Murders on the Yangtze River on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
Murders on the Yangtze River is a detective, adventure and puzzle game
developed by OMEGAMES STUDIO
and published by OMEGAMES STUDIO and NPC Entertainment.
Released on January 30th 2024 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 17,759 reviews of which 17,285 were positive and 474 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @3.3GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel GMA 950
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 8 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac Monterey
- Processor: Dual Core 2 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 8 GB available space
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This visual novel with investigative elements took me by surprise! It's a solid 20+ hours game, maybe more if you want to get all the achievements. The game has been crafted with the utmost care, the music, landscapes, background, voice acting and trials are all gorgeous. I braced myself, thinking it might be another clone of Ace Attorney or worse, a game that is less and less impressive as you move forward, as it is often the case in game development, the team gets tired; I couldn't have been more wrong! Fortunately, this game is its own, with interesting stories and mechanics, the themes are mature and mixed true history elements instead of being "wacky faces and crazy voices to make it entertaining". I loved each character, who are far from the usual cliches and was really interested in hearing Chinese voice acting, as it is fairly rare for me to have access to it. I also really enjoyed that these are Chinese characters written by Chinese people and not "Here is my silly impression of how a Chinese person acts or talks.". For example, it was especially prevalent seeing that Brian's landlady is Chinese, which makes sense. If you are a Chinese immigrant in the 1900s, you get in touch with other Chinese people, because they got your back, they will help you get settled, maybe even help you get a job, tell you where to buy food or herbal medicine. It's also common to refer to older women as "grandma" or "auntie" in many East Asian cultures. If this game was written by people who have no affinity for China, they might completely disregard these details for the sake of the plot. As a side effect, the game ignited my interest for Chinese history, as it mixes history and the clear feeling of the game devs being proud of their country as an entity that developed so many technologies and their people being at the core of making things possible. That said, do not fear, the game is not in any way propaganda, it merely recounts historical facts and helps you get curious about things you might not know!
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10/10, so many things to say about this. first off i love the dev note where they explain what games heavily inspired them, and it's clearly seen in the game most especially ace attorney. initially reading the game description "ace attorney-like set in china" made me a bit sussed at first but it genuinely is quite like AA, and in a good way. the story is solid and very well written, i also liked the characters a lot. the art is beautiful and the music is astounding, there's clear ace attorney inspiration from the music too. i am a huge fan of traditional chinese instruments so the music was always such a blast to listen to. although there are many referencing and inspiration from other detective series, this game feels unique to itself too with certain game mechanics and themes. it also has this whole glossary thing where they explain history and crime facts along the way, it's very interesting and made me want to search up the things told in the glossary. a bit of spoilers here, but i love the message very much in this game regarding drug use and the horrendous outcomes of it. it's very hard hitting and definitely came from a place of sympathy, wanting to spread the message around regarding drug abuse. they also give you short lessons on the history of drugs in China, it's very interesting. the more you know. overall would definitely recommend getting this game especially at full price, it's an experience worth going through!
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I rarely leave reviews for games but after completing this one, I just had to. MOTYR got me so invested with each case, I felt a sense of closure along with all of the characters when we finished our last. In fact, MOTYR might just be the game to get me into the AA rabbit hole. The storytelling in this game is simply amazing. OMEGAMES STUDIO thoughtfully crafted the story, with well-timed cut scenes and animation to help you visualize. The plot guides you carefully without giving itself away, and leaves you with just enough room to deduce the sequence of events. There were moments where the reasoning does seem just a bit too far-fetched, and times where I found myself over-complicating things when it turn out to be so straightforward. In one of the cases, I cooked up a deduction which made so much sense, only for the game to tell me "nah you are just thinking too much" which got me a little disappointed. However, that didn't break the immersion too much for me and I was still convinced with each case's outcome. The music is absolutely beautiful, with the right mood at the right moment. I felt relaxed listening to the flute while cruising down the river, and tensed during the trials. Not to mention, the voice acting got me pleasantly surprised. The accents when the Chinese speaking characters spoke English in the game (and vice versa) blew me away, The attention to details was spot on. One part worth mentioning would be when Afu investigates the crime scene during the last case, you'll notice that the shades on his glasses are down (they are usually up) because they are supposed to help him with his hemophobia, which he will talk about during an earlier case. That being said, the translation for MOTYR could definitely be improved. I am bilingual and can understand both English and Chinese so it wasn't a huge problem for me, but there were some things that got lost in translation. Some of the options might also sound a little similar to one another due to that. Despite this, don't let it stop you from getting MOTYR because the translation still got all the important details covered. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed myself through the MOTYR experience and I cannot wait for OMEGAMES STUDIO to (hopefully) release the next one!!! (Also Shen hot. Shen's brother hot. Joseph HOT. Afu CUTE!!! Wen WAIFU.)
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This game is worth the price for the following reasons alone; • The voice acting is stellar. The English characters speak English (and/or Mandarin with a thick accent) and vice versa. Very immersive. I don't speak Mandarin but I assume it's just as good or better than the English. • The localization isn't perfect. Far from it. But no mistakes are glaring enough to detract from enjoying the game. (The developer offers to work on it when given feedback through E-mail, but there's honestly too many MINOR errors to really list it all off in a single e-mail. I would gladly correct the erroneous text if provided with a complete dialog file, though! Hit me up. Making this already great game even better is worth it to me.) • The game plays great and the 'who-dun-it' riddles are very well written. • Dialog (ignoring the translation errors) is fantastic. • As opposed to many other Chinese games on the market, there is very little CCP propaganda. It didn't rear up its head until the end credits, and it was very minor. I can recommend this game to anyone who likes the following: • Ace Attorney games or similar. • Logic puzzles. • Educational content. • A good overarching plot. • Unraveling a mystery. All in all, the game will entertain you for about 12-15 hours if you're playing leisurely. Each of the 6 chapters should last you about 2-3 hours. My playtime is ballooned due to leaving the game running while I was away. Oops. I'm very hard to please, but this title was worth every penny.
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Absolutely loved it. Writing is good, for the most part finding the right answer is possible within reason (even if I didn't in many cases, it made sense in retrospective), and the few occasions that required slightly more far-fetched reasoning were not experience-breaking. The game is also very forgiving, you barely have to redo anything when you "die" and retry. There is a surprising diversity of mechanics, some are similar, some are not as great as others, but none of them drag for long nor become drilling or repetitive. Personally, I think the best part of the game is the depth of the historical context, not just the little notes of historical information you get from time to time (which are great), but how that context is part of the plot and is reflected in the various (and also fairly diverse) characters in the story. The complexity and detail in the steel foundry setting was fascinating. The weakest point may be the English translation. It's not terrible by any means, but it generally takes the same style as the subtitles of Asian TV shows, if you have ever watched any of that. It's fine and understandable, but has certain mannerisms that are just not usually seen in common dialogue in English. It also had a few mistakes, although fairly minor. Played it through on my Steam Deck with no issues or bugs whatsoever.
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Online players
32
Developer
OMEGAMES STUDIO
Publisher
OMEGAMES STUDIO,
NPC Entertainment
Release
30 Jan 2024
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