{"rewrite":{"id":"r_4336fcfc25ff3c1b5def679b","clusterId":"c_ac5438a6d11f4c833c94251f","slug":"idea-factory-announces-iconology-for-pc-and-switch","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Idea Factory Announces ICONOLOGY For PC And Switch","summary":"Idea Factory's new adventure-game brand IFChronicle announced ICONOLOGY on September 30 for PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch Lite. The crime suspense ADV casts an art university student, Haruho Tsubakiya, who is scouted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Advanced Technology Investigation Division to read suspects' minds as paintings. Makoto Fukami writes the scenario and Tota designs characters. A manga serialization begins October 14 in Ichijinsha's comic HOWL.","whyItMatters":"Idea Factory is opening a second front alongside Otomate and Compile Heart with a brand built to sell conversation-style adventure games outside Japan, and it has paired that pitch with a PSYCHO-PASS screenwriter and a same-month manga launch in Ichijinsha's comic HOWL.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eICONOLOGY is the first release from IFChronicle, the Idea Factory brand formed to spread conversation-style adventure games from Japan to a global audience. Its premise puts an art student, Haruho Tsubakiya, inside a top-secret police unit that pulls mental images from suspects as paintings; she deciphers them using art knowledge. The game carries multiple endings, and misreading a painting or making the wrong choice can leave a case unsolved. Makoto Fukami, who wrote for the PSYCHO-PASS series, handles the scenario, and Tota, credited on Fate/Grand Order, handles character design.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Fukami built his reputation on Psycho-Pass, where the mind is a system to be measured. ICONOLOGY turns that inside out: the suspect's brain becomes a painting, and reading it is the investigation.","twitterPost":"Fukami wrote Psycho-Pass, where minds get measured by a system. ICONOLOGY makes the mind a painting a detective has to interpret instead.","threadsPost":"Makoto Fukami's Psycho-Pass scripts treated the mind as something a system could scan and score. ICONOLOGY makes it a painting instead, and the detective work is interpretation rather than measurement. That is a different kind of crime story than the one his name usually signals.","newsletterBlurb":"Idea Factory announced ICONOLOGY on September 30 under IFChronicle, a new brand for conversation-style adventure games. The title is a crime suspense ADV for PC and Switch in which an art student deciphers suspects' mental images as paintings for a secret police division. Makoto Fukami writes the scenario and Tota handles character design, with a manga serialization starting October 14 in Ichijinsha's comic HOWL.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20260930-470763/\",\"title\":\"Idea Factory's New \\\"ADV Specialist\\\" Brand, from Otomate, Announces 'ICONOLOGY'. Scenario by Makoto Fukami of \\\"PSYCHO-PASS,\\\" a Criminal Investigation That \\\"Paints\\\" the Suspect's Mind to Expose the Truth\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4654,"outputTokens":688,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791163769,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T01:25:31.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T01:28:24.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T01:28:24.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_ac5438a6d11f4c833c94251f","canonicalTitle":"「オトメイト」アイディアファクトリーの“ADV専門”新ブランドが放つ『イコノロジー』発表。「PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス」の深見真氏がシナリオ担当、容疑者の脳内を「絵画化」して暴く犯罪捜査","representativeArticleId":"a_117a4b11ccfcfe945a7aebcb","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"ICONOLOGY\"],\"studios\":[\"Idea Factory\",\"Otomate\"],\"people\":[\"Makoto Fukami\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-30T02:30:01.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-30T02:30:01.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T01:28:22.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20260930-470763/","title":"「オトメイト」アイディアファクトリーの“ADV専門”新ブランドが放つ『イコノロジー』発表。「PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス」の深見真氏がシナリオ担当、容疑者の脳内を「絵画化」して暴く犯罪捜査"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["ICONOLOGY"],"studios":["Idea Factory","Otomate"],"people":["Makoto Fukami"],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}