8b8d37ffaef3e","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"エンゼルモール\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-12T08:15:03.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-12T08:15:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-12T09:06:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/12/173511.html","title":"無人ショッピングモールで目覚めた5人の少女たち...。どこか不思議で懐かしい雰囲気の謎解きADV『エンゼルモール』発表！"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["エンゼルモール"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}