{"rewrite":{"id":"r_3f8460d8c366f6958acac956","clusterId":"c_82a370d9b9c109e721b1504d","slug":"resequence-the-orchard-demo-now-live-on-steam","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Resequence: The Orchard Demo Now Live on Steam","summary":"Clearave released a demo of its PC game Resequence: The Orchard on Steam on October 9, 2026. The ensemble adventure game follows protagonist Saito Raisuke, a man whose missing wife has left him without the will to live, as he takes up work as a school counselor. The demo covers two segments: Saito Raisuke's Record of Circumstances Concerning Engagement in Counseling Work and Boku Sogo's Counseling: Session 1, with a playtime of about one hour.","whyItMatters":"The demo gives players their first extended look at how the game's counseling sessions function as the mechanism for uncovering both the students' strange experiences and the truth behind the protagonist's wife's disappearance.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe demo is free to download and runs about one hour, covering two playable segments. The game is an ensemble adventure built around counseling sessions, where Saito Raisuke draws out the events and pasts carried by students troubled by mysterious phenomena. The scenario is written by the creative brand Re,AER, which worked on Magical Girl Witch Trial, and the visuals are handled by fracoco. Saito is encouraged to take the counseling job by his colleague Ashlyn and high school girl Honda Shoko. The game is described as depicting the horror of the uncanny eroding everyday life.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaito Raisuke\u0026#39;s Record of Circumstances Concerning Engagement in Counseling Work\u003c/strong\u003e: Playable demo segment\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBoku Sogo\u0026#39;s Counseling: Session 1\u003c/strong\u003e: Playable demo segment\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","blueskyPost":"Resequence: The Orchard hands Saito Raisuke a counseling job as the narrative frame, so the disappearances get filtered through someone trained to listen rather than to investigate.","twitterPost":"Resequence: The Orchard makes its grieving lead a school counselor, so the mystery advances through sessions, not detective work.","threadsPost":"Resequence: The Orchard gives Saito Raisuke a counselor's chair instead of a detective's, and the demo splits its hour between his case record and Boku Sogo's first session. The structure suggests the truth surfaces in what clients say, not in what he uncovers.","newsletterBlurb":"Clearave has released a demo for Resequence: The Orchard on Steam, dated October 9, 2026. The demo covers two segments and runs about an hour. The game is an ensemble adventure about a widower-turned-counselor confronting the uncanny and his wife's disappearance.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/964/G096496/20261009003/\",\"title\":\"Ensemble ADV \\\"Resequence: The Orchard,\\\" in Which Players Draw Closer to the Truth of the Uncanny and the Protagonist's Wife's Disappearance Through Counseling, Releases Demo on Steam\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4282,"outputTokens":623,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791520633,"createdAt":"2026-10-09T04:32:53.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T04:36:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T04:36:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_82a370d9b9c109e721b1504d","canonicalTitle":"カウンセリングを通じて，怪異や妻の失踪の真実へと近づいていく群像劇型ADV「Resequence: The Orchard」，体験版をSteamで公開","representativeArticleId":"a_32ecba933b29295259fce6bf","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Resequence: The Orchard\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-09T03:18:17.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-09T03:18:17.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T04:36:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"4Gamer.net","url":"https://www.4gamer.net/games/964/G096496/20261009003/","title":"カウンセリングを通じて，怪異や妻の失踪の真実へと近づいていく群像劇型ADV「Resequence: The Orchard」，体験版をSteamで公開"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Resequence: The Orchard"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}