The Shell Part I: Inferno

Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.

The Shell Part I: Inferno is a visual novel, detective and mystery game developed by Innocent Grey and published by Shiravune.
Released on July 27th 2023 is available only on Windows in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 819 reviews of which 756 were positive and 63 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 11.70€ on Steam and has a 40% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Shell Part I: Inferno into these genres:

Visual Novel Detective Mystery Choices Matter Romance Psychological Horror Atmospheric Dark Retro Multiple Endings Adventure Gore Cinematic Drama Choose Your Own Adventure Anime Text-Based Singleplayer 2D Story Rich

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: intel Core i series
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: PCM (DirectSound support)

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

Good game, amazing story but I'll be honest... it was a pain to get the 'true ending'. I would've prefered, if the game itself has a timeline feature or something along those lines present in the 'Zero Escape series'. Not a big fan of having to use a guide to reach the true ending because god forbid I missed to click on a single spot for the third time after having to click somewhere entirely different during the investigation sections.

July 2024

Never before have I loved anyone. For I know the terror of being loved by another. Thus, I resolved to never fall in love. Yes, I swore as much to myself. But then, you changed everything. Canto - XII

June 2024

Adult content aside, this is an outstanding detective story with superb musical scores. It has many gruesome and shocking revelations but also genuinely heart touching moments to offer. Highly recommended even at full price.

May 2024

One of the most vile VNs I have ever played, and I have played many horror VNs. Highly recommend this if you like detective, mystery, and psychological horror stuff, and can deal with gruesome shit. I had absolutely no interest in the H scenes, however I did end up downloading the patch because, along with the H scenes, the gore was heavily censored, making crime scenes difficult to examine, so I recommend downloading it from Shiravune's website.

March 2024

As someone with zero interest in the 'Adult' scenes, I still highly recommend everyone that wants to play this seeks out and downloads the 18+ patch. Thankfully the jarring sex scenes are less than 1% of the story and you get the benefit of actually seeing the corpses in the investigation scene - vital in knowing where to click your mouse - instead of essentially silhouettes. Great story. Very dark. Voice acting was great, music was enjoyable, dialogue was very natural and engaging throughout. Looking forward to Part 2.

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-40% 19.50€ 11.70€

8.7

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Developer

Innocent Grey

Publisher

Shiravune

Release 27 Jul 2023

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