{"rewrite":{"id":"r_807345a65659b4fe1ee6cb24","clusterId":"c_e438a8e422ca31daed82de1d","slug":"the-season-of-books-and-keys-opens-its-trial-chapter-on-pc","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"The Season of Books and Keys Opens Its Trial Chapter on PC","summary":"Shueisha Games has released a trial version of The Season of Books and Keys, a PC adventure game built on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. The trial covers Chapter 1, \"913,\" in which library committee members Jiro Horikawa and Shimon Matsukura take on a safe left behind by their deceased grandfather. iMel handles development, with mystery design by Nozomu Unabara of Liar-soft. The full version is scheduled for this winter, price undecided.","whyItMatters":"The trial puts Yonezawa's novel in front of players months ahead of a winter launch, with the mystery design outsourced to a Liar-soft writer and full-screen text staging that departs from the character-sprite visual novel format.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe trial runs Chapter 1, titled \u0026#34;913,\u0026#34; and frames the puzzle around an \u0026#34;unopenable safe\u0026#34; left by the pair\u0026#39;s deceased grandfather, which the two approach from their respective perspectives. Jiro Horikawa is voiced by Kazuki Ura and Shimon Matsukura by Yuichiro Umehara.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShueisha Games calls the genre \u0026#34;drama-like adventure,\u0026#34; described as fusing the experience of reading text with the experience of watching it. The game has no character sprites; text is displayed across the entire screen instead. Keywords are applied to text in important scenes to solve mysteries, and some passages play closer to a point-and-click adventure. iMel develops, and Nozomu Unabara, credited on Evening Maiden and Adabana Odd Tales at Liar-soft, designs the deduction sections.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"The Season of Books and Keys makes its trial Chapter 1 \"913\" free while Shueisha Games leaves the full version's price undecided, so the demo has to sell the safe-and-library premise before buyers can weigh a cost.","twitterPost":"The Season of Books and Keys ships a free Chapter 1 \"913\" trial while Shueisha Games keeps the full price undecided, so the demo carries the pitch alone.","threadsPost":"The Season of Books and Keys opens with a free trial of Chapter 1, \"913,\" built around Jiro Horikawa and Shimon Matsukura cracking a safe their grandfather left behind. Shueisha Games has not set the full version's price for this winter, so the demo is doing the selling on premise rather than on cost.","newsletterBlurb":"Shueisha Games released a PC trial of The Season of Books and Keys, an adventure game adapted from Honobu Yonezawa's novel. The playable Chapter 1, \"913,\" follows two library committee members and a safe their grandfather left behind. iMel develops, Nozomu Unabara of Liar-soft designs the deduction, and the full version is set for this winter with price undecided.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GAME Watch (Impress)\",\"url\":\"https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2150095.html\",\"title\":\"Trial Version of ADV \\\"The Season of Books and Keys,\\\" Based on a Novel by Honobu Yonezawa of \\\"Hyouka\\\" Fame, Now Available\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4597,"outputTokens":719,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792580836,"createdAt":"2026-10-21T11:03:03.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-21T11:06:07.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T11:06:07.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_e438a8e422ca31daed82de1d","canonicalTitle":"「氷菓」を手掛けた米澤穂信氏の小説を原作とするADV「本と鍵の季節」体験版が配信","representativeArticleId":"a_563d6579ff93be3864e52d1f","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Hon to Kagi no Kisetsu\"],\"studios\":[\"Liar-soft\",\"Shueisha Games\"],\"people\":[\"Honobu Yonezawa\",\"Nozomu Unabara\",\"Kento Iwase\",\"Kazuki Urawa\",\"Yuichiro Umehara\"],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-21T09:25:16.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-21T09:25:16.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T11:06:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"GAME Watch (Impress)","url":"https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2150095.html","title":"「氷菓」を手掛けた米澤穂信氏の小説を原作とするADV「本と鍵の季節」体験版が配信"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Hon to Kagi no Kisetsu"],"studios":["Liar-soft","Shueisha Games"],"people":["Honobu Yonezawa","Nozomu Unabara","Kento Iwase","Kazuki Urawa","Yuichiro Umehara"],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}