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Indie studio PHOSEPO developed the game, set around 13 Byono-sha whose cognitive abnormalities create murder tricks.","whyItMatters":"The pitch is a deduction game where the evidence itself is unreliable, since each suspect's cognitive abnormality can be transmitted to others and warp what witnesses perceive.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003ePHOSEPO\u0026#39;s structure pairs a werewolf-style death game with a twist on testimony: the 13 Byono-sha can pass their own cognitive abnormalities to other people, so murder scenes are built from perceptions no ordinary logic can reconstruct. The cast includes a character who cannot lie because of obsessive-compulsive disorder, one who cannot recognize the left half of a scene and misses evidence, and one with prosopagnosia who cannot identify faces.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeduction runs through a Debate Mode, where players decide within a time limit whether to accept a statement or present evidence against it. The game carries over 30 event CGs, more than 60 backgrounds, a scenario past 500,000 characters with full Japanese voice acting, and over 50 original BGM tracks.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Byono Detective is out now on Steam, Epic Games Store, and STOVE. Thermite Games and Smilegate's mystery ADV pits 13 Byono-sha against each other, and their cognitive abnormalities can be passed on, so the evidence itself is unreliable.","twitterPost":"Byono Detective launches today on Steam, Epic Games Store, and STOVE. 13 Byono-sha, each with a cognitive abnormality they can transmit to others, turn murder scenes into traps logic alone cannot solve.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Thermite Games and Smilegate released the mystery adventure Byono Detective on November 5, 2026, for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and STOVE. Indie studio PHOSEPO built the game around 13 ability users whose cognitive abnormalities can be passed to others, which is what makes the evidence untrustworthy. Steam pricing is 2,800 yen for the standard edition and 5,035 yen for the Deluxe Edition, with a two-week launch discount.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/910/G091052/20261105031/\",\"title\":\"Unravel murder tricks that exploit cognitive abnormalities. Mystery ADV \\\"Byono Detective\\\" launches today. 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